@panpacific , you’re right. Many schools actually have someone act almost like an “agent” that they use to solicit full-pay international students. It’s part of the way that the school can then “afford” to have students on FA. (For those of you who haven’t listened to the “Food Fight” episode in Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast series, I highly recommend it. It’s really relevant to BS as well.) Many of the international families who can afford BS are wealthy in a way that is difficult for most Americans to fathom!
This. The sheikh’s son a year ahead of ChoatieKid made Warren Buffet look poor.