<p>I'm staying in the US with my family on a H-1B visa. I have H-4 status. If I were to apply to a boarding school in the US, would I count as an international student?</p>
<p>Most likely you would be considered int’l, as you are neither a U.S. citizen nor permanent resident, despite having legal temporary resident status.</p>
<p>If your next question is whether you should be paying the domestic student application fee or the doubly expensive int’l student fee, my guess is that the schools will make you pay the more expensive int’l fee, even though you are presently living in the U.S. But I would check w EACH school individually to confirm this.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, DS is a U.S. citizen but also got stuck w the int’l fee at every school he applied to, even at the the schools that classified him as “domestic” based on his nationality. They argued that they had to mail everything to him abroad.</p>
<p>So I would have to apply as an international student to everywhere? And I would have basically have no chance at financial aid right?</p>
<p>Quite a few schools offer FA to int’ls, but if they do, it is generally limited and very competitive. I think Andover is need blind for both domestic & int’l (someone correct me here). But as you probably already know, Andover admissions is very, very competitive. </p>
<p>I would check w each school individually on what your status is.</p>