<p>Just a curious question. Does being an international hurt your chances of getting accepted into an undergrad? For example if an individual has been living in this country for more than a decade, yet he does not have a green card or some important paperwork to be considered an international does this affect admission?</p>
<p>Does he need financial aid?</p>
<p>If No, then being international but with a US education will probably mean that he’s considered right along with the full-pay domestic students.</p>
<p>If Yes, then he needs to find out if his state of residence will consider him in-state for tuition and fees based on his years of residence and graduation from a US high school. If the answer to that question is No, then he will have to get in that long, long, long, long line of folks competing for that very small pot of financial aid money designated for international students at whatever colleges/universities he applies to.</p>
<p>Depending on his current visa status, he may need to convert to an F-1, J-1, or M-1 visa in order to study at the college level. Even if it is not strictly necessary to convert to another visa status, he might choose to do so because of the possibility of working part-time in that status.</p>
<p>Also, some colleges actively want to court internationals (usually because they pay full freight). For the tippy top colleges, ridiculous numbers of internationals apply so the competition is crazy and insane.</p>