Should International Students Have An Advantage?

@Synonyms Yes they do give merit scholarship, but it depends on each school.

For example, U Alabama has given me full tuition+extra engineering scholarship. Now I only need to pay only 65$/semester to school(aside off campus housing and my own food)

ASU/UMinnesota-Twin City has international transfer student scholarship.

OSU/U of Oregon has scholarship exclusive for international student.

LSU, while doesn’t specify international scholarship, does give merit scholarships to international students.

However, no need based scholarship is offered, as you said.

Going to the original question, I don’t think international students should have the advantage persay. Colleges are looking for a certain criteria, whether it be looking at domestic or international applicants. If international students are applying to a certain college, they must know what they’re getting themselves into: that these colleges prioritize getting the majority of their seats filled by domestic applicants, and then filling the rest with qualified international applicants that will contribute to the class of xxxx. In terms of advantages, the international student should not have an advantage any more so than the common high school student in America should have an advantage; as long as each one uses the resources given to them, they have a shot. Whether this shot be lower for the international student because of high applicant volume vs low number of acceptances is a sorry fact, but that’s simply how it works because, unfortunately, the schools many applicants want to get into (whether it be MIT, UChicago, Princeton etc.) are located in America and have abysmally low acceptance rates.

@Synonyms wrote

Private institutions get lucrative taxpayer subsidies in the form of non-profit tax-free status, and in the form of federal Pell grants & subsidized non-secured student loans.

@artloversplus @GMTplus7 UNC- a Chapel Hill meets full need.

Yes, but does UNC give admissions reference overall to int’l students over domestic students?

NC state law explicitly states that state schools in NC can have no more than around 17% of OOS students.
I m not sure if that 17% law includes international students, but I think they have even more hurdles than domestic OOS students do.

@CaliCash, does UNC meet full need for internationals? I somewhat doubt it.

@GMTplus7 International students aren’t qualified to the federal Pell grant, last I check, and the student loans for international are usually abysmal compared to the total cost of attending. Back to your original comment, the fairness comes from the fact that the bar is set way higher for international students than for domestic one. Like, a lot higher. So, most of the time, only the cremè de la cremè or the filthy rich got in. I don’t see why you are complaining about getting more of the world’s brain power and money.

@CaliCash Since when??

http://studentaid.unc.edu/faqs/general-faqs/

It does.

I believe the title might be a bit misleading haha. Sorry about that. Think of it as: ‘Is the admission process fair for international students?’

Well, when you put it that way, nobody ever said life was fair.

You do realize that the primary educational responsibility of American colleges and universities is to educate American students, right?

You might as well ask, is the Earth flat?

Of course the admission process is not “fair” to international students. It never intended to be. Every nation should make the education of THEIR OWN students a priority.

No its not fair. And yet, is life fair?
Im not saying this to tou, but some int kids should stop thinking they are entitled to get educations in US colleges like American kids are.

@skieurope My apologies. It’s only for OOS students.