<p>I was wondering whether international students get any advantage when getting into grad school if they did their undergraduate in the US, or are they just classified as "international student", with all other international students, and thus have a lower chance of getting in than an american student in grad schools?</p>
<p>Generally, chances for intls with an undergrad degree from the US are better than chances for intls who did their undergrad overseas but worse than for American kids.
It also depends on the grad school you want to get into. Getting into a liberal arts grad program should work out fine while med school admission might be a problem (unless you can pay $60K out of pocket for 4 consecutive years).</p>
<p>Considering that the proportion of US students/non-US students is often 50/50, I don't think the difference is that large.</p>
<p>Perhaps because federal aid isn't an issue for international students in grad programs (after all, they can have you pay the tuition off through TA work) there isn't as big of a concern that we'd be unable to pay and keep paying throughout the entire program. Just a thought.</p>
<p>what? aw5k are you sure about that proportion of 50/50 ? is it really like that in the best grad schools?</p>
<p>not exactly 50/50. But still quite a large percentage. For instance, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in DC, international students account for over 40% of the student population.</p>
<p>Jimmy, referring to a program with an international focus does not really support your point...</p>
<p>I've googled a bit and found some numbers on my own:</p>
<p>Statistic departments:
Columbia: 49% intl
Cornell: 46%
LeHigh: 30%
UCLA: 42%
Yale: 74% (!!!)</p>
<p>Some history departments in contrast:
American University: 6%
BU: 7%
LeHigh: 4%
Stanford: 34%
UCLA: 13%
Yale: 15%</p>
<p>Law Schools:
Columbia: 5%
Cornell: 7%
Harvard: 4%
Stanford: 3%
Yale: 4%</p>
<p>And finally med schools:
Brown: 4%
Dartmouth: 8%
Harvard: 6%
UCLA: 1%
UPenn: 1%</p>
<p>I would expect to find a large percentage of internationals in all science-related fields and business and not so many in most other fields.</p>
<p>I would also guess that grad schools usually welcome international students educated abroad because they are better prepared than most American undergrads (for example, I can get an MA in math from BMC for taking exactly the same classes as the minimum requirement for a BA in Germany)</p>
<p>Btw, would you have guessed that history grad programs are generally much more selective than statistics?</p>
<p>Oh I forgot to mention, SAIS is a main source of employees for the State Department.</p>