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admin September 20th, 2007

Remember the article about Malaysian students’ allowance in the United States is increased 97%? Do you want to know the truth? The truth is, the allowance actually goes down. Not up. They just want to make people happy by saying that the allowance is going up - in fact, it is not.

Why? Before the “increased” allowance, the students who chose on-campus housing receive 60% of the monthly allowance, which is $444.44 a month (and housing paid by sponsor). If sponsor doesn’t pay housing, we would get $740 per month. However, right now, the allowance is as follow:

A rate - $425
B rate - $375
C rate - $325

Can you calculate how much lower is that? None of them ever goes beyond the $444.44.
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