<p>I am a US citizen. Yet because of my dad's job transferral to Mumbai, I have been studying in an international school here for 3 years and have finished the ICGSE and am doing the IB. Would this count as an advantage? I've heard that if, as a US citizen, you live abroad for a couple of years you acquire international mindedness, yada yada yada: the usual ambiguous words. Is this true? Or is this a figment of imagination in my messed-up head? :D Thanks in advance for clarifying.</p>
<p>“I’ve heard that if, as a US citizen, you live abroad for a couple of years you acquire international mindedness”</p>
<p>And what is your question exactly? You have unique life experiences. Now what will you do with that? Inherently it doesn’t make you more or less likely as a Yale candidate. It’s just part of your “story”.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply T26. Upon reflection, I have realise that you are right. I have not made my question clear. Here is my endeavor to do so.</p>
<p>If you have two hypothetical similar well-qualified candidates: Both have the same grades, the same SAT scores, and for the purposes of this discussion the exact same extracurriculars but one is a regular US citizen and the other a US citizen that has lived abroad, would the latter individual get chosen over the former by Yale, or for that matter, any Ivy League University and Stanford. </p>
<p>I do realize that I have an inbuilt contradiction in my theoretical scenario. If a person is a US citizen and living internationally, even of he did have an advantage, that advantage would be caused because of his living abroad and by saying the two hypothetical individuals have the same sets of statistics, this advantage itself is eliminated. </p>