Applying as an International Applicant

Graduate School
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<p>Do admission committees at top US schools tend to evaluate international applicants harder than they do US applicants (in terms of GPA, research, SOP, GRE, etc.), or are non-US students judged equally as US students? Or, is it just that non-US students generally have worse GPA, research experience, SOP, etc. than US students? What can explain low percentage of non-US students at these US schools? When I apply to US schools as a Canadian, will I be at any disadvantage just because I'm a non-US student?</p>

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<p>From the "UNDERGRADUATE IN CANADA..." thread.</p>

<p>ysk1 and SlantNGo, </p>

<p>The admissions committees with which I am most familiar (most of these are in humanities programs in both private and public universities) most emphatically do NOT hold international applicants to a higher standard than US applicants. </p>

<p>While there are some departments (particularly in the hard sciences) that (because of government grants) must FUND (as opposed to ADMIT) US applicants before others, there are MANY others that have no such strictures.</p>