<p>To tokenadult,</p>
<p>I'm positive the majority of international students that come to the US to study in colleges and universities are not in general poorer than most Americans. In fact, I would guess that the financially average international student is slightly more wealthy than a financially average American student. First of all, internationals do not get any grants to study here, so just deciding to study abroad is something that only wealther internationals will opt to do. Secondly, just arranging to study overseas costs a lot of money in common expenses (flights, phone bills, etc.) and usually the family will have plenty of sources to fund those expenses.</p>