For some more specific context, I’m Asian (hold a Filipino passport but live in Singapore) but am going to an American International school (where the majority of my peers are still considered “domestic” due to most of my grade holding American passports).
In comparison to my peers who though go to my school are not considered “international” like me, is it more difficult for me to be admitted to the same universities (public or private)?
If you are not an American citizen or green card holder admission to top US universities is more difficult. Also very few US universities give financial aid to non citizens/green card holders.
@TomSrOfBoston Why exactly (especially if my peers are considered domestic)?
Your peers are US citizens, you are not. American universities limit the number of international students because their mission is primarily to educate Americans.
Last page here, table UG admits to Washington Sq, you can work out that for the NY campus, domestic admit rate was about 22% and international about 13%. Significantly less, better than many other schools though.
Data about 2 years out of date, when overall admit rate was around 20%.
https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/institutionalResearch/documents/Factsheet.pdf
TomSrofBoston is correct. It is indeed harder for international students to get accepted into American colleges and there are few significant scholarships available to them (plenty of token scholarships available, though, but those won’t come close to covering the full cost of attendance). However, to be fair, Singapore and the Philippines aren’t paying for American students to attend their colleges.
Still, there are planeloads of international students attending American colleges. If you can afford to attend, then apply. Statistically speaking, you won’t find yourself at tippy top college, but there are thousands of colleges that will give you a fantastic education.
I would not expect to be able to start this fall, though, due to the coronavirus. Visa processing is pretty much shut down. Realistically, international students accepted for Fall 2020 should hope for the best, but likely will be starting in the Spring 2121 semester.
@Groundwork2022 fyi this poster already has some excellent admits for this fall, including CMU (computer science) and Michigan.
Thanks SJ2727. I didn’t realize that. Then what’s the problem?
Seems to want to go to NYU or UCLA.
@SJ2727 @Groundwork2022 Yes. Sorry. I want to be in a big city. I know CMU and UMich are both amazing schools, however, environment wise, they are both not anything close to what I wanted.
When I was a kid Pittsburgh was considered to be a dirty city. However, it has cleaned up its act. I have visited it a few times over the years and it is a very attractive city and has been for several decades. Carnegie Mellon is also a superb university for computer science if you can get admitted and if you can afford to attend.
I do not understand what the issue is.
I was very impressed by Pittsburgh and CMU. It seemed there were plenty of opportunities there. Pittsburgh has countless tech companies, so the internship opportunities are plentiful and pretty amazing.
@sushi48 Maybe Pittsburgh isn’t considered a large city in parts of Asia but in the US it’s decently big. Going back to the original question. Yes, it is much harder for international students to be accepted to good US schools because there’s a limited number of spots and lots of applicants. For example, if you look at the common data set of Whitman College, a pretty good but not elite LAC in Washington State, the acceptance rate for domestic students is around 50% but only around 20% for international students.