pros and cons of being an international applicant?

International Students
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<p>Colleges limit the number of foreign students from each country to maximize international diversity (i.e they’d rather have a 100 students from 30 different countries, rather than 100 students from 3 different countries), so it is advantageous to be from an under-represented country, like Burkina Faso or Lichtenstein. If you are applying from China, India or SKorea, you are competing against your countrymen in a very crowded field.</p>

<p>FYI: stats on international students
<a href=“​Open Doors | IIE - The Power of International Education”>http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;