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<p>Oh, yes. (And I imagine that this is the substance of interesteddad’s comment too.) But I remember when study in the United States was financially feasible mostly only for graduate students from foreign countries (who mostly get full financial support) rather than for undergraduates from the same countries. Since Yale (which was the first of the world famous colleges in the United States to announce this, several years ago) announced that it was applying need-blind, meeting-100-percent-of-need policies to applicants from around the world, it has become more and more competitive to get in. Princeton and Harvard have found the same. There are great high school students all over the world, and as they gradually hear (and believe) that there are opportunities to study in the States that they can actually afford, they begin to apply to those far away colleges in greater numbers. At the margin, they tend to raise the academic standards for admission.</p>