J.D. Vance: ‘A Real Problem’ for Universities When a Spot Is Taken by a Chinese Oligarch Instead of an American

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VANCE: “I think it’s a real problem and it’s something that we’re certainly looking at, Laura. To your point, a lot of these foreign students, most of them pay full freight. And so, sometimes what you have at an elite university, right, like at Columbia or at Harvard, you have a well-qualified middle class American kid from the heartland who doesn’t get a spot in these universities because some Chinese oligarch who’s paying $100,000 a year takes up that spot. So it’s not just bad for national security, it’s bad for the American dream for a lot of kids who want to go to a nice university and can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student. It’s certainly something we’re looking at.”