What determines whether you are 'international'?

Goldfly
Fri, 30 May 2014 16:30:34 +0000

Hi CC,

So I was wondering what determines if you are an international applicant or not.

Right now I am studying at boarding school in the UK and my parents live in the Philippines but they may move with their company to the US by the time I apply next year. If they then rent a house in the US and have a work visa etc would that make me a home applicant despite studying in the UK?

The reason I ask is because I want to try and avoid this international competition as my top choices, Princeton, Stanford and MIT have very few places for international applicants especially MIT which has an international acceptance rate of about 2-3%, much less than the 8 or so percent for US applicants. Also, would it make it easier to get in if you lived in some sort of catchment area so if my parents move to NJ would it increase my chances of being admitted into Princeton than if the moved to, let’s say CA?

Thank you,

Goldfly