<p>If an International attends a US boarding school and applies to US Colleges - how is their application viewed? </p>
<p>Is it lumped in with the other students of their nationality (Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern,etc?) Or are they considered US? or are they exceptions?</p>
<p>Hello @livesinnewjersey. Typically, a student’s application status to US colleges depends not on where you attend school, but rather on your passport. Keep in mind each institution sets their own specific criteria for admission so there will be differences. If you’ve done your entire high school at a US boarding school, and if international student applicants are evaluated in an international office, not in an undergraduate admissions office, there may be differences in which office might review your file, but you’d still be considered an international student. As you develop your short list of US colleges, be sure to get in touch with each school to learn where exactly you would be evaluated.</p>
<p>In most cases, you would be evaluated along with people of your education system for the years you spent in that system, the years spent in the US would be evaluated as would be for an ELL/ESL domestic student, but for financial aid you’d be evaluated as international.
The first part would vary depending on how long you’ve been in the US - in all likelihood, only your grades and transcripts for the last 4 years of secondary schools would be needed.
Of course, each school does as it pleases, but evaluating you according to the IGCSE curriculum if you’re in an American boarding school wouldn’t make sense, for example. 
In many cases you wouldn’t have to take the TOEFL and you’d have to take the ACT/SAT/SAT2 as required of domestic applicants.
Administratively if you needed a visa (F1) you’d apply as an international student regardless (ie, “international applicant” category of application.)</p>
<p>MYOS1634 & Ed.USATips-- thanks for your helpful replies.</p>
<p>Just a quick add to the two posts above - most boarding schools will have their own “readers” at the usual suspect colleges. So you will be evaluated by a person very familiar with your school.</p>