Dear American College students: Go to Germany

[Alex K]

I got an all around free education in Germany up to my phd, but also a diploma and masters degree in the US in a rather famous institute. In my american graduate school, most of the top students were from russia, eastern europe in general (e.g. poland, romania, croatia), the netherlands, israel, germany. The best american students were from new yorker jewish families. 80% of professors were from russia, germany, the netherlands, china. The US may still have a handful of top universities, and there is no reason for envy (I'm also a product of that system after all, not ivy league though) but the personell is recruited from elsewhere. It's not a healthy state the system's in.
The US doesn't effectively train their scientific and technology elite, and I'm not sure why. My High school education was more than decent (and in texas no less), but I was told it was one of the better or the best school in the city academically. Admittedly, my AP physics teacher had some embarassing holes in his knowledge because he was a former petroleum engineer, but he managed to put on a halfway decent science curriculum.
My maths teacher was superb.

But, yes, Americans, come to Germany. Go to Munich or Heidelberg, you dont need to go broke, have a top education and a nice scenery

While the German system is classist in its own way, the US system of tuitions is just absurd.