65% of international students more likely to choose US if Clinton wins

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In the final days of the US presidential campaign, another student survey has been released that shows over 65% of prospective international students would be wary of studying in the US if Donald Trump were to be elected on November 8. Carried out by Seattle-based Study in the USA, a Department of Commerce partner that connects international students with universities and colleges in the US, the study surveyed over 1,000 students from 130 countries from October 14 to this week.

Students were asked to share their nationality, and answer: whether the election affects them; if Donald Trump becomes president, would they more be or less likely to study in the US; and if Hillary Clinton became president, would they be more or less likely to study in the US. Out of 975 respondents, 639 said they would be more likely to study in the US if Clinton is elected and less likely if Trump is elected. Only 91 students said they would be more likely to go to the US if Trump is elected and less likely if his opponent wins. The results reinforce concerns among the international education community that Trump’s anti-migrant stance is impacting study interest.

Jennifer Privette, Study in the USA’s editor and assistant publisher, told The PIE News that in designing the survey, she had wanted to see if “the polarisation this election caused in the US” is reflected overseas and how closely the world is watching the US election. “I also wanted to know if it would affect students’ desire to come study in the United States. International students contribute $30.5bn to the US economy and support 373,000 jobs in the USA,” she said.

The survey was sent to students through the Study in the USA network and received an overwhelming 96% response rate. Countries with the highest volume of respondents were Brazil, Mexico, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Respondents were also allowed to leave comments in the survey. A 17 year-old mixed-race woman from South Africa said she is skeptical about pursuing study in the US if Trump wins the election because of “very explicit racist remarks” he has made during the election cycle. “I would not feel comfortable living in a country that is run by a man who seems to hate me and discriminates me just because of my ethnicity,” she said.

http://thepienews.com/news/65-international-students-more-likely-study-us-hillary-clinton-wins/

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1. What's not said.

1. Regardless of who wins, what they want to do will be checked by the courts and congress. Those who think Obama can do all sorts of feats with a stroke of a pen entirely legally are likely to think Trump could do likewise. Much of the obstruction and headwind Obama has run into isn't personal but structural. When little changes, little else will change.

Those for whom having somebody say they dislike them = physical violence? Oh. Well, then. They've confused speech and acts, words and reality, and live in a socially constructed world that must conform to them. They can socially construct their own degree program, successfully complete it magna cum loud (because anything less would be discrimination), and then proceed to colonize other worlds in their reality. My point is simple in this regard: We take offense sometimes when none is given, but even when offense is given we act like it's more than just our emotional reaction but something real and palpable. "I was literally killed by his words" is purely fictional, unless it's a ghost or zombie speaking. Or Dumbledore from beyond the grave. If I let every offense derail me, I'd still probably be in elementary school.

2. The article doesn't say there'd be a 65% reduction in admissions. "Less likely" =/= "not applying." Whatever the vaunted anecdata may say. Perhaps there'd be a reduction in quality. Perhaps not, since most of the time the quality that's important is at the graduate level and many research-related degree-programs attract not because of the made in US sticker" but because Dr. So-and-So is with the program. Perhaps there'd be a small reduction in quantity. But demand outstrips supply, and, to be honest, for many students it's basically a way to milk them for money--they go to a 2nd tier school and get to study in the US, but they're no more employable.

I've never understood apocalyptic literature. Every few years the world's coming to an end, either on the right or on the left, and oddly it has an eerily post-apocalypsis appearance very similar to its pre-apocalypsis state.

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2. Wow.

Apocalyptic literature?

Its just a survey.