<p>“Quite a nice way to generalize thousands of people. For your information, international students, especially from Asia (which you seem to have a hatred for) are FAR more qualified than the domestic students at schools like Stanford.”</p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t have hatred for international students from Asia, I came from Asia and helped a whole lot of students here in The States, I saw tragedies first hand.</p>
<p>If you don’t know how international students from Asia are different, you don’t know anything about them except yourself (if you are one). Let me give you an idea of how different they are:</p>
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<li><p>Those who came from Asia with their parents when they were young, started elementary or middle school here but have not gotten perminant residency or citizenship yet. They are basically domestic students but couldn’t apply as a domestic student. (in most cases their parents were graduate students in US and stayed for jobs after graduation, it took long for their parents to get citizenship)</p></li>
<li><p>Kids who grew up in Asia, have a dream to come to America and work hard to apply for undergraduate. These are high-achieving ones who are better than many domestic students and may get in to top universities (may or may not be better than category one or second-generation Asian Americans whose parents came here as grad students).</p></li>
<li><p>US citizens who were born in America and their parents took them back to their country of origin. Grew up in Asia and want to come to the states for undergraduate education. They are citizens but with Asian culture. Many of them went to English-speaking middle/high schools that originally designed for American kids who went overseas with their parents for a couple of years. These can be really good if their parents finished their graduate degrees and went back to work in their country. It can also be struggling if their parents pay a visit to America just to give birth to the child 17 or 18 years ago.</p></li>
<li><p>Kids who were sent to America for middle school or high school to stay with their relatives but their parents didn’t come with them. </p></li>
<li><p>Kids who already took college entrance exam in their country and couldn’t get accepted to good universities and their parents are wealthy enough to send them to go to ‘open admission’ universities or not very selective colleges with out-of-state full tuition (about 50k to 60k a year in a public university). The vast majority are in this category.</p></li>
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<p>You can see how different they are. The outstnading Asian internationals are in the 1-3 categories mostly and possibly 4; but all together they are still less than category 5. The more problematic ones are in the 5th category, need a lot of care to make sure they are doing fine. </p>