<p>Also, does accent improve? mine is pretty bad</p>
<p>I have indeed heard that some international students like to hang out in packs of their own kin, but I doubt it’s that common.</p>
<p>Some universities even group international students together in the dorms. But again that depends on the university. </p>
<p>The best answer is probably no. Who hangs out with whom depends entirely on you and people will surely not ignore you for being international so I see no reason why any international student would seclude themselves from the rest. If anything, there might be some foreign student seminars where you’ll meet other international students.</p>
<p>Accent improves with practice, so it depends on how much you push out of your comfort zone and embrace the ‘culture’.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the college, the size of the international community, and the individual student.</p>
<p>I go to a small college with about 5% international, so there aren’t even that many intls to begin with. I didn’t fall into the intl clique to begin with, so my friends are all American. On the other hand I know my friend at Stanford hangs out with significantly more intls than I do.</p>
<p>At my college a lot of the foreign students hang out together.</p>
<p>There are relatively few foreigners in the town, and they all seem to know each other. I suppose they have quite a lot in common with each other (experience of moving overseas, likely to be more interesting+cosmopolitan, problems with certain college offices).</p>
<p>Even the most interesting American students are not likely to have lived abroad for example (and no, studying abroad where everything is arranged by your college doesn’t count, direct enrollment in foreign college and finding your own place to live does), so they can’t relate to a lot of things the foreigners have in common.</p>