Our school - international school - sent 3 to princeton, 2 to columbia, 2 to stanford, 2 to MIT, 4 to UPenn, 8 to Duke, 1 to Yale, 1 to Dartmouth, 3 to Caltech and 4 to JHU… and so on.
what were the common factors of all these people?
well, it’s pretty obvious that a few kids got into most of the school above. But they all had really good stats - I mean really good
they had gazillions of awards from international and nationwide competitions
they were all ‘good’ at at least one sport
all of them had at least 2 papers
but most important, was U.S citizenship.
The Fate of internationals - it’s always so depressing
<p>From our international school last year the Valedictorian was Indian and got into Harvard, Stanford and Cambridge, but not MIT. The Salutorian was Singaporean and got into Duke-ED. The next boy was a Kiwi and got into Yale and a bunch of other fabulous places- nearly all with great financial aid.</p>
<p>This year's results are not yet fully in. The top student did Stanford EA and got in- she is not American either...</p>
<p>Kids at our school compete in a regional international school "league" but most do not do any sorts of international or nationwide competitions of the sort that American students might. This is true for Americans as well as Internationals. </p>
<p>Maybe it is incrementally harder for internationals at some schools, it is definitely much harder for internationals at MIT, but it is clearly doable. Financial need is often a deciding factor it seems- at some schools.</p>
<p>I know (have physically met and know) more internationals students who are going to an Ivy League school this year than the total number of Ivy bounds from my school (1200+ student body American school) in its entire existance including myself (I am the third in the last 80+ years of my school).</p>