<p>I have a friend who is considering sending her daughter to the UK boarding school Malvern College. She is undecided, however, because she is afraid that Malvern won’t know about the below-Ivy tier of American universities. Does anyone have experience with Malvern or UK boarding school admissions to US colleges and universities? The student would be going for an IB diploma, although her mother says that she is NOT Ivy caliber, just a good student.</p>
<p>I’m quite close to Malvern but know nothing about the school so I can’t really comment.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s just my interpretation of your post but it seems like she wants to send the kid to the school for the glory of being able to say her child is off to prestigious American college. Is her daughter transferring from a regular school to the boarding school or is she not yet at the admissions age? If the second, that means she’s not even 11 yet and if her mother is already deeming her “not Ivy caliber” then I think that’s a little unfair.</p>
<p>To clarify: this family is Canadian, with a house and green cards in the US. And the daughter is about 16 years old</p>
<p>The daughter is finishing her second year of high school in Eastern Europe (the family had to move there temporarily because of a job assignment), but my friend is not happy with the school. The decision is either to come back to the States (her daughter got into a good day school in the home area) or to stay in Europe, albeit not in the same country. My friend is not concerned with the “prestigious American college,” and is instead concerned with college in general. That is, could a UK private college/high school help with non-top tier American colleges? The ten or so students that Malvern send to the US tend to go to Ivies and the ilk. The question is how much Malvern knows about the UNusual suspects in the US. For example, would Malvern know the requirements for Villanova or UNC or Dickinson?</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification there.</p>
<p>Well if they send 10 or so people to the US to the top top schools then I’d say they probably know how to get kids into the slightly lower ranked ones as well. Those colleges you mentioned may not be Ivies but they’re still highly selective so they’ll be looking for similar attributes and will also accept the IB.</p>