<p>I wish Stanford would make it a priority to fund international students too (that is to say, it should go need-blind). It’s not that Stanford can’t afford to… it just doesn’t make it a priority. My friend at Princeton was commenting how she applied SCEA to Princeton simply because it was need-blind and was under the impression that Stanford did not have any aid to offer to internationals, which is untrue. I mean seriously, Stanford spends like $6m on international undergraduate students. Compare this to the tiny Middlebury College, which spends $6m too, and Mount Holyoke College, which spends $15m on international aid. Does this imply that Stanford just does not care as much about international socioeconomic diversity? </p>
<p>That said, Stanford is probably the only school that is uniformly strong across the board, with few or no relative deficiencies in any academic areas.</p>