admissions and race

cOllidE_1
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:41:31 +0000

i was born in the us and i grew up in Illinois so i have a us citizenship, but my parents are both chinese so in turn i look 100 percent chinese and im also living in china because of my dads job (he got relocated to china)

when i submitted my application form i checked us citizenship but of course my mailing address was in China. some schools such as lawrenceville automatically assumed that i was an international student. this is a problem for me because i know that international students have a lower acceptance rate compared to students that have an us citizenship (i looked this up on the different schools’ sites)

so am i considered an international student? how do i make this clear to the admissions?