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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of these schools with ultra low acceptance rates are soliciting and getting a lot of (garbage) international applications. This is the dirty secret of admissions and few schools break it out. People would be shocked at what percentage of applications are international now at many schools (think half). A tiny pct of international applicants get in. In some cases domestic applications are not even going up now- the growth is all international. The schools rarely provide this breakdown because it exposes the shambolic nature of the super low acceptance rates. The fact that no one is talking about it shows they are doing a good job distracting us with other explanations like no supplements. INTERNATIONAL is why this is happening![/quote]

No. Please don't insert xenophobia into this discussion. Apart from Ivies and associated universities, the number of international applicants at US colleges is low. The reason is that none of them are well-known outside of the USA! The university with the most international applicants is NYU, because so many people have heard of NYC.

Don't use the word "garbage" and "dirty" when referring to foreigners.

- foreigner.
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While OPs comment is a stretch, it is true that at many LACs, international applicants constitute a big percent of overall applicants. Most LACs don't post data about this, but one of Colby's peer LACs does- Colgate.

38% of Colgate applicants were international. Only 3% were admitted. https://www.colgate.edu/admission-aid/apply/first-year-class-profile

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It’s not a stretch at all. International apps have been growing double digits. Domestic have been flattish.

Here Amherst reveals that some 30 percent of applicants for class of 2022 were international. But that was 5 years ago! So it must be much higher now. 
https://www.amherst.edu/admission/apply/international/enrollment

My comments were not meant to be xenophobic. I don’t care how many international students apply, more or less the same number will be accepted. When I said garbage I just meant they were very unlikely to be accepted - didn’t mean to be insensitive.

Anyone who has an inside look at what is going on with admissions knows international is THE story when it comes to acceptance rates. 
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