[muawiyah]

Yes, they do compete ~ they take 'empty places' in schools because the management failed to recruit properly.

Maybe you can't get all the top 1% folks you want, but you can get the top 1.1% and move out smartly.

What the schools are waiting for is the OUT OF STATE TUITION the foreign students will need to pay.

[InterceptPoint]

What the schools are waiting for is the OUT OF STATE TUITION the foreign students will need to pay.

There is some of that I'm sure but I still think our engineering school applications are way down from previous years. But I admit that is just a guess, I don't have the data to back it up.

In any case the Out of State Tuition "problem" is real. Universities do favor out of state/country students because of the higher tuition they have to pay.