Can parents request that their child is not in a dorm with another student of the same nationality?

 No. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that international boarders will not be placed in a room with a student of the same nationality.

We avoid it as often as we can, however, room allocations are a delicate matter and are always carefully assigned taking into account the needs and requests of all boarders, including our existing UK boarders and long-term international Boarders. Depending on how many Boarders we have coming from the same country we are unable to promise that they will share with English students only or only with boarders of a different nationality to their own.