<p>I am a Korean parent. My child is a US green card holder and wants to apply boarding schools in 2010. My question is,</p>
<p>"The boarding schools have an inside policy regarding the number/ratio of Korean students? If they have, they categorize Korean-school-graduated and US-graduated in same pool or not?"</p>
<p>They’ll never tell you they do, but as an applicant I wouldn’t doubt the possibility. They have a pool of International applicants if that’s what your referring to.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether they do or don’t, but my husband is Korean and I can tell you that a lot of his friends’ kids are attending Deerfield, Phillips Exeter and Milton. They tell me that there is a significant Korean population at those schools. </p>
<p>I personally think they keep the pools separate, that said- I highly doubt they differentiate between Asian groups; so if your child is international, they are simply international, and if they are US, they are grouped in with the other US students.</p>
<p>Most of BS try to diversifiy the racial and geographical distribution. That is a good thing.
I am a Korean parent and I know this issue very well. US green crad holders are still classified as international(foreign) student since they are still Korean nationality(not US citizen). They(highly ranked BS) accept about 10% international student every year.
Average or below average BS accept more than 10% international students. Most of the international students are Korean anyway. However, there are still some students from other countries such as Canada, China, Japan, Australia, HongKong, etc. Considering such countries, Korean students percentage naturally turns out to be less than 5% even though they do not have the policy.
What is important is not Korean-school-graduated or US-graduated but US citizen or not. Inside the international students pool, it may matter to be Korean-school-graduated and US-graduated.
Bottom line is that US green card does not help very much. Many Korean students from Korea have US green cards or other countries green cards even though they have never lived in those countries. I do not know how they got scuh green cards.</p>
<p>I agree with the poster above on this issue. I have heard that the main factor is US citizen or not. Most schools limit the number of Korean students so that no more than 5% of the student body is Korean. This doesn’t include Korean Americans, but just students from the country of Korea. It’s actually any country—they don’t want a large number of students from any one language group at their school since it would discourage them from speaking English, etc.</p>
<p>One school told me last year that they got about 100 applicants for 9th grade from Korea and planned to accept just 1 korean boy and one korean girl, so the acceptance rate for Koreans is very low.</p>
<p>actually newyorker 22, at Exeter, that’s true! While there are a lot of Korean Americans, there’s only one boy from Korea and one girl from Korea. O.o but im sure they didn’t do it on purpose…</p>
<p>Erkybk, that’s strange. The admissions office had told me that I would be Domestic and not International. Can someone explain?</p>
<p>thingslost, domestic and international is determined based on nationality(passport).
I asked several times to each school. Good Luck! anyway.</p>
<p>Um… Can you rephrase that? I didn’t really understand it.</p>
<p>Basically, if you have an American passport, you’re considered American.</p>
<p>(at least, that’s my interpretation)</p>
<p>Well, I don’t. But they still said I was domestic? CONFUSED!! (pre-march 10th madness syndrome)</p>
<p>?! uh oh.
well … do you have a russian or chinese passport ? if so, then you’re intl, i think. <_></p>
<p>Chinese. I’m sure they said I was domestic. Actually they said I was Californian. It doesn’t really matter because I’m not applying for FA. Or does it? It would be HILARIOUS if I ended up being International from China; I’ve never even been there.</p>
<p>that’s crazy! but if the actual SCHOOL told you that, then i’d trust them more than a couple of speculators on a website, right? :P</p>
<p>The top schools quota everything. They have the same percentage of Asians, blacks, whites, Hispanics, number from the W. Coast, number from Alaska…year over year. They can also grant so many visas, but your child will not face that issue.</p>
<p>At other schools, particularly now, they will take any qualified full pay candidate without worry as to background.</p>
<p>Yeah. It’s not like I can do anything about it now, decisions have already been made. I would rather be an international student though, I’d get to check my decisions online at Andover. I have to wait for the normal mail. THE ANTICIPATION IS KILLING ME!!! Wait, since I don’t have a link to a online decision from Andover, it means that I’m not an international applicant at Andover. If that makes sense?</p>
<p>yes! haha. so you’re considered domestic to them…</p>
<p>or they forgot to send you the link. let’s hope it’s the first one, though <w<</p>
<p>Yeah. Thanks! I’m pretty sure that I’m not international, but it would be super-weird if I was!</p>
<p>It depends on the school.
Some schools look at the passport,
while others consider you an international applicant if you are residing overseas.</p>