With the release of American boarding high schools in the new season, the admission standards have also reached a new high in recent years. This year, most top boarding high schools admitted students with TOEFL scores over 65,438+000, and the percentage of Ssat exams exceeded 90%. To apply for the top 30 universities in the United States, TOEFL scores are just that. 14, 15-year-old junior high school children can reach this standard is not easy.

The direct cause of this situation is that the number of China students who apply to attend high schools in the United States has increased dramatically year by year. Take American boarding middle schools that have a soft spot for China students as an example. A school enrolls 4 to 10 students in China every year, but the number of applicants is often as high as 200 to 300, and the admission ratio ranges from 30: 1 to 40: 1. The competition is the fiercest, even one in a hundred. For example, Taibo Middle School enrolled six China students this autumn and received more than 265,438+00 applications. However, Taft Middle School only enrolled 65,438+070 students this year, including local students and international students, but received more than 65,438+0,500 applications, quite a few of which were applicants from Chinese mainland. It can be seen that it will become more and more difficult to go to boarding high schools in the United States, especially elite schools.

2. Have both wealth and talent

Studying in a private high school in the United States costs about $30,000-$40,000 a year. Plus living expenses, the expenses for four years are about 6,543.8+0,000 yuan to 6,543.8+0.5 million yuan, which is definitely not a small number for ordinary working families. Therefore, in the traditional concept, most students who choose to go to high school in the United States are well-off, but their grades are below average and they cannot pass the domestic senior high school entrance examination. That was not the case. Judging from the situation in the past two years, the admission standards of American high schools are rising, especially the doors of famous schools, which are far from being broken by money. Students with the dream of a prestigious school must have both ability and political integrity, not only strong family economic strength, but also excellent learning ability and comprehensive quality. In addition, those students who are active and have a wide range of interests, but are not particularly top-notch in their studies, will soon find confidence and have considerable potential under the American education system.

This year's admission results also show a new trend-some top private high schools attach great importance to the applicant's family background and their own international background. For example, a famous private school ranked TOP 10 enrolled seven students in Chinese mainland, most of whom received first-class international education from a very young age to prepare for studying abroad. The parents of these children include well-known real estate tycoons and CEOs of fortune 500 companies. It can be seen that the background, achievements and financial resources are indispensable for studying in middle schools in the United States.