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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't it be a good thing if the top US schools educated and prepared more US students?  Is what's happening at harvard a blessing in disguise?

Maybe the government should limit the number of international students at all top schools.  Getting in and the cost of attending is just too much.

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International students are a major source of funding. They are almost all full pay (sometimes at higher rates than Americans) so they subsidize financial aid as well as their programs of study.

If the government were paying for universities - as it could and arguably should, so that everyone could have a low-cost or free education - then maybe we could talk about it. But as it is, limiting international students would just reduce what the university can afford to do for Americans. [/quote]

I always love this argument - the rich foreigners are "full pay" - as if full pay is a good thing given the outrageous cost of a college education in the US.  This is how you people get around admitting the middle class kids - just admit a few poor students and mix them in with the elitist snobs that can afford "full pay" and you're good![/quote]

The “foreign students subsidize US students”talking point is so funny because it is basically these schools admitting that “need blind” and “meets full need” is all BS. They can afford to be “need blind” for the 3/4 of their students from the US because they aren’t need blind for the 25% that come from somewhere else. In other words, they aren’t really need blind. The ridiculous thing is that there are plenty of US students who would happily fill the 25% if the school not being need blind is part of the deal. Of course, most of those students wouldn’t make the colleges’ diversity stats look better, which is the real reason they wouldn’t do it. [/quote]

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