International Student Acceptance Rate

Student Lounge International Students
1

Hi,

Does anyone know the acceptance rate for regular decisions for international students for these colleges?
Carnegie Mellon
UNC Chapel Hill
Emory
Washington University at St. Louis
Georgia Tech
Duke
Baylor

Thanks

2

Schools don’t publish a separate rate for international students, but in general the acceptance rates are going to be very low for international students, for two main reasons- first, schools are need-aware for int’l students, so any int’l needing financial aid will face an uphill climb in admissions especially at state schools like UNC chapel hill, and second there are so many qualified domestic applicants applying there are simply going to be very few spots for int’ls- you would need to have very impressive stats.

3

A general rule of thumb that doesn’t always apply but can help is

  • if you’re full pay, roughly the rate of OOS applicants at public universities and need aware universities, half the rate at non need aware universities
  • if you’re not full pay but can pay half of cost of attendance, half the general percentage; the lower your financial contribution the lower your odds, meaning divide by three, four…
  • if you come from an over represented country (= lots of kids from your country try to go to the US, such as Korea, China, India…) it’s harder / if you come from an under represented country (few kids are able or interested in applying, such as Namibia, Azerbaijan, Fiji…) you get a little boost.
4

With a little approximation, for the most selective universities, it is generally close to two times harder. It will probably get worse as number of international applicants increases faster than the number of domestic applicants.

5

I know that MIT has an acceptance rate of around 3% for internationals instead of 8%.
I guess they are all lower.

6

At least a few years ago, it was about as tough for (full-pay) Internationals to get in to UCLA as CA residents and it was actually easier at UCSD:

http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table2.pdf

But yes, general, it’s tougher.

7

Well, I got waitlisted at tech, so there goes any hope of getting in lol: asian male and international applicant is pretty rough.