I understand that.
Such foreign students generally pay the retail price for college, whereas Americans almost always get some package of scholarship/aid discount—in part funded by the full-load foreign students.
So VERY incorrect. It is the Americans who are paying full load and the foreign students that are getting scholarships and aid from the school. American students have to get loans.
And, we have so many jillions of poorly qualified American students in college right now, I don’t see how “qualified” American students are being left out.
The schools where they have "poorly qualified" students is usually not the same one the foreign students are attending. In the cases that they are those "poorly qualified" are there for the exact same reason as the foreign students are. So the school can pat it's self on the back as to how perverse... oh sorry... I mean diverse... they are.
Yeah, sure, schools have always liked foreign “diversity”, because that has always been a draw for American students and their parents.
But the colleges I am familiar with now (and private high schools too), target foreign students (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, and wealthy Latin American) because their families will pay full load. Meanwhile, most American students do indeed get some sort of aid package—rather than paying the rack rate.