Summary: Non-Californian students pay $23,000 more per year than Californian students, generating $600 million per year for the financially-strapped UC (University of California) system. UC is proposing to cap the number of out-of-state students at UC Berkeley and UCLA at 30% (its current level); no caps at other campuses. The total number of Californian students in the UC system will not increase; UC can't afford to admit more.
I think part of the problem is that the UCs are in a budget crunch and they were using out-of-state and international students to make up the shortfall. Supposedly, they're backing away from this strategy because it's starting to piss off the Legislature. People are complaining to their representatives because their kids aren't getting admitted, yet the number of out-of-state students keeps increasing. For me, the more annoying part is the fact that they're coming in with McLarens, Ferraris and Ashton Martins, and give off a level of amazing entitlement.
Nice to see another anteater, though!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/01/...
Is there no such procedure at US institutions?
Think of each university in the US has having its own culture and way of doing things. Many universities certainly use best practices, but there are no federal regulations on such things as test identification.
Note that not every American has state-issued photo ID, especially among the poor.
Basically, the stereotype that all <insert group> look alike does happen, NOT because they do look alike, but because to someone who does not know members of that group, their facial recognition system (mental schema) are not developed enough to tell people apart.
Think of it like if you trained a neural network to do facial identification by only giving it white people. Compared to a near identical network where the only difference was that it was trained on a cross section of all of earth's people, which would you expect to do a better job?
Strangely enough, the Chemistry Department was better at recognizing me than my own Comp Sci Department. Perhaps it was because my major stood out on the class ranking printouts. In one course, the profs gave out a new CRC Manual as a prize to the top scorer in the class, and they were lucky Sujata Bhatia beat me, because it might have been embarrassing to the department otherwise. Maybe lucky isn't the right word--the lady had mad skills with a molecule.
I suppose it would have been theoretically possible for me to have been impersonating another student the entire time I was at university, but so long as I answered to the same name during lectures and labs as I wrote on the test, and that name was paid up on tuition according to the bursar, that was pretty much all the verification that was needed.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-s-vantage...
Even if these lazy Chinese kids' rich parents are subsidizing the hard-working Americans' education? (You can bet a Chinese billionaire's paying the full tuition without financial aid.)
Taxpayers are mostly the ones doing the student loan subsidizing. Whether the loans are funded through the Treasury or semi-indirectly via the Fed, it overwhelmingly comes out of US taxpayer pockets one way or another.
Why do you say it's a finite system?
personally i don't see much of a difference. i know plenty of both types and they're basically the same except for skin color.
And it WORKED! People really went to Cal or Davis or Chico or Bakersfield and made it out of poverty. All because the tuition was cheap and the plan worked. And California became what it is today. Silicon Valley, Hollywood, the Salinas agriculture sphere, Napa Valley, the dairy and forestry, all these places exist in California in some way due to the success of the master plan. The UCs are THE Jewel of The West's crown because the people of California put their money where their mouth was. They believed that education was the way to good living for their children. Assemblywoman Dorothy Donahoe, for whom the Master Plan bill was named, believed in the children of California. She was a person that planted trees whose shade she knew she would never sit in, and she did for her love of the people of California. And California grew mighty for those sacrifices. The UCs are THE BEST universities that have ever existed, by nearly any measure. The people of California, for decades and generations, paid into this with their taxes and knew it was good.
And now, now we have the scions of the Pacific Rim are cheating and buying their way into these places. They are taking the seats from hard working sons and daughters of farmers and loggers, dentists and doctors, mechanics and architects. And they flaunt their wealth! They don't care that the janitors who dream that their daughters will attend Santa Cruz and UCLA see them do doughnuts in Lambos.
The influx of wealth strikes at the core of the Master Plan and the hopes and dreams of the people of California. The UCs are seen as just another playground for the elite in this way (not strictly true yet). But for some reason the people of California are stuck footing some of the bill.
[0]http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1119
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Master_Plan_for_Hig...
they also make up a tiny percentage of the overall student body. not that anyone gives a shit about that, because asian == foreign to most people.
2. I used to be uhh a foreign national in the U.S (as I still am), and assumed it was a known fact that Chinese nationals often buy their way through college. Somewhat related: Northeastern and their special- Chinese-student program that gives 4-year US degrees with 0 knowledge of English.
3. It is not necessarily something to complain about, as long as it doesn't COMPLETE dilute the value of the degrees concerned. AFAIK, Chinese students (NOT Chinese American, mind) are the only students who will often pay 100% of the feels, with no request for scholarships. So to look at it the other way, you're subsidizing smarter students by taking in slightly less smart students (tbh, most Chinese students are extremely competitive, so we shouldn't be generalizing.)
That kind of thing is very hard to acknowledge in the USA, even if true. It strikes close to past civil rights struggles.
And diluting the value of that degree at the same time by graduating not learning anything.