<p>Is admission to Princeton, or any ivy, more/less competitive for international applicants?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if they have region quotas? For example, maximum x students from africa, y from south america, z from europe per year.</p>
<p>Very succinctly,</p>
<ol>
<li>More competitive</li>
<li>No.</li>
</ol>
<p>Princeton is one of the most financially generous schools for internationals. What do you think?</p>
<p>For countries that send lots of kids to US colleges (China, India, Korea, etc.), the competition is definitely cutthroat. But for someone from small countries with barely anyone studying at Princeton, the diversty factor might be a hook.</p>
<p>Not more “competitive”, necessarily, but admissions is much more difficult from an international perspective. Most countries don’t have the SAT or ACT which makes applications more difficult to evaluate.</p>
<p>^ I agree and disagree. Obviously, non-US applicants have more difficult access to tests, translated rec letters, etc. But what’s more pressing is the pool of applicants is MUCH larger for a limited # of slots than the typical RD domestic applicant. Statistically, this is much more meaningful than the hurdles internationals need to do to apply to US colleges. In all likelihood, they are applying to multiple US or Canadian colleges. But not all US and Cdn colleges have the level of international selectiveness as Pton.</p>