<p>hey kiddos, i need a favor.</p>
<p>is there anywhere i can find a list of international student percentages in a college for many schools? also a list of acceptance rates would be great too!</p>
<p>thanks a lot! this is urgent!</p>
<p>urgent for what? Just keep your grades as high as possible, score high on SATs, with one of a kind ECs and essays, and you'll be fine. And stop calling us kiddos, makes me feel like a three year old...</p>
<p>try googling (college name)+common data set I think this is the best info you can access on the web, it is quite u.s. centric though</p>
<p>International acceptance rates are pretty hard to find.. But I do know that U North Carolina Chapel Hill's accptance rate for intels is 5%. And MIT's is slightly under 5%.
If you go on to sites like princetonreview.com or anywhere else that has college data, you will be able to percentage of intels in the school.</p>
<p>i acceptence rate for intels is usually half or even lower than the normal acceptance rate. 5-10% for the top schools</p>
<p>Peterson's lists the number of international students that apply, get accepted, and end up enrolling for a lot of (but not all) schools.</p>
<p>first of all, well jimmy, you're kinda acting like one...</p>
<p>anyway (sorry had to do that), thanks for the replies! i did the trick with the common data set search and i found stuff for a few schools so thanks a lot!</p>
<p>also, b@r!um, where on peterson's can i find this? im assuming you mean the website. i looked around but i couldnt find anything. thanks tho!</p>
<p>now that u got the info, why not just post it in this thread? givin is sweeter than takin, ^^</p>
<p>here ya go</p>
<p>a lot of them dont have specific info about international acceptances tho...</p>
<p>I emailed MIT a couple of months ago with some query about International admissions. In their reply they said that they get over 2500 international applicants but can only admit 100.
4%</p>
<p>holy crap! is it that bad for all other schools?</p>
<p>When I was in high school, the princetonreview or petersons- I can't remember- had a guidebook for international students and it had percentages for all major colleges.top schools werre between 5-10%</p>
<p>dude, 4 isnt that bad... yale had an admit rate of less than 1 for my country, and we had a few hundred applicants, how about that?</p>
<p>^ Thats only in one country. Admission rates overall for internationals will be higher than that of a particular country generally.</p>
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also, b@r!um, where on peterson's can i find this? im assuming you mean the website. i looked around but i couldnt find anything.
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You need the college search for international students.
Here's the link: <a href="http://www.petersons.com/acuus/code/psector.asp?sponsor=&path=ug.fas.acuus%5B/url%5D">http://www.petersons.com/acuus/code/psector.asp?sponsor=&path=ug.fas.acuus</a>
When you want to return to the search function after looking at a certain school's profile, don't click on "College Search" but on "International Students" at the top of the page.
But as I said earlier, the information is not provided for some schools including most top-ranked ones (except for MIT and Stanford).</p>
<p>the numbers seem to be really high... I guess that included internationals who live in the US, too. It would be interesting to find some numbers for "real" internationals who also live in their actual country. Also Stanford favors ppl internationals who can pay for their education... most internationals, however, need aid... so I guess I was pretty close (1%) when it comes to "real" internationals who also apply for aid... of course, HYP don't care about your fin status, but oh well, there will be more ppl applying to those schools</p>
<p>i dont know, this confuses me. ive been looking at the numbers and it all seems like international applicants face much lower admissions rates. </p>
<p>then why is everyone always that its good to be an intl. student???</p>
<p>Well, it's good to be an international as long as you 1. do NOT need fin aid 2. apply not to top schools 3. you are neither Indian nor Chinese</p>
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It would be interesting to find some numbers for "real" internationals who also live in their actual country.
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I don't think that really matters.
If you are neither a US citizen nor a permanent resident, you don't qualify for federal fin aid and that's all there is about the "international" status. And besides, what does one need to do in your opinion to be considered an international living in the US? If I spend my senior year in high school living with a host family as an exchange student, get my high school diploma and decide to stay in the US for college, should I be in a different pool as if I spend my junior year in the US, go back home for senior year and then come back for college?
You could only differentiate between intls who have grown up abroad and intsl who have grown up in the US, but that differentiation seems much too laborious and does not serve any practical purposes.</p>
<p>well, apparently, if u live in the US, u will have lots and lots of oppurtunitites, not just EC wise but also awards wise and so on... u'll be in a better shape just becos u live in the states... I'm interested in seeing numbers for "real" internationals, becos, wut a suprise, I am one... living in the US gives a pretty huge advantage...</p>