By contrast, at most American universities, there are few to no foreigners getting Ph.D.s in education, cultural studies and history. The evidence clearly demonstrates that the more intellectually challenging a field of study is, the fewer American students. They set admittance quotas against them and create double standards. For example, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's policy is not to exceed 20 percent foreign students in any of its graduate programs. Like other universities, it turns away applications from foreign students whose grades and test scores are higher than their American counterparts.
Enrollment is kept up, and professors employed, by admitting mediocre American students.
Probably not among those on the conservative end of the political spectrum but among liberals, it's an OK thing. Because at the rate it's going, by the year 2007 UCLA will be 80 percent Asian. Neither Clinton's nor Beckel's comments drew fire from America's leftists. In terms of our future, what foreign students are doing and the achievements they're making is not nearly as important as what American students are not doing. Even our brightest students aren't challenged, as evidenced by the fact that far fewer high school students score 1400 to 1600 on the SAT today than during the 1960s.