Re:The international student bait-and-switch
by koheripbal on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:54AM
(#23831969)
Will it really reduce student numbers? There are usually more than enough Americans on the wait list for US schools.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:The international student bait-and-switch
by adchari on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:25PM
(#23833920)
US schools can't exactly support all those American students without income, and international students are that source of income.
My university (UIUC) heavily relies on international student tuition to provide facilities, pay teachers, and give financial support to students who need it, despite the fact that it's a public university; they simply don't get enough funding from the state.
Waitlists are based on state funding in many ways, and international students don't take up that funding allotment, and in many ways increase the number of subsidized students.
If it's a place like stanford which hasn't increase it admission count much since the 1960s, that is a completely different issue.