The White House has floated a funding-linked “compact” to a short list of elite universities: Accept a package of conditions and enjoy preferred access to federal money. Among those conditions, the most combustible for Indian families is a double cap on international undergraduates—no more than 15% of the total undergraduate body, and no more than 5% from any single country. This is not a nationwide law; it is a conditional offer to nine named institutions (Brown, Dartmouth, MIT , Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, UVA, University of Texas, University of Arizona) that are being asked to sign, with the cap spelled out explicitly in the reporting on the memo. The proposal, detailed in media copies of the nine-page “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” limits international undergrad

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