<p>Being an international is almost NEVER an advantage at "prestigious" schools, but for many LACs and schools with low international applicants, it <em>could</em> help.</p>
<p>"Where did you get 6%? Harvard admited 2,074 of 22,796 for Class of 2009 (<a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette...dmissions.html)%5B/url%5D">http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette...dmissions.html)</a>. That's 9.1%. If you're trying to say that 6% is the admit rate for international, you must be a prophet; they NEVER release international applicant acceptance rate."</p>
<p>They do release the stats for internations... For example from this book "Petersons Top colleges" or somthing like that I could dig up from the stats was that in 2000 (its from an old book) the admission rate for international students at harvard was ~5.4%. It'd be lower if you took into account the "Early" Applicants. </p>
<p>I applied as a Korean citizen so I think being an "international" wasn't anything of a "hook" :D</p>