international student percentages!

b_r_um
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:49:06 +0000

It would be interesting to find some numbers for “real” internationals who also live in their actual country.

I don’t think that really matters.
If you are neither a US citizen nor a permanent resident, you don’t qualify for federal fin aid and that’s all there is about the “international” status. And besides, what does one need to do in your opinion to be considered an international living in the US? If I spend my senior year in high school living with a host family as an exchange student, get my high school diploma and decide to stay in the US for college, should I be in a different pool as if I spend my junior year in the US, go back home for senior year and then come back for college?
You could only differentiate between intls who have grown up abroad and intsl who have grown up in the US, but that differentiation seems much too laborious and does not serve any practical purposes.