<p>Well, I'm coming from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada Winnipeg</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . And planning to apply as an incoming senior for the fall of 2011....</p>
<p>If there are less people applying from your city/province will you have more chances of getting in as opposed to someone applying as a boarder from New Hampshire, Massachusetts etc?</p>
<p>What about cultural background? Say I'm quite mixed but ancestors are mainly from Spain and France..</p>
<p>well, if you were looking at 2 applicants with the exact same stats but with one hailing from los angeles and the other from wyoming, the wyoming kid would probably have the edge. personally, on the state-wise level, i don’t think it makes <em>THAT</em> much of a difference. also, i don’t think manitoba’s too great of a rarity, i mean if you were from northern nunavut, maybe … i think that canadians are at a slight disadvantage to americans (debatable), as well.</p>
<p>cultural background … eh, if you’re from the ivory coast then it would surely help but spain? not so much hahah.
also, about the incoming senior thing… most schools don’t take new seniors. just giving you a heads up … which schools are you looking into? : S</p>
<p>well he said NH/MA so I am assuming Exeter, Andover since they both take seniors.</p>
<p>Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, SPS, Loomis Chafee, Lawrenceville, Choate, Deerfield and maybe Taft.</p>
<p>I’m new to sports (Lacrosse, Cycling, Track, Cross Country, Badminton) but I’ve won several times in cycling, and cross country. And Andover and Exeter I heard are interested in athletes.</p>
<p>I didn’t think SPS took seniors.</p>
<p>Oh well…my bad research job haha. Any way, are you accepted in any boarding school?</p>
<p>answered in other thread.</p>
<p>I do believe geographical origin matters, but it’s hard to explain “how”. </p>
<p>Applicants from China/Korea face much more competitive admission than usual because there’re sooo many of them and many have high scores. </p>
<p>Applicants from Wyoming do not necessarily have better chance, unless they can highlight their uniqueness and have things to offer (assuming they’re the same as kids from Los angeles in terms of merit, athletic and stuff).</p>
<p>I’m also from an unpopular country. In my essay and interview, I talked about my “normal” daily routine, but there’s already a lot of “wow” factor in it just because it’s so different from life in US. So I think it’s an advantage in the sense that you have unique resource and experience - but it’s up to you whether you play it to your advantage.</p>
<p>@ 2010. SPS doesn’t take new seniors.</p>
<p>It depends on what you make of it.
I myself am a military kid (my dad is currently in the army), and have lived in many places in my life, most significantly Delaware, Maine, Idaho, and New Jersey. At one point in my life, I was even living in a Red Cross shelter! Right now I am living, and expect to stay in, Albany, New York.
Using this background, I wrote about it for my admissions essay, and lo and behold, it turned out well. So, just try to utilize it to your advantage, like I did.</p>
<p>I called Exeter and Andover this afternoon. I asked whether they get applications from Manitoban students…they both said yes…</p>
<p>I really hope I’m the only Manitoban to apply for Sep 2011…</p>
<p>geography certainly plays a part in admissions. If you look at composition of most boarding schools - you will see they are very slanted in the NorthEast populations and then CA. So if a school wants to say - “our students come from every state in the union” and they dont have several of those states represented, then they will grab a kid from one of those states, if one applies. Coming from another country with a significantly different lifestyle to the US may give you an interesting essay, and pique the interest of AdCom, but its not the same as the geographic hook as determined by a state where you live.</p>
<p>now would be a great time to move to nunavut …</p>
<p>Nunavut…haha so isolated.</p>