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Comment by southbound

3 hours ago

When I did my CPT more than a decade ago in an age before the current admissions policies, I had to ensure that the place I was going to work at was a good fit for what I was studying, and there needed to be a written explanation of why it would directly benefit my studies. And it was no joke, I couldn't do an internship for a role not directly in my field of study.

Either Berkeley isn't doing things right, or this is a shakedown. International students are the biggest money-spinners for universities (to the detriment of everything else at this point, from what I hear), and ICE is going for the jugular.

> International students are the biggest money-spinners for universities

That is exactly the problem.

Stanford University owns 7 private jets for “administrative use”. The fuck?

Perhaps cut the free money from international students, then universities can finally focus on producing research, or god forbid, educating students.