<p>i am an Asian male but from India and not CA. anyway, being ORM and applying for aid as an international does make a lot of difference…about the full scholarship schools, my dad tells me precisely the same thing but I am hard pressed to make him understand that there are amazing schools in India too so if i were to leave my family and shift to a new country altogether, it would have to be to a top school else not…i dunno how many people concur with this but this is the way i look at things…</p>