(Please excuse my brevity). I was recently accepted to a school in New Hampshire for ninth grade that I am having second thoughts about and am currently waiting for a response from a school I was wait listed at. If I am not accepted to the school I am currently wait listed at I will have no choice but to attend the school in NH. I was just wondering that if I do attend this school how should I prepare for next years admissions? Also will the schools I apply to in 2016 (if I am not denied to the school I am currently wait listed at) look at my grades from middle schools and old SSAT scores? Or will they only look at my ninth grade transcript and rely on a new SSAT score?
Sorry about my English I am Italian.
You will have to apply all over again, which means new SSAT scores, transcripts, recommendations etc. And you will need to this this in the fall (of course) at a new school. so you won’t have given that new school a chance really, but that’s up to you. Anyway, most schools ask for current semester grades (so, 9th grade at new school) and at least a full year of prior grades (from your current MS).
It’s unheard of to transfer from one boarding school to another in New England, because the staff & faculty would not like it if a student is just looking to get into another school and using them as a “stepping stone.” I think the recommendations might reflect that, even if you’re a great student, because they wouldn’t want you to leave. I personally think you should apply from a public/magnet school.
@rachmaninoff3 It’s certainly not unheard of, to be honest and I really do not think that a teacher would personally botch a recommendation because you are considering leaving. That would be wildly inappropriate.
I see, then maybe it would be a little mediocre.
Ummm, no it’s not.
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S/he said that s/he’s Italian. School systems around the world are not based upon the American model.
To the original poster, I’m not sure why you already feel that you would want to transfer from a school to which you’ve been accepted. If you do not want to attend, then you probably should not have applied there. If it were me I would not go to a school with the mindset that I’m transferring after a year.
Well, I’m just saying that if someone wants to transfer to a similar boarding school, it might be a little iffy.
In defense of boarding school teachers everywhere…
We do write transfer recommendations. We even write GLOWING transfer recommendations. Boarding School is not a cult. We genuinely like our kids and want them to thrive, even if that means leaving our school. If I’m asked to write an honest, professional opinion about the capabilities of a student, I’m going to do that. I understand why the many 13 year olds who answer questions on this site think that teachers are as vindictive as middle schoolers, but in a long career at independent schools, I have yet to meet a teacher who would scuttle a recommendation because “they didn’t want you to leave.”
I know of kids who have transferred, for legitimate “fit” reasons, so it definitely happens. It just might be tough to do in your first semester.
When I visited their campus for a second time (Re-Visit Day) a lot of things I didn’t know came up. Like how some students got kicked for doing drugs. So it changed my opinion about the school.
sorry I am a little confused, you want to transfer out after a year because they kick some kids out because of drugs?
This happens every year at every school. The fact that the school kicks the kids out would be a positive in my book, because you will not find a HS, boarding or otherwise, in America where kids do not do drugs.