<p>The numbers in the graph are taken directly from the Common Data Set filings and/or the historic data supplied by the colleges to the federal IPEDS database.</p>
<p>I would appreciate if you would please stop the personal attacks and the “attitude”. We are just having a conversation here. A little common decency would be nice.</p>
<p>If you read what I wrote, Williams made a big push to increase international aid when Schapiro arrived sometime around 2000. For several decades before that, Williams had lagged behind the top schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Yale in international enrollment. As you can see, they also lagged Swarthmore for several decades.</p>
<p>What I wrote was the Williams has used their aggressive funding (and need-blind marketing) to increase international enrollment. They are currently matching Swarthmore and Amherst in this area, but are spending heavily to do so. Schapiro has already said that ending need-blind for internationals is one of the options on the table for consideration. If either Williams for Amherst backs away from the policy, I believe the other will quickly follow suit. As I pointed out above, international aid at Williams is 20% of the entire aid budget. It’s a major budget item, the kind of expense that could be cut to, for example, presevere linguistics offerings.</p>