<p><<< @mom2collegekids: Unless there are programs that I am unaware of, the only way a “tie” to another state would help her get in to the med schools of that state is if she establishes residency in that state. Which actually isn’t that hard for US citizens to do in several states, granted.</p>
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<p>That would be to get instate rates. I’m not talking about that. There are state SOMs that will give some preference to OOS students who went to undergrad in their state. USA med school is one…especially if the applicant is female since it is lopsided male. And, it often gives a merit award to reduce the OOS cost.</p>
<p>Of course. Who was suggesting anything different? </p>
<p>Of course public SOMs favor instate students. However, there are some publics that accept OOS students but favor the OOS applicants that went to undergrad in that state. </p>
<p>“What does concern me with your daughter’s list is the fact she did not get accepted, or even deferred, at Scripps ED.”</p>
<p>Agreed. Major red flag. I’m very concerned that there is a problem with this application. Could be a torpedo in a recommendation letter; could be something wrong with the essays; could be a lack of activities; could be some combination. But that is a bizarre result for an ED applicant with a 35 and a 3.4 from a boarding school. There’s something here we don’t know. The OP may not know it either.</p>
<p>The question isn’t if you pay taxes in California, but are you a resident. MANY people pay taxes in states in which they aren’t residents. States with a large number of second home owners are very strict about it (Florida, Georgia). My sister used to pay taxes in California as part of her partnership and there were years she never stepped foot in the state. </p>
<p>I think the OP lives in California, but several of the posts talk about taxes and that isn’t really the deciding factor.</p>
<p>Being Chinese in California is of little help, even at the private schools. Much more of a plus in the midwest.</p>
I think some of us have to rethink what a “boarding school” means in the college admissions venacular. We may not be talking Phillips Academy, Cate, or St Paul’s anymore when we refer to “boarding schools.” Boarding schools are popping up almost every day now which are basically built for the sole purpose of educating wealthy Chinese students who are sent overseas by by their parents to get into US colleges. The NY Times had an article about this trend with respect to a new boarding school in Princeton NJ. So take it with a grain of salt when the OP says that his D has a 3.4 from a boarding school; boarding schools now have a wide variance in quality and it may be just as mediocre as a 3.4 from any run-of-the-mill school.
This is true. I know of a former small, rural college that changed to become a boarding school (not hard to do…they already had the dorms!). It is largely populated by affluent int’ls. There are some domestic students, often ones whose parents are extremely busy with their careers (travel a lot, etc) and need their kids to be in an atmosphere where they’re watched, but not “baby-sat”.
Anyway…the classes aren’t Choate/Exeter level. They’re typical AP and regular classes.
There’s another thread that mentions that some colleges may go bust…maybe some of the smallish ones (less than 1000 students) should consider becoming HS boarding schools.
My daughters had about 50 international students ‘boarding’ at their high school. Some lived with families, but most lived in houses with house parents and 5-10 other students. Most were Asians, from China and Korea. They took the same classes as the other high school students but some had much lower language skills, so may have scored lower in English and history classes.
Yes, there are some new boarding schools.
But my daughter’s boarding school is one of top boarding high schools in CA, her SSAT is 2260, her GPA pattern like
boy, sometime high, sometime low, but she always did good job on standard test.
This doesn’t sound like a boarding school with grade deflation. This sounds like a boarding school where GPAs are similar to public high school GPAs, but this particular student sometimes got lower grades than high-achieving classmates, for whatever reason.
I would be interested to learn how this worked out. A 35 on the ACT places the student at ther very top (99.7 percentile). An unweighted 3.4 at a good private boarding school is better than 4.0 at your average US public high school. With good essays, recommendations, EC’s, this student is qualified for any school on America. Something is going on here besides the stats.