So where does the line get drawn? Foreigners with Stanford degrees don't need visas but those else where do? What about MIT? Arizona State?
If you establish an arbitrary boundary, it won't make sense.
If you establish an arbitrary boundary, it won't make sense.
Because how the lottery is structured, anyone who went to an american college for undergrad (4 years) plus two years of OPT, has lower chances than someone who just did a masters degree in an american university (1 year), and equal chances with anyone else in the world.
Anyone who spent first 6 years of their adult life in the US is much more likely to adjust to the american lifestyle than than anyone else.
Half of the students that graduate from my department cannot calculate stoichiometry reliably, and they are a state college, issue a four-year degree and are properly accredited.
As for fitting in, back when when Soviet Russia came apart we had quite a few Russians at my university. They were all academics in their mid-40s and managed extremely well.
1. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/25-us-univ....