美国名校教授解释为什么拒绝中国学生的博士入学申请

密歇根大学教授拒绝清华尖子生博士入学的原因

一封密歇根大学教授给清华大学博士申请者的拒绝信，中国学生信任崩溃！原文刊登在一个揭露中国学术丑闻的网站上，该网站已被中国防火墙屏蔽。In a recent post on Nature's The Sceptical Chymist I discussed a bit in the comment field about the deficiency of Chinese PhD, with other commenters, where we talked about the lack of senses of safety, weak instrumental operation, and poor spoken English (please refer to that post for detail). From then on I started to remember more rumors I had heard about Chinese graduate students, both MS- and PhD- ones. Once there was a letter from 'a professor majored in ME, U OF Michigan, US' posted on (a website disclosing/fabricating academic scandals in China which is blocked by GFW), which was spread nationwide among BBS fora:

让我们来看看这份密歇根大学教授的来信吧。

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chinese PhD - A Problem Child?

Dear xxx:

I would like to inform you of the situation relevant to Chinese graduate students here, at least at our department, which makes it very difficult for us to accept graduate students from China in the future.

Over about one year period, we have had 6 Chinese Ph.D. students quit their RAship and Ph.D. studies. The reason for them to leave was not that they could not continue, it was rather because they want to have a job now (a higher salary, with a hope that the companies will apply for their green card status). They came with thier promises to pursue their Ph.D. degrees, we paid tuition for them to take courses for their Master degree, and we taught and helped them in their research capabilities. Once they got their M.S. degree in Mechanical Engeering, because of the excellent job market in the U.S. at this time, it is relatively easy for them to find a job. In a way we felt that we were used as a step for those Chinese students to come here, and get their master's degree, then get their jobs. We pay approximately $45-50 K/year for each Ph.D. student, including the tuition, health insurance, various fees, lab and computer fees, and monthly salary, we also put a lot of time and efforts for them. They (most of them) also did good research work as assistants. However, we don't get credit because we don't produce PH.D's, which is one of our major purposes as an institution of high education. On the other hand, they have their particular interests which are also understandable, for example, financial pressure, and wishes

to have their green card applications on the way a sap.

This situation also happened to my Chinese Ph.D.student. He is very talented and did a