<p>America for Americans I guess? I don’t entirely agree with the sentiment, but it’s useless to go pointing fingers at America for being the only country with such standards. U.S. students abroad face similar restrictions.</p>
<p>Yes, international admissions are horrendously competitive and the FinAid for them sucks in most cases. There’s nothing I can really do except urge you to make your application as competitive as it can be and to really evaluate if you want to go to UC enough to take out loans to pay for it.</p>