Generally, is it harder for an undergrad or grad international applicant?

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<p>Generally, is it harder for an undergrad or grad international applicant?</p>

<p>I'm talking about top schools(top 10 or 20)</p>

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<p>All I know is that there tends to be a higher percentage of international students in an graduate school. Seeing the numbers, I'll have to guess that it's "little" easier for grad international applicants. I might be wrong though..</p>

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<p>Should be easier for grad applicants.</p>

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<p>k thnx, that's what I thought
guess it would make a good plan B</p>

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<p>I am not so sure about that. I lost the link but somewhere it said that Yale grad school has an admission rate around 4%, and that the admission rate of international applicants is still lower than the admission rate of domestic applicants.</p>

<p>Of course overall admission rates don't mean much in grad school because they vary a lot from department to department. It's also a lot easier to be admitted into programs that don't provide funding (e.g. many Master's programs).</p>

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<p>way harder if you apply for FA.</p>

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<p>yeah, thank god money is not a concern for me thanks to my parents(not rich but saved early) so no need for FA</p>

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<p>I've heard that this is not an advantage at top schools, is this true?</p>

<p>EDIT the fact that I don't need FA, that is.</p>

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<p>True. Funding somewhat limits the number of grad students a top school can admit, but more importantly the limit is how many students one professor can (/wants to) work with at a time. Top grad programs in math seem to try to maintain a student:faculty ratio of 2:1. Yale for example only enrolls about 6 new grad students in math every year. Want to venture a guess how many students apply for those 6 spots?</p>

<p>(I am talking about math because I don't really know anything about other disciplines.)</p>