<p>Hi Everyone,
This is probably my first post in 3 months! I am happy to be back on CC. Like many of you, I am also getting ready to take part in next year's admission cycle, and I am applying for sophomore year. I participated in last year's cycle and ended up going nowhere.
This year, I transferred from a previous public school, to a local private school since the private school offered full FA to me. My parents are not sure whether this school is academically challenging enough for me, so they are not allowing me to start apply until December(I must also receive straight A's until December, which should be easy).
My question:
Is that enough time to apply to boarding school?( I plan to apply to Choate and NMH. . . but maybe more)
I have explained to my parents that the usual admission process begins in at least August, but they disagree. Do you think I should go ahead and request information from the schools during June or July, or just wait until December?</p>
<p>It would be wise to order viewbooks and schedule interviews for December earlier (and perhaps register for the SSAT - maybe you could get a fee waiver?). Then, if you meet the conditions your parents have set, you’ll be all set to apply. If you don’t meet those condition, or you find that you love your new school, you will have only taken the SSAT. You can still cancel the interview appointments and recycle the viewbooks.</p>
<p>To simplify, tell your parents that you need to be READY to apply in December by having the tours scheduled and the SSAT taken. I’m sure the schools would have no problem filling in a canceled December interview. You can usually find the applications online in late September and go ahead and start your essays. Have the rec forms READY to give your teachers before Christmas break. If you do all those things, you shouldn’t have any problems getting your apps in on time.</p>
<p>Good luck this time and congratulations on the scholarship to the day school!</p>
<p>Afterthought - if you did well on the SSAT this past year, you can plan on doing at least as well this next time so a December sitting would still be fine.</p>
<p>Question: If I am in 9th grade now and will be going into 10th next year, what should I say for my current grade when filling out inquiry forms? Should I write I am in 9th applying for 10th or that I am in 10th applying for 10th. If I say 9th will they know that I am repeating.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, neatoburrito.
I think I’ll do exactly that. I am actually hoping to better at the SSAT this year, because my 92% last year was pretty disappointing, and I’m pretty sure it affected my admissions decision. I decided yesterday to also apply to Middlesex School, which seemed like a great small school.</p>
<p>A 92% SSAT surely won’t “affect” your results. If you want to be admitted this year, please stop complaining about your standardized test scores. Improve your EC, spend more time writing your essays will help.</p>
<p>Good advice, gonnastop.
Last year, one of my major mistakes was the fact I didn’t ask my English teacher to review my essays. I’ll make sure I’ll do that this year.
Btw, a 99% on SSAT doesn’t hurt.</p>
<p>Yeah, your ssat score likely had nothing to do with your decisions. I’m fairly confident that at all of your schools, they looked at your ssat results, said “Yup” and didn’t give them a second thought.</p>
<p>Many on this board have actually contacted admissions when they were unsuccessful in order to gain feedback. I have not so I cannot offer any specific advice, but perhaps your parents could call to see what would make your application stronger this year. Sometimes, I suspect a rogue teacher rec can sabotage an app. It might be worth looking in to.</p>
<p>I was told, however, that my son’s application strengths were his interviews and essays, if that helps at all.</p>
<p>Hey neato,
I thought my math teacher probably messed up my application last year, because I barely knew her at all.</p>