<p>I've read around here that usually for international students, there's a sort of slot system? As in there are around 25 slots for China or 3 slots for Canadian students to be admitted. Is this true? If so, then does anyone know the approximate amount of slots for Canada on average?</p>
<p>Schools find it problematic (in the interest of having a diverse student body) to have too many int’l kids from the same country. Schools don’t have a rigidly fixed number of slots per country as the number of kids from the same country varies year to year. For students from countries w a high number of applicants (e.g. China/HK, S Korea, Canada) it will be more competitive for admissions and likely more difficult for the applicant who requires FA. Schools w larger student bodies will naturally have more slots for all kids, regardless of their background.</p>
<p>Here is an example of the geographic distribution at one school (turn to page 117):
[Deerfield</a> Academy Viewbook 2011-12](<a href=“Deerfield Academy Viewbook 2011-12 by Deerfield Academy - Issuu”>Deerfield Academy Viewbook 2011-12 by Deerfield Academy - Issuu)</p>
<p>Is this supposed to be a typical distribution? What about for less prestigious schools like Concord and Milton? What was the acceptance rate? How many got financial aid?</p>
<p>look at the page number actually printed on the bottom corner of the document. I don’t know the FA rates for int’ls because I have never seen any school publish them.</p>
<p>You’re not an idiot if you have the initiative as a kid to seek out information on your own.</p>
<p>Concord & Milton are very prestigious. </p>
<p>I would expect strong representation by China/HK and SKorea at just about any b.s. in the U.S. No school I know of publishes DETAILED admission or FA stats.</p>
<p>Here are 2 recent articles:</p>
<p>[How</a> China’s New Love Affair with U.S. Private Schools Is Changing Them Both - Helen Gao - The Atlantic](<a href=“How China's New Love Affair with U.S. Private Schools Is Changing Them Both - The Atlantic”>How China's New Love Affair with U.S. Private Schools Is Changing Them Both - The Atlantic)</p>
<p>[Chinese</a> Students Lose as U.S. Schools Exploit Need - Bloomberg](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Some aspects of those articles fit my own personal observations in interviews.</p>
<p>Concord stays consistently around 10% international students. They don’t have specific quotas for countries as the mix will vary from year to year, though China and South Korea are usually the most represented. FA is only offered to US citizens and permanent residents.</p>
<p>It also depends on the school. At Lawrenceville, international students constitute 18% of the student body, whereas it is only 9% at Exeter, for instance.</p>
<p>exeter counts Americans residing abroad as “domestic”, unlike other schools we’ve encountered</p>
<p>OP: if we take a look at the Deerfield page, it had a higher 15% rate for internationals (92 out of 630) than Concord’s 10%. </p>
<p>However, if you plan to admit as a Grade 9 student at Deerfield, you may want to note that the cohort was only 101 students. So say, 15 internationals? As the gender split was almost a perfect 50:50 - we can guess that international candidates (each gender) were competing for 7-8 spaces.</p>
<p>Since you asked about Canadians, they were the third largest of the internationals (after students from China and Korea). This could be a good news for Canadians if Deerfield maintains it as a consistent trend. This could be a bad news, if they decide to re-allocate Canada’s slots to other countries. Who knows?</p>
<p>Internationals not from the three countries may want to note that collectively these three countries took more than 50% of the international “slots” (48 out of 92). So, if Deerfield plans to maintain the same distribution format, and you are not from Canada, Korea or China, you are not competing for a 15% international rate but a less than 7% international rate!! </p>
<p>Consequentially, spaces for internationals are even more limited at schools with smaller study body and/or lower international rate.</p>
<p>I don’t think schools have a set # of slots per nationality, it’s probably more like a ceiling, i.e., there’s no dedicated slot reserved just for a Jamaican student or just for a Chinese student each year. The schools end up w more Chinese students v. Jamaican students, because they get a lot more applicants from China than Jamaica. Then the schools cap the maximum number for any nationality.</p>
<p>Here is another link for perspective:
[Chinese</a> flock to elite U.S. schools - CNN.com](<a href=“http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/25/world/asia/china-ivy-league-admission/index.html]Chinese”>http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/25/world/asia/china-ivy-league-admission/index.html)
.</p>
<p>If I am from Latin America and am applying as a sophmore to Deerfield, then about how many slots are we talking about?
like 1 or 2?</p>
<p>read the posts above</p>
<p>Also from L.America, I guess it may depend on the school, 5 of the TSAO schools came to my country, I attended the meeting and also did my interview at every school I am applying to, which I guess it’s a plus since the people that I met at the meeting also saw me at the schools, and one of them actually interviewed me.</p>
<p>Being a URM may sometimes give you an advantage at certain schools, im my case(Advantage), either my country is not represented or there’s just 1 person.</p>
<p>There are also ORM’s which could be a disadvantage depending on the country you are from.</p>
<p>@turks12345: the DA prospectus stated there were four internationals from Latin America (one each from Argentina, Bolivia, Columbia and Venezuela). </p>
<p>So, how many slots (for intls from LAm) are we talking about? Who knows? Come M10, you could be one of their new sophomores and their #5 intls from LAm.</p>
<p>I’ll just note that if there’s no attrition among their freshmen, and DA maintains the class size, they will admit 49 new sophomores (150-101) give or take. At their typical 15% international rate, I will be mentally prepared for 7-8 new international sophomores - 3-4 boys/girls give or take…</p>
<p>@InternationalDad thank you! I hope I will be one of those international students admitted 
its a plus that my country is mentioned</p>
<p>It’s a plus if your country is not mentioned. Schools prefer more more students from different countries, not more students from the same country.</p>
<p>YAY!!! URM’s!!!</p>
<p>@Mex,</p>
<p>I suggest you be gracious and discreet about receiving preference for URM status, just as I would advise being gracious and discreet if you are receiving preference for being a legacy. </p>
<p>Both issues are a sore spot for many applicants and not something you should “brag” about.</p>
<p>@Gmtplus7 </p>
<p>Sorry, first time on app process, and I really dont know a lot about it, I’ll be more discrete about it (Thankyou!)</p>