<p>Do you honestly think the kind of international students that go to Stanford or other top schools/selective LACs are inferior to American undergrads? On the contrary, international students at selective schools tend to perform better (in the case of one school: <a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/ir_internal_web/gradratebyethnicity.html”>http://www.reed.edu/ir/ir_internal_web/gradratebyethnicity.html</a>). While this select group is obviously not representative of the vast majority of internationals in the US, conflating it with the representative group is silly. There are schools that invest in the value that <em>competent</em> internationals bring to their schools, including schools like Mount Holyoke, a school of 2400 (which spends $15m on international aid every year, in sharp contrast to Stanford’s measly $6m) and Princeton (slightly under $20m).</p>