His mother retired as the director of foreign student admissions at Marymount Manhattan College, where she also advised on visa and other issues.
He went to Notre Dame through the back door, as he likes to say, after two years at Holy Cross, where he took Spanish classes to fulfill Notre Dame's foreign language admissions requirement and improve his grades.
The RAS includes some 2,700 fellows, junior members, and (foreign) associates; admission is selective and requires significant scientific accomplishment.
"If a U.S. STEM degree becomes the route to permanent residency, it can be expected to increase the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. colleges," Guestworker continues.
Yale's decision to extend need-blind admissions to foreign students will make it a member of a tiny club that includes Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Virgil Renzulli, a spokesman for Columbia, said yesterday that the university is considering a plan for need-blind admissions for foreign students similar to the one Yale announced yesterday.
Also, he said: "American young people with bachelor's degrees see these occupations distorted by large-scale admissions of foreign workers.
In addition to the College Board exams, Dr. Lord's models would influence the Graduate Record exam, the Test of English as a Foreign Language, the Graduate Management Admissions Test and the Law School Admissions Test.
Don M. Betterton, director of financial aid at Princeton, said the university had effectively extended need-blind admissions to foreign students on an ad hoc basis last year, and would probably do the same this year, even though it did not have a formal policy at this time.
