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To: sylvester80 who wrote (103318)	3/4/2005 8:58:33 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Respond to of 793840

Wow - that must mean we are graduating more Americans. What a loss for the rest of the world.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (103318)	3/5/2005 5:08:04 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28 percent last year. Foreign student enrollment on all levels fell for the first time in three decades,... [ED: This is EXTREMELY important and I find it very troubling that nobody is talking about it.] Perhaps nobody is talking about it because it is not substantially true and the reasons for any reduction are quite valid. INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ENROLLMENT New International Undergraduate Student Enrollment 431 institutions responded to this question about new international undergraduate enrollments at U.S. higher education institutions for fall 2004, as compared to fall 2003 · 38% reported a decline, 35% reported an increase, and 24% reported level enrollments. · Of the responding Doctoral/Research institutions that each enroll more than 2500 international students (28 institutions), 39% reported declines, 43% reported increases, and 18% reported level enrollments compared to last year. nafsa.org The top reason for decreases as reported by some of the schools was... visa troubles – both delays in issuance and denials. I find that startlingly good news. It means we are weeding out potential troublemakers like the 9/11 terrorists who came here to attend pilot schools and used knowledge learned here to attack us.