<p>People should be reminded that those "low tuition" advantages are for California residents or US citizens, who have been for so long paying their taxes which ended up being used toward schools like Berkeley so that these public institutions could be run.</p>
<p>By the way, at $53,923 per year for an international student, you would have to pay more than if you'd attended Cornell, which is by far the most expensive Ivy and cost $50,900 in the 2009-2010 year.</p>
<p>NYU, along with University of Chicago, is probably the most expensive school in the US. My point was that since Berkeley is so widely known to be the cheaper school between good schools, cost, on the contrary, actually shouldn’t matter to international students like us when we choose between say, Berkeley and Cornell.</p>
<p>You are comparing the full cost of attendance at Berkeley (including health insurance, travel expenses, books, etc) to tuition, room and board only at other schools. That’s comparing apples to oranges. Tuition, room and board only:</p>
<p>That’s kinda true…Internationals would not want to apply for UCs since they admit most of the Californians and tuition is super low comparing to out-of-state or international students. I guess that’s the C for California in UC means. Luckily I’m a native Californian!</p>
According to that great bastion of journalism, the Huffington Post, Chicago is not among the ten most expensive colleges in the U.S. Just want to defend a fine institution.</p>
<p>Cornell by far the most expensive ivy? They are all very close. It’s never been a secret Berkeley has in state and OOS rates, all state schools do. The good news for intnls is Berkeley accepts 50% of intnl applicants, about twice the percent they accept from in state.</p>
<p>50% is kinda exaggerated, but they have been accepting more international students as of late. probably has to do with the dire financial situation in CA.</p>
<p>Found the most recent numbers. Berkeley admitted 15.7% of its international applicants (1070 out of 6805) for fall 2010. The larger number of admitted international students was cancelled out by a larger number of international applicants. </p>
<p>Not my topic, just got here via search, but FWIW:
Suggest make sure to estimate other living expenses. besides the school, when you prepare your budget. People have to go out now and then, shopping, movies, other entertainment, whatever. It costs a lot more to live in some parts of the country than others, direct school costs aside.</p>
<p>Here’s a calculator, of course this is for a family living there, paying a mortgage, etc, so will not be completely applicable but may give you some ideas; you can change the cities to compare:</p>
<p>From the article you posted :
" Admission offers from UC Berkeley are accepted at a rate that ranges from 20 percent for out-of-state students to 50 percent for international students "
This is completely different to</p>
<p>Quote:
The good news for intnls is Berkeley accepts 50% of intnl applicants</p>
<p>What the article intendeds to explain is that, out of the total international students who are offered admission, only 50% of them will accept the offer and enroll in Berkely. The statistics is pointing to that fact.</p>