Saladman posted:

It's not necessarily like that. I lived with a Lebanese and a Hong Kongian for a year in college and the Lebanese was on a full ride and the Hong Konger on a half ride (the first one of the handful of academic scholars, the second partial financial aid) but yeah it's not common. If you're from a "high value diversity" country your odds are a lot better. Unfortunately unless you have some Surinamese heritage you can play up, Dutch is going to be hard to swing from the diversity factor. Schools do love having X% European students though so some people definitely do get lucky.