Just to offer another view about international students…
I’m a US citizen. A number of my roommates and close friends have been international students, but obviously I still have a very different experience
Finding internships and jobs is extremely difficult for int’l students. I think this is less because NU can’t provide the resources and more because the companies are simply much less willing to hire international students (though, likely somewhere in the middle). I think a lot of the highly desirable campus orgs that ivyleaguefan may be referring to are generally very competitive, even for Americans. NU could always do a better job, and it’s pretty crappy that career services said to accept that it’s impossible for an int’l student to find a job. There is an office for int’l students, but I think their help is limited (tax returns, and work eligibility). They also organize International Student Orientation to help students adjust to a new country/customs (I’ve heard good things) as well as foster a community.
NU is tremendously expensive and international student aid is almost nonexistent, and there’s the rare external grant. But there are many happily adjusted and not abundantly wealthy int’ls here. A handful of my friends are only here because of partial or full grants from their home countries or institutions, and very few have pre-arranged jobs. I know someone with no connections who got work at IBM after freshman year, but she works tremendously hard, and was undoubtedly a standout candidate.
This is not to invalidate ivyleaguefan’s experiences, but just to offer a counterpoint that the campus culture isn’t necessarily hostile towards international students, and experiences greatly vary, but I think that’s the case for most students as well. And tuition seems to be a recurring problem and perhaps especially relevant since international students may have much a lower ROI if he/she had to return to home country that may have lower wages.