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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (64753)	5/9/2008 8:41:18 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544367

Very true. Many students fail to get into the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) but they get into Cornell, MIT instead. There is no doubt that the IIT's and some other unversities around the world are competitive with the top US colleges. However, I dont think any other country has as broad or as deep a bench of colleges as we do in the US. Part of that is simply a result of the structure of the education systems. I'm not sure about India, but my understanding is that places like Korea and Japan have comparatively easy college experiences after the hell of high-school. I'm as critical of education in the US as anybody, but we actually do a decent job in higher education. There is a reason that the rest of the world comes to the US for their degrees....or at least they did before the morons in Washington decided to make it harder for them to come into the country. That might be the single issue that enrages me the most. We have the chance to grab the brightest people in the world and we tell them to stay home. Just unbelievably stupid. Slacker