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Originally Posted by Crawford
I could probably find counts somewhere. I'm pretty sure, at Columbia at least, students from Asia comprise a large share of the international student body. I'd be pretty surprised if it weren't a solid majority.
Yeah, international students don't generally get any aid, which is why schools like them. But there are obviously lots of affluent households in Asia, so I'm not sure why that would be a barrier relative to Europe or Latin America.
Without looking it up, I assume Stanford's demographics are closer to the Ivies than to the elite publics. Probably also a large share of legacies and recruited athletes.
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Well, it's possible Columbia internationals skew more Asian than Stanford, but that would be a bit surprising to me.
Here are the top 10 countries for Stanford international undergrads in 2020, but keep in mind that only about half of the international students are accounted for in this pie (the total was 673, apparently; this is an idiotic graphic that shows percentages of the students originating from the top ten percent, but it's dumb. Really only 90/673=13% of undergrad internationals are from China, a number that passes the smell test based on my experience). I suspect outside the top ten skews more European/Middle Eastern than Asian.
And yes, there are a lot of recruited athletes and legacies (actually the two are often the same... I mean, who plays squash or lacrosse outside of prep school kids?). But Stanford fields an FBS football team, so the demographics of Stanford athletes probably differ from Ivy League just because of that.