I know that some public universities have this conflict, in terms of wanting to serve their mission of helping in-state students, but also needing more money to

I know that some public universities have this conflict, in terms of wanting to serve their mission of helping in-state students, but also needing more money to do so (ie foreign students can never be in-state, so they always pay full tuition). It's a bad bind because of decreasing state funds spent on universities. My friends and I often talk about how many public universities get so little from their respective states that they are essentially private universities but are still constrained by their state legislatures. In contrast, private universities don't have as strong an incentive to accept more foreign students. Anyways, that's a digression. The short answer is that we are keeping standards very high for admissions for this program. Also, having been in academia for many years, I can easily say that there are lots of brilliant people from all over the world.