Why are people piling on to a (possible) 14 year old??
We cannot know if this applicant will get shut out or if they’ll get in everywhere they’ve applied. We haven’t seen the essays, we haven’t seen the recommendations, we don’t know this international school’s record placing it’s students at us boarding schools, we don’t know their financial status, among many factors.
Given that we are talking to an anxious kid, I would ask that we take a couple of seconds to think about tone, and how what we write will be perceived.