As in previous years, it might be nice to have a thread for all international applicants this cycle (2014-15, c/o 2018).
I'm happy with a disjunctive understanding of "international applicant": you count as one either (i) if you have a foreign undergraduate degree, and thus - unless you're Canadian - you don't have an uGPA that's reportable, or (ii) you are not a US citizen or permanent resident. (Perhaps superfluously: the disjunction is inclusive - we're broad church 'round here!).
The point of the thread is to (i) collect information specifically relevant to international applicants, (ii) offer a centralized spot for tailor-made speculation about chances of admissions and/or scholarships, and, once we get going, (iii) to keep track of how our respective cycles are developing.
As to (i), here is, first of all, is the ~*~INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS SPREADSHEET~*~ where you can enter your info, so that future generations of international applicants may be less clueless than we are, courtesy of musedriverie:
SPREADSHEET
PLEASE DON'T MESS WITH OR SORT THE SHEET, JUST LOOK AND/OR ENTER YOUR OWN INFO kthanx
(For discussion of how to rank your softs, see e.g. this thread)
Second, I've created a spreadsheet compiling the information about (1) matriculants without a GPA and (2) non-resident aliens for the T14 based on the ABA required disclosure forms for 2014, here's the result:
With this information, you can generate the following rankings of how international-friendly schools are:
T14 ranked by percentage of 2014 matriculants without a GPA
01. Cornell University (5.91%)
02. Georgetown (4.48%)
03. Northwestern University (3.31%)
04. University of Michigan (3.14%)
05. Duke University (2.26%)
06. University of California Berkeley (2.19%)
07. Harvard University (1.78%)
08. University of Chicago (1.58%)
09. Columbia University (1.31%)
10. Stanford University (1.12%)
11. New York University (1.11%)
12. Yale University (1.00%)
13. University of Virginia (0.65%)
14. University of Pennsylvania (0.00%)
Third, here's an overview of how schools notify international applicants of a decision (to be filled in):T14 ranked by the percentage of non-resident aliens in total student body
01. Cornell University (13.58%)
02. Columbia University (8.64%)
03. Harvard University (8.04%)
04. Duke University (6.65%)
05. Northwestern University (6.29%)
06. New York University (6.21%)
07. University of Chicago (5.72%)
08. Yale University (5.27%)
09. University of California Berkeley (5.01%)
10. Georgetown (4.09%)
11. University of Michigan (3.70%)
12. University of Pennsylvania (3.31%)
13. Stanford University (2.44%)
14. University of Virginia (0.19%)
Fourth, here are links to the international applicant threads of the previous four cycles:01. Yale: TBD
02. Stanford: TBD
02. Harvard: email
04. University of Chicago: email
04. Columbia: TBD
06. New York University: email
07. University of Pennsylvania: TBD
07. University of Virginia: TBD
09. Berkeley: TBD
09. University of Michigan: status checker
11. Duke: email
12. Northwestern: TBD
13. Cornell: status checker, email
14. Georgetown: snail mail
2013-14
2012-13
2011-12
2010-11
In addition, it may be worthwhile to read this thread for some discussion of questions about employment-sponsored visas.
Finally, listen to some topical tunes!
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Come check in, fellow internationals!
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