International students generally are ineligible for pretty much all financial aid.
Nope. Top American universities are pretty generous—probably the most generous among first-world countries—with need-based aid for undergrad internationals if you can get in (which is expectedly more difficult than for domestics). I know a few people in top American universities with full or near-full rides, most relevantly including one in Harvard, so yeah they exist. Of course most internationals are still filthy rich full-payers, but technically it’s not all filthy rich full-payers.
The reality is that cutting out international students actually harms an institution’s ability to provide aid to American students.
Nope. Top American universities are pretty generous—probably the most generous among first-world countries—with need-based aid for undergrad internationals if you can get in (which is expectedly more difficult than for domestics). I know a few people in top American universities with full or near-full rides, most relevantly including one in Harvard, so yeah they exist. Of course most internationals are still filthy rich full-payers, but technically it’s not all filthy rich full-payers.
Definitely true.