Foreign students

23% (6.870) of Harvard's 29,908 students are foreign students. Last year Harvard accepted 1,962 students out of 42,749 applicants. Most of these applicants have very high test scores and very high GPA's but foreign students are given spots that would otherwise go to American students. Many other colleges have similar enrollments. In 2016, 544,500 foreign students finished their education and 432,500 returned to their home countries the majority of whom were from China. Universities like this, since foreign students generally pay full tuition.