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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums83% Of America's Top High School Science Students Are The Children Of Immigrants
Both family-based and employment-based immigrants were parents of finalists in 2016. In fact, 75% 30 out of 40 of the finalists had parents who worked in America on H-1B visas and later became green card holders and U.S. citizens. That compares to seven children who had both parents born in the United States. the finalists had parents who worked in America on H-1B visas and later became green card holders and U.S. citizens. That compares to seven children who had both parents born in the United States.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2017/03/11/83-of-americas-top-high-school-science-students-are-the-children-of-immigrants/#753564202200
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)People who came to the US with nothing, people who's story in the US began with being shoved into a helicopter, their family crossing the mountains of Iran on foot to escape to Turkey or watching the CIA set their house on fire as they fled in the middle of the night.
No more than a couple weeks after coming into the care of the US government they were in motels and dingy apartments in Orange County and in just a matter of years they were thriving. I always found their success extremely gratifying.
Freethinker65
(9,930 posts)Many wealthier students were being told by their wealthy parents to stay away from the sciences and go into business because that is where the money was. It was primarily about making money. Of course, if you wanted to become a doctor that was ok too...but be a surgeon because they were the highest paid.
Even now I see it around my neighborhood in a suburb of Chicago. If kids have aptitude for science, many wealthier parents pressure their kids to go into engineering instead of, say, chemistry or physics. I understand a parent's concern about wanting their child to be able to support him/her self as an adult, but i feel we are going to have way to many "engineering" graduates.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)along the lines of "when my father told me I could be anything I wanted he really meant I could be an electrical, chemical or mechanical engineer"
Freethinker65
(9,930 posts)progressoid
(49,825 posts)KT2000
(20,544 posts)in immigrants and their children. Who in subsequent generations really believes in the American Dream anymore. Look what tRump voters and the repub politicians have done with it.
marybourg
(12,540 posts)but not one of the 40 finalists. He's 4 generations removed from immigration and definitely the highest performer in any of our generations. Same for his other parent's side.