American parents' criteria for studying abroad in high school.

Generally speaking, good school hardware facilities are relatively good, and children will be relatively happy in school. I still hope that my children can learn more when they are sent out of high school and get into a good university. Then I will introduce the criteria for parents studying abroad in American high schools.

Teacher-student ratio

Generally speaking, the average teacher-student ratio of day schools is 1: 12, and that of boarding schools is 1: 7. This means that children can get the attention and guidance of teachers. If this number is too small, it means that children need to work harder because teachers can't take care of American children. As a child in China, how can they take care of you?

Proportion of students in China

In this regard, many parents have a misconception that the fewer children there are in China, the better. In fact, this is not entirely correct. For some schools with poor academic performance, it is really bad for China to have more children. However, if the first four items of a day school are good, then more domestic children show that the school has enough experience in managing international students, which is of great benefit to children studying alone in a foreign land. On the contrary, if they just start recruiting foreign students and lack management experience, there will be a lot of trouble. Moreover, for children, some other children in China are not too lonely. Whether to play with China children or foreign children depends entirely on the children's own personality.

SAT average score

The first priority of sending children to high school in the United States is to hope that their children can go to a good university in the future, so SAT scores are still very important. The average SAT score of private high schools in the United States is about 1500, and the top schools are generally above 2000, but most of these top day schools do not recruit international students, so most of the day schools with SAT above 1800 are good.

Registration requirements

A better day school has higher enrollment requirements. For example, most day schools that reach SSAT 1800 also require TOEFL scores to be around 90, but they are still lower than boarding schools of the same grade. On the other hand, the interview is more important. If you do well in the interview, your score can still fluctuate greatly. Except for some schools that have just started to recruit international students, the simple distinction is that the higher the requirements, the better.

School hardware facilities

Generally speaking, good schools have better hardware facilities. Because the sources of schools are mainly students' tuition fees and alumni donations, students trained by good schools have more money to donate to schools to improve hardware facilities, which is a virtuous circle. On the contrary, the hardware is worse, and it is also true that students spend most of their money on scholarships and grants in some good days.