Are international students at a disadvantage?

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I am from Brazil, where not many students are willing to study in the U.S. I did some research and found out that actually Brazilian students are exclusive to ivy-leagues (other colleges either do not have any brazilian students or have less than 5 of them per year).

I am curious about this because I was just reading an article about the Brazilian government funding study abroad opportunities on a large scale. Do you know if Brazilian students like to go abroad for college too or is it mainly for grad school? </p>

<p>For example, I noticed that 58 of the 62 Brazilian students at Harvard are graduate students - only 4 are undergrads. Other top universities don’t seem to have many Brazilian undergraduates either. There are 4 at Princeton, 12 at Yale, 9 at Cornell, 11 at MIT. Also 7 at Tufts.</p>

<p>Why do you believe that the more than 4,000 Brazilian undergraduate students in the US are concentrated at the Ivies?</p>