So this is from a long time ago but it might be of help for others as well as looking back at my own self, so
Disclosure : if you're an international student and not from a wealthy family(and I mean not just upper middle-class, but rich), please apply for scholarship and then attend the highest institution that you gain acceptance to, unless you get accepted to need-blind universities for international students(HYP et cetera). This is because you'll regret having paid such high costs for just a bachelor's degree. In the long term, paying up for law school or MBA is a much more important investment.
I was admitted to Brown in 2005 with an SAT score of 1550(highest math+verbal) or 1520(single highest). My GPA was 3.91 from the best non-science high school in the country, although the A standard for US-bound students was slightly more lenient, taking into account the dual burden of domestic and foreign coursework.
I am an international Asian applicant, but not from China where the majority of applicants are from. The office of institutional affairs lists the 75% percentile SAT scores to be 1540/1600 for the year 2005~2006.
Given that Asians generally score higher than the rest of the applicant pool, I figured that my score would only be average for Asian international students accepted, so that it was unlikely that I would be granted a scholarship. Come think of it however, since Asians make up the bulk(50%) of international students, there was a possibility that more Asians would be given scholarships, especially for higher scorers.
So my question is, are Asian internationals as high scoring in the SAT as Asian Americans?
If so, could I have made it into Brown had I applied for scholarship? Could I have made it into Cornell, for instance, with scholarship?
FYI, One of my alumni made it into Wesleyan with full scholarship but was also accepted into Stanford which (s)he rescinded.