<p>Starting halfway through my Junior year, I have lived more than 700 miles from home and only get to see my parents for several days on big holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc…However, I’ve managed to get straight A’s with a tough curriculum of several AP’s and ALL honors classes. Will the top universities perceive this as a significant positive (ability to live independently and succeed alone in college environment)?
Thanks</p>
<p>Mention it in your essay.
Did you go to boarding school? then it’s a whole different kind of story, b/c basically all the boarders leave their family.</p>
<p>In some ways, it is a boarding school (its residential during school year). However, for all students at my school, their parents live in the state and so they may see their parents for several days every month. My story is different, as I have to live with someone else during those “break days” and only see my parents every few months.</p>
<p>^No. Not a hook. But being able to live on your own (not boarding school) is impressive.</p>
<p>You try living without the support of family for 2 years, mother****er</p>
<p>…And what kind of mother*<strong><em>ing high school student lives alone? Figure at least you’d have some kind of *</em></strong>in GUIDANCE.</p>
<p>nobody cares.</p>
<p>There are many kids applying from boarding schools. It does tell colleges you can handle being awya from home but it’s not going to matter at top schools where many of the kids will have also studied abroad living with strangers in foreign Countries. This is a dime a dozen now.</p>
<p>You can write an application essay about living with a surrogate family and being far from home. That could turn out well. But I wouldn’t try to make it sound like, “Oh, what hardship, I’m way worse off than anybody else because I went far away to go to boarding school.” If I were an admissions officer, that wouldn’t probably inspire much sympathy in me.</p>
<p>Plenty of high schoolers don’t live with their families, or live on their own. They ones I’ve heard of at my school are not necessarily the kind of students that would be applying to a top college, or any college. But some of them just didn’t want to switch to a different high school for their senior year, but their families had to move away. It doesn’t always turn out well… But I don’t think you need to get angry about the idea. :)</p>
<p>During his senior year, my S lived in China with a non-English speaking family. He did not know a word of Mandarin when he left the states. He was well into the 700s on SAT1 and his SAT2s. I saw him once at Christmas. He wrote a very nice essay on how this adventure was a risk for him but he couldn’t wait for the challenge. A certain foreign service school in DC rejected him saying he did not show “enough of a commitment to foreign language.”
PS He can’t wait to see what his AP Chinese score is.</p>
<p>aznsensazn17, I’ve been living alone for over 4 years. And my family members live across Pacific Ocean. Only had chance to meet them once 2 years ago. So now you can stop insulting other users, please.</p>
<p>You’re an ass and I hope no schools buy into it.</p>
<p>Haha, yall are some lame ass *****es…actually, dont u think we all are for using this website?</p>
<p>AKA…if u have more than 20 posts (oops, i think i have less than that number), u need to get a life and stop worrying so ****in much about gaining admission…i do this b/c i need to see where i stand, not indulge myself in fake promises lol</p>
<p>aaaaaaaaaaaannnd, one more thing…dont tell me what to think cuz ur an international student…and y would u wanna live away from ur parents for that long anyways, esp. for high school</p>
<p>and apologies to anyone who didnt call me an idiot and actually had good enough an attitude to give advice (oops i broke 20 posts)…good day</p>