International students who make friends with college peers who aren’t from their home country make a better psychosocial adjustment, according to new findings from PRSG researcher Di Wang. Her study of nearly 200 students representative of the international undergraduate population at UW-Madison indicated that the higher the proportion of co-national students among the individual’s close friends, the lower their social and psychological adjustment scores were. But timing was an issue. In students’ first year at college, strong friendships with co-nationals were indicative of healthy adjustment to college–precisely the opposite pattern observed among more advanced students.