<p>Stanford does, in fact, offer financial aid to internationals. Unfortunately, it does not do nearly enough to create an internationally diverse student body, relative to peer schools (check out how much Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown spend). I don’t know what’s up with Cali schools. Pomona and Stanford both have massive resources but it seems that they actively choose not to spend money on internationals, and “limit” the aid budgets for them (if they wanted to, they could become need-blind for internationals too). I’m very, very curious about their reasoning for doing so.</p>