A Few Concerns

Prep School Admissions
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<p>I don't want this to sound like a generic "Rate Me" thread (though I know it will), but I have a couple questions. I am in 9th grade at a Private School taking all Honors classes (the highest level available) seeking 10th grade at a boarding school.</p>

<p>Here is the skeleton-bone quick-view of my statistics:</p>

<p>SSAT:
Verbal: 99%
Reading: 98%
Math: 45% (I think I mismarked)
Overall: 97%</p>

<p>Grades (From Semester 1 of 9th grade):
Latin II H: 99 (exam= 100)
Mathematical Physics H: 97 (exam=100)
Literary Heroes H: 93 (exam=93)
Ancient World History H: 94 (exam= 98)
Geometry H: 88 (exam= 88)
Introduction to Art</p>

<p>These average to: 94.2 or at my school a 4.62 GPA, which I think is 3.8? I'm not sure.
In 7th grade I had straight A's, and in semester 1 eighth grade I had 3 B's, but second semester I had straight A's.
EC:
Board Member of Girl's Education Mission in Africa
Model UN (4 times; Honorable Delegate award)
Duke TIP (Talent Identification Program)
Tufts EPIIC Inquiry (Kind of like Model UN)
Tufts IGL High School Program (Educational Trip to Shanghai this year)
Lacrosse (JV)
Recreational Tennis
Entries in School Literary Magazine</p>

<p>I applied to: Groton, Milton, Brooks, and Phillips Andover
I was accepted at: Brooks, Milton, and Phillips Andover and waitlisted at Groton.</p>

<p>I tend to like English and History the most and I am making the choice between these schools. Based on the little information I gave you, what is the best choice for me? And, because I am puzzled, is Groton better than the others and is that why I wasn't accepted?</p>

<p>I never visited Andover so I'm not sure what it's like but its courses seem great. Also, how many semesters or trimesters s a credit? I don't care how big the school is, just about what it does to bring the community together and where its emphasis lies.</p>

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<p>It does not matter why you were not accepted at a particular school. It’s over, put it behind you. Spend your energy assessing your three great remaining choices and finding the right place for you.</p>

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<p>Each school had a mission to bring in students to fill intellectual, artistic, cultural, and athletic holes in the community (I might have missed some holes that needed plugging).
Now it’s your turn to figure out where you are going to be most needed, appreciated and can grow to be the person you desire to be.
The rest is water under the bridge.</p>

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<p>I would choose Andover.
im so jealous you got in. it was my dream. i was applying for 10th too.</p>

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<p>Compared to Andover, Groton is a tiny school and yet it is still one of the top rated and most sought after. So perhaps their acceptance rate is smaller due to the number of spaces they have available. That could be one reason you weren’t accepted there.</p>

<p>You should go to the revisit days at Andover if you haven’t been there before. It is a beautiful campus but very big. You need to experience it to really determine if you want to spend the next four years there.</p>