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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Alighieri who wrote (622515)8/2/2011 12:43:28 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1579994
 
Al, > My son is in a PHD program at UT (Knoxville) and he says that a large share of his co-candidates are foreign, with Chinese making up a large majority...now I suspect that they send their best here, but he also tells me that these kids are really well prepared...

This is the first time you heard of this in academia?

> so our competitors hone up while we "cut pell grants" and republicans want to kill the dept of education...

Schools in Asia typically aren't run like day care centers. They impose pretty high standards on student conduct. Most grade school kids will spend hours after school in libraries studying their asses off for standardized entrance exams.

Although once Asian students get into college, they slack off. Gotta make up for the years of "study study study."

Tenchusatsu
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