CUNY acceptances/funding wait lists are NOT all international. A friend of mine was accepted via email yesterday and seems to have gotten the same message as all reported acceptances. Said friend is a US citizen from a US school.
Another friend of mine applied to cuny a few years back and was accepted -- if I remember correctly, they accept people and then sort out funding within the next week or so. I'm not sure that anyone gets a better package than anyone else. Funding just get a bit more...chaotic there since it's a public, rather than private, school.
Edited to add that additionally, from memory of earlier accepted friend's experience, CUNY doesn't send out all acceptances/wait lists at once in a neat little BCC'd email, or anything like it. If this year's process resembles past years', not yet having heard from CUNY does *not* mean you're out there.
