<p>I know NYU isn’t an elite school. I was trying to give you an example. I know ‘what the neighbors think’ and ‘prestige’
are common in the US, except such factors affect much more strongly among int kids particularly Asians.</p>
<p>Another reason, I think, that int kids don’t apply to UA is they simply don’t know UA exists. Unless they are fluent enough in English AND know how to search good schools for them(which I didn’t do well…) they won’t probably find the good schools for them well. Even I didn’t know about UA until my friend told me about automatic full tuition last November. </p>
<p>Also, the location of UA is a reason too. I think. Many int people still think there are good schools only in states like California or Eastern universities…they don’t really know that unlike other countries, USA has great schools literally all over the most states. I don’t know about the other countries like India or others, but for example in Asia, all the good schools are concentrated in metropolitan or capital area, and colleges in rural/sub urban areas are significantly inferior(in academic, funds, resource, everything) to those in urban area… </p>