<p>For the last two years, I noticed something about admissions to top tier schools. It seems that people who attend local schools have a greater chance of being admitted than people in international schools from the same country. Is that true or a coincidence?</p>
<p>Do you know enough students from both local and international schools to make a comparison? Are the local and international schools and the applicants from both comparable in the first place? For example, I wouldn’t be surprised if colleges chose an A-Level applicant from the local school over an applicant with an American high school diploma and few APs from an international school. I also wouldn’t be surprised if many kids with varying academic backgrounds from the international school wanted to attend an American college while only few, on average better students from the local school might have the same goal.</p>
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