[Stymie]

In my experience international undergraduate admitees do tend to be from wealthy families and/or legacies and also tend to have US passports.  Those applicants who have none of these three "attributes" are further disadvantaged in that the Admissions office does not apply the same financial "hardship" standards for non-US citizens.  If you are superqualified smart and diverse and from Poland (for example), your parents have to pay the whole $60K/year whack, regardless of your income.

I don't think that LSJU really wants to get the "international" sub-group much above 10%.  Given that 95+% of the potential application pool is not from the USA, this means that in a global context Stanford is not very diversified at all....

[Stymie]

In my experience international undergraduate admitees do tend to be from wealthy families and/or legacies and also tend to have US passports.  Those applicants who have none of these three "attributes" are further disadvantaged in that the Admissions office does not apply the same financial "hardship" standards for non-US citizens.  If you are superqualified smart and diverse and from Poland (for example), your parents have to pay the whole $60K/year whack, regardless of your income.

I don't think that LSJU really wants to get the "international" sub-group much above 10%.  Given that 95+% of the potential application pool is not from the USA, this means that in a global context Stanford is not very diversified at all....