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To: Amy J who wrote (181565)	1/26/2004 12:06:58 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574326

"But what happens when your supply is cut off by 65%." That is a problem that will fix itself. There have been a lot of ineffective security measures that have been put into place, the ones affecting the foreign students are part of it. There already is a big push to change the situation, university presidents started moving on that almost immediately. And there are apparently lots of ways around the regulations even now, in my department our numbers haven't declined since the regulations went in place. At the grad level, white guys like me, much less Americans, are a minority in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and EE. I can't speak for other schools, but I do know our Administration is very active in getting waivers for the foreign students. We are in Bryan/College Station, TX and my wife and I are attending Texas A&M. Before we moved here we surveyed the available schools and Saint Michael's stood out. st-michaels-academy.org We were transitioning our kids from homeschooling to regular schools and this seemed to be our best choice.

To: Amy J who wrote (181565)	1/26/2004 10:40:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574326

combjelly, RE: "Our top universities are competitive (which is what I've been saying all along.) Not our lower school systems. Not only just our top universities, you have to get fairly low on the university rating before a lot of the non-American universities start to show up. Oh there are some, like Oxford and Cambridge, but American universities as a whole do quite well. Which is one reason I don't get all that worked up about how badly the lower schools do, it seems like those that go beyond the lower schools do ok." Amy, I wonder if the lower schools may not be as bad as their rep suggests. Either there are kids who can adapt very quickly when they hit college, or the lower schools are doing something right. ted