<p>I have recently been talking to my friends at boarding schools. nd this is what he told me he feels. He says most incoming freshmen are generally well rounded and really academical oriented. However he says that most kids who come in 10th-PG offer something new to the school or what the school needs. For instance athletes, muscisians, and artists or lets just say "major hooks". I wonder what ur thoughts were on this.</p>
<p>bump-- 10 views and no thoughs?</p>
<p>yeah well I suppose he’s right because most of the time before high scool you don’t really have a major hook, you’re stilll figuring out what you’re good at and throughout high school is the time your trying out different things and really figuring out what your “major hook” is</p>
<p>true, he said that most frosh coming in are well rounded but him (soph. repeat for basketball-) said that most kids coming in at 10-pg brought somethuing special to the table</p>
<p>bump- save this thread</p>
<p>i am applying for 10th. I guess I would fall into the category that is well rounded / academic.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t think many of the 10th - PG people have hooks maybe around 15%?</p>
<p>idk to be honest, im just listening to my friend who writes for the phillipian at andover. uhmm nearlly if not all pgs have hooks, and most sophs juniors and incoming seniors seem to bring something special to the table. less in soph. year.</p>
<p>not really 10th grade so much as it is 11th-PG, there are a lot of nyc pre-prep schools that run to 9th grade as traditionally kids go to BS from 10th grade on. ex: buckley allen-stevenson. </p>
<p>i know plenty of 10th graders who got in who did not have a hook at all they were just good students from academically rigorous schools</p>
<p>I am assuming pretty much all PG’s have a hook in athletics. Isn’t that the main reason for PG’s?</p>
<p>uhmm yes and no
some pgs can be muscisians. </p>
<p>hco- do ui think it helps being an athlete for soph repeat yeaR?</p>
<p>No. Maybe some PG’s come from a mediocre high school and the want to further their education before college.</p>
<p>the majority if not all are there for athletics either to get their grades up or to tweak their game so they can play in college.
@musisat
that never happens because kids who went to sub-par high schools would in most cases
need to be scholarship students. schools really dont want PGs who arent going to contribute in some way to the school, so why would they give them a scholarship? they arent going to benefit the school. however, kids who are full pay often do this because maybe they didnt get a high enough score on the SAT, or their grades werent quite as good as they needed to be, so they take a PG year. most of these kids come from good day schools, or suburban high schools in affluent areas.</p>
<p>@ jyun212
most repeats after freshman year are for sports so it does give you an edge i guess. i am too old to repeat 10th grade otherwise i would but i would be 20 when i graduate high school. also almost all hockey recruits are repeats i dont really know about football however</p>
<p>A friend of mine who is definitely doing a PG year at Exeter is not good at sports. Also, I am applying to repeat 11th grade, just for the academics. In fact, that’s what my admissions officer did. (Also, I skipped 2nd grade, so I am a bit younger.)</p>
<p>we’re not sayin all but a majority of them are. a good friend of mine who went to andover for pg year who is going to amherst nextyear on football said like 20 out of the 23 pgs did sports</p>
<p>is she full pay because every single kid that has done a PG year for academics, was full pay i know about 20 or so</p>
<p>exeter is no offense is a nerd school, in the vast majority of cases most kids who repeat after 9th grade are athletes. of course there is are exceptions like yourself.</p>
<p>exeter is a bit nerdy for my taste</p>
<p>i would kill myself at exeter the self-righteous pseudo-intellectuals are some of the most frustrating people in the world. life experiences are what matter not grades. they miss they point of life, they dont see the purpose of learning its not to get good grades or go to harvard but to take knowledge and become a smart independent person who can in turn take their knowledge and wisdom and pass it on to the next generation.</p>
<p>HAHAH </p>
<p>idk which shcool ill end up at or if any</p>
<p>grade grubbers and grinds are fit too walk this earth ahah. they dont get the point of learning i would much rather get bad grades, and come out of BS filled with my own ideas ( not my parents) about the world and have a wealth of real world knowledge, not just book- smarts</p>
<p>bro you get a chance to take a gander at my 1st choice letter</p>