Some universities have started including international admit rates in their Common Data Sets! This is exciting to data nerds like us and confirms what we already know: admit rates for foreign students are much lower than domestic, sometime much lower. It would also be very interesting to know how many of the 229 accepted international students are Princeton were helped by "institutional priorities", such as athletics.
We haven't included all the data but some schools get thousands of applications from international students but as the data show, only admit less than 4% of those students. Drumming up applications from international students who realistically have a small chance of admission is a great way to lower headline admit rates, as well as a decent source of revenue at US$100 per application or so.
Sadly, many schools do not report this data as the common data set initiative is technically optional. Please ask every university representative that you speak to from schools that don't report, "why are you being disingenuous (SAT word!) and not revealing data like your peers do?" Hopefully more will report in future, but they certainly will need to be pushed.
