<p>I’d suggest you ask the admissions office directly. Saw your post (on the Stanford thread was it?) and as one of the replies assumed, you may perhaps be considered a home-schooled applicant?</p>
<p>Maldives here btw. No one from my country to my knowledge has applied or gained admittance to a Caltech caliber university (edit: for undergrad) in the US. It’s always England or elsewhere because we do A-Levels. And most here do not take school papers seriously either. Far as I know, a classmate who dropped out mid-11th grade was admitted to a UK university after he did his A-Levels privately. I have no experience with admissions in the US in this regard.</p>