The one year program is the exchange program for visiting students (requires J1 visa) attending public schools. A family hosts the exchange student. Says to apply for visa at least 6 months in advance.
See also services offered by US embassy in Burma
“ * YSEALI
To nurture a regional network and strengthen leadership skills among ASEAN youth, Burmese youth are invited to register and be part of YSEALI.”
There is no law limiting the number of years you can attend public schools here. Your issue is, you are not a resident of the district where you want to attend public school and will need to be accepted as a tuition paying out of district student. And you will need to find lodging.
A boarding school will not have a different price structure for you and you will get lodging for the cost to attend.
BUT I ask again…
Can you afford to pay for a boarding school in the United States? They are expensive,
My family cannot afford those boarding schools’ fees, which may be over 50000$, because the business crisis has been happening since February 2020. By the way, I plan to go to public school for one year, and then in the next year, I will transfer to those boarding schools. By attending boarding schools for two years, I can apply to MIT without worrying too much about admission decision. THEREFORE, CAN YOU ASSIT ME TO APPLY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR SOPOMORE YEAR FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023?
This is not just reply to @thumper1. This is for everyone who wishes to help me to get my goals. And, a big THANKS for everyone in this forum. I owe you guys a debt which I will try to pay back in some day.
@Hippobirdy would attending a public school exchange program help this student when he or she wants to then transfer to a boarding school to finish high school.
@steve.p you wrote this: “ *By attending boarding schools for two years, I can apply to MIT without worrying too much about admission decision.”
The admission rate for acceptance to MIT is in the very low single digits. Going to boarding school is not a guarantee for acceptance to MIT. Actually, unless your family has donated millions of dollars to MIT, or you are the child of some famous dignitary (like a President of a country or something like that ), your odds of acceptance are exactly like everyone else’s…LOW. 95% of students are not accepted and,yes, in that number are graduates of boarding schools.
Edited to add: it may be possible to apply to and enroll in a school without NACEL or any third party recruiter that charges a fee.
I agree with others, that budget ( and realistic expectations about difficulty of admission to MIT)are needed.
Most unusual to have Burmese visiting students. Good luck.
This is so wrong that it deserves to be pointed out again that:
MIT rejects 95+% of applicants, including many from the most famous boarding schools. Last year there were 33,767 applicants, of whom 3.96% were admitted
and
Even if you apply from a US boarding school you will be considered an international applicant. Last year there were 9,602 international applicants- and 135 accepted, an acceptance rate of 1.4%.
The idea that you won’t have to worry about getting into MIT if you apply from a US boarding school is comprehensively wrong.
Start by the most realistic option: look for exchange programs, where you go and stay with a host family for a semester or a school year. If you can do that you will have the opportunity to learn about many other options than just MIT- something that every single student needs to do.
