Yeah K12 and higher ed are vastly vastly different. There's also many reasons for many foreign students at US universities that are unrelated to academics: - w

Yeah K12 and higher ed are vastly vastly different. There's also many reasons for many foreign students at US universities that are unrelated to academics: - we have the best universities in the world, and lots of them - our universities are accessible because English is the most taught/spoken language in the world - foreign student population is coming from a pool of 7.7bb people, whereas domestic is only 0.3bb, a 25x differential. - foreign students pay full tuition, which can be several times that of in-state tuition at state schools, so universities seek out foreign students to pay the bills