<p>I've been constantly hearing that being a domestic student is beneficial because it's less competitive and you have more chances for scholarship. Is that true? For most colleges?</p>
<p>Also I am asian and I have been attending an american school in asia. The only reason why I am counted as domestic is because I have a U.S. citizenship. I’m asian american. </p>
<p>If you’re an American citizen, you don’t have anything to worry about. </p>
<p>@viphan
hmm? becuz of the increase in admission chance?</p>
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Yes. For example, MIT:
If you do the math: 3.75% admission rate for international students. See <a href=“International applicants | MIT Admissions”>http://mitadmissions.org/apply/international/howto</a></p>
<p>@4kidsdad what about schools like UC’s and other Ivies? Do they have a similar trend? thx for the info!</p>
<p>@pringles97: NONE of the UCs are “Ivies.” The Ivy League is ONLY an intercollegiate athletic conference, whose membership includes: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton and Penn. </p>
<p>I can’t think of a single college with a higher acceptance rate for international students than for American citizens, or one that has anything close to half internationals.</p>
<p>Does one exist?</p>
<p>@OHMomof2 – well, if you expand your population to include schools that are located outside of the United States, the advantage for being an American citizen may dematerialize depending on the country as well as depending on the individual.</p>
<p>If you focus on U.S. schools only, though, then it’s rather obvious that international students have a harder time. For instance, most schools are need-blind for U.S. citizens but not for international students. International students also have to jump through more hoops such as the TOEFL and the certification of finances than a domestic student does.</p>
<p>There is especially a problem with government-funded schools (such as the UC or most other colleges that have the name of a state with them, NYU excepted!) for internationals since many of them have a mandate that legally requires them to preference students from inside the state. </p>
<p>Apart from that though, international students may have one advantage – IF they are full pay (either parents money or sponsored by a foreign government) they might have a slightly better advantage than the rest of the international student pool and possibly some domestic students who aren’t. It’s not something I would rely on though since as @OhMom2 points out the acceptance rates for international students are always much lower than for U.S. citizens at pretty much every U.S. based college.</p>
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<p>I assumed OP was asking about US schools, if I was mistaken, apologies.</p>
<p>The only group of foreign students who would have a higher rate of admission at any US school than US students would be developmentals, but they aren’t exactly playing by the same rules. How many there are of those is I’m sure a closely guarded secret.</p>
<p>I think the UC rate is about the same, although the numbers of domestic and instate students are much larger. But I don’t feel like looking it up. Why pringles? Does it mean it is easy to get in? no. Just not as small numbers as international student admit in raw numbers and percentile.</p>
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But they’re getting in bcs they are mega-wealthy, not bcs they are int’l. I doubt foreign development cases have a higher admit rate than domestic development cases.</p>
<p>@TopTier
I meant UC’s and Ivies… sry for the confusion ofc they’re not part of the ivies </p>
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<p>Let’s be honest, it’s hard to beat 100%. If you don’t get in, you (or more specifically, your parents) aren’t “developmental” enough.</p>
<p>Foreign development cases definitely are not 100% admit; otherwise, u wouldn’t end up w juicy lawsuits like this:
<a href=“http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1950700”>http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1950700</a></p>
<p>Shortly, yes. </p>