Reply #2: don't know [View All]

I can't find the breakdown of rejected US citizens versus foreign applicants but given the fact that graduate applications cost at least $100 bucks, you must take the GRE, get recommendations and the minimum GPA and other requirements are already known...I doubt that there are that many out of bounds applications. These are people who already have a BS degree so those rejection rates while they claim to have a shortage seem very out of line.

People also are not going into STEM because they know it's a target for labor arbitrage, offshore outsourcing,
so who wants to study their ass off and go into massive debt to have their difficult careers cut short at age 35?

But, the numbers are still significant, I mean rejecting 80% of all graduate school applications you know there are qualified people, qualified Americans in that rejection pile...it's just too damn high in terms of overall rejection numbers. I'd really like to see the entire breakdown myself but I couldn't find it.