主题：【原创】我了解的八九十年代留学德国 -- 假日归客

for the very top schools there are top five

HYPSM (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT)

the next tier very closely following

CalTech, Chicago, the rest of the Ivy --

Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, U Penn, Brown

and then the colleges that are "Ivy level" --

Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, etc.

Grand total about 20 some colleges, and its not going to be close to 100K students.

the so called scholarships are all need base, no exception.

Another thing -- need based is for US citizens only.

For Chinese undergraduates its big business and a vital revenue source for these schools.

Graduate students are a very different matter