<story><title>MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-harvard-file-suit-against-new-ice-regulations-0708</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben7799</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s incredibly unfair for the the administration to target international students like this.&lt;p&gt;However Harvard and MIT aren&amp;#x27;t all about caring about their international students here.   They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing.   International students usually pay a much higher effective tuition rate.   The higher the % of international students the school takes in the more money they take in.  If these schools had to replace international students with domestic ones (even if they could) they wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to get away with selecting only the highest paying students.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m from Boston, we have an incredibly high number of international students, and a lot of the interest in keeping them is about getting their money.&lt;p&gt;The Boston Globe estimates they are worth $3.6 billion dollars to the area... lots of money, lots of tuition, lots of apartment rentals, lots of bar &amp;amp; restaurant revenue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; However Harvard and MIT aren&amp;#x27;t all about caring about their international students here. They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing.&lt;p&gt;It’s okay to have multiple motivations.&lt;p&gt;The fact that they have a monetary incentive doesn’t detract from the good of what they’re doing. In fact, that’s partially what enables these expensive lawsuits.&lt;p&gt;We shouldn’t try to downplay good actions just because money is also involved.</text></comment>
<story><title>MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-harvard-file-suit-against-new-ice-regulations-0708</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben7799</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s incredibly unfair for the the administration to target international students like this.&lt;p&gt;However Harvard and MIT aren&amp;#x27;t all about caring about their international students here.   They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing.   International students usually pay a much higher effective tuition rate.   The higher the % of international students the school takes in the more money they take in.  If these schools had to replace international students with domestic ones (even if they could) they wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to get away with selecting only the highest paying students.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m from Boston, we have an incredibly high number of international students, and a lot of the interest in keeping them is about getting their money.&lt;p&gt;The Boston Globe estimates they are worth $3.6 billion dollars to the area... lots of money, lots of tuition, lots of apartment rentals, lots of bar &amp;amp; restaurant revenue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsotnet</author><text>&amp;gt; However Harvard and MIT aren&amp;#x27;t all about caring about their international students here. They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing. International students usually pay a much higher effective tuition rate&lt;p&gt;As an international MIT alumni, I can confidently say that this is completely wrong. MIT and Harvard have need-based scholarships, meaning that students pay tuition depending on their financial circumstances. Most of the international students come from poorer countries &amp;amp; families compared to an average domestic student and therefore end up paying a lot less in tuition.&lt;p&gt;Also, MIT&amp;#x27;s international undergraduate students are usually around 10% of the whole class. Even if you were right, they don&amp;#x27;t represent a big enough chunk of the whole class to have a significant impact on the money they&amp;#x27;re making.</text></comment>