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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is diversity a "plus factor" when applying to a foreign university?  Which foreign universities have affirmative action programs?[/quote]

I doubt it. All schools I am familiar with look and grades and tests only.[/quote]

I find that hard to believe.  How can these schools assemble a diverse environment without some system for leveling the playing field?[/quote]

They are not trying to level the field and they don't care about diversity. They are cheap and everyone can attend for as long as they are a good student. Thats about it.[/quote]

And this is one important factor why social mobility in most European countries is far superior than here in the US, despite all the talk about diversity and such. Show me the deeds, not the blah blah.

"Back in its Horatio Alger days, America was more fluid than Europe. Now it is not. Using one-generation measures of social mobility—how much a father’s relative income influences that of his adult son—America does half as well as Nordic countries, and about the same as Britain and Italy, Europe’s least-mobile places." 
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571417-how-prevent-virtuous-meritocracy-entrenching-itself-top-repairing-rungs

"But many researchers have reached a conclusion that turns conventional wisdom on its head: Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to-rise-from-lower-rungs.html?pagewanted=all[/quote]

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