Foreign College Students Staying Away

Migrants are r-strategists:

Application and acceptance season is underway at America’s colleges and universities. But this year, some institutions of higher learning may see a noticeable dip in attendance from one group purposely choosing to stay home: foreign students.

Applications from international students from countries such as China, India and in particular, the Middle East, are down this year at nearly 40 percent of schools that answered a recent survey by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Educators, recruiters and school officials report that the perception of America has changed for international students, and it just doesn’t seem to be as welcoming a place anymore. Officials point to the Trump administration’s rhetoric surrounding immigration and the issuing of a travel ban as having an effect.

“Yes, we definitely are sounding the warning,” said Melanie Gottlieb, deputy director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, adding, “We would hope that the [Trump] administration would say [to] cool the rhetoric a bit around immigration.”

r-strategists are instinctually programmed to avoid migrating to hostile environments where K-selection might lurk, and they are very cued in on the subtle indicators. If one nation creates an unwelcoming image, the migrants will migrate to other nations which do not appear as unwelcoming.

Note that here, these are not even true migrants. These are students looking for a place to study legally, temporarily. But still the r-strategists among them see the aggression in America and that is it. They’ll head somewhere else.

This is why the embrace of migrants in Europe will be the death of the tourism industry. All those r-strategist tourists are going to realize Europe is no longer safe, and from there you will see Russian and American tourism take off.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because America is a scary intolerant place for migrants these days