<p>Any of you guys done it/ are you doing it right now?
What were your reasons?
Did you get in?
How did your home school react?</p>
<p>My experience has been pretty awkward so far... school wasn't expecting it/ definetely isn't too happy about it</p>
<p>heyyy i'm applying as 11th too! whooot. My teachers were surprised but they were excited for me haha. One of my teachers told me two of her friends went to hotchkiss and she told me a little bit about bs. It was cool.</p>
<p>ahh same w/ me- i kinda got that feeling too. im not official 'home schooled' but it is a bit like unschooling. </p>
<p>OMG its soo freaking hard getting recs!! i just dont understand why some ppl are so hesitant to take a look at them, imean all they have to do basically is to fill out some check boxes. also, in my experience it seems as though some teachers take it as a personal offense that u want to leave. >.<</p>
<p>everyone in my school (teachers + guidance counselour) was surprised and they were excited (i know.. i said the same thing as milcherry haha).
done with the applications.</p>
<p>I can help!</p>
<p>I applied as an incoming junior to a lot of schools. I had very different reactions, not always in synch with what I expected.</p>
<p>For example:
Suffield, Taft, HK, Westover, Bershire, Vermont: Accepted
Cushing, Chase: Waitlisted
Gunnery: Denied</p>
<p>Doesn't make much sense, does it? Well, get excellent recs (I did) and have some stellar grades. A school's main concern is that you won't be able to handle the courseload. Show them in whatever way you can that you are able to handle anything.</p>
<p>Iris, which school did you choose?</p>
<p>That's really funny you were rejected at Gunnery but accepted at the others!</p>
<p>iris eyes, haha that is weird. was it hard for you to adjust and get to know everyone and stuff?</p>
<p>my apps are all in, but i still wonder if it's a bad idea to switch this late...</p>
<p>Accepted at Taft, WL'ed at Cushing (?!?) and denied at Gunnery.</p>
<p>Somebody's pulling our leg , or you threw up on the DA at Gunnery.</p>
<p>so?? I dont see how it cant happen</p>
<p>I got into Andover, exeter, SPS, Choate, Hotchkiss, Milton and Lawrenceville
Waitlisted Deerfield and......TAFT lol
then worse,,rejected Concord and Trinity Pawling </p>
<p>schools can more or less guess whether you are likely to go or not....i m pretty sure Taft waitlisted and TP rejected me becoz i told both the dean of admissions who interviewed me my list of schools honestly</p>
<p>can you tell us why you chose hotchkiss?</p>
<p>Sorry for not responding sooner.</p>
<p>Actually, I thought my interview at the Gunnery went really well. My whole being rejected was bizarre, but I believe it had more to do with their prejudices than anything. Several other qualified students from my school applied as new juniors and were all rejected. Keep in mind that my old school was a therapeutic boarding school in Montana.</p>
<p>I guess the much more elite schools were willing to take a risk. I ended up at Westover, my old novio went to Brewster, a female friend went to Taft and another guy went to Andover. We all went to places far more selective than the Gunnery.</p>
<p>Interviews, I guess, don't count for as much as we think. My one at Westover went BADLY. I was wearing a very uncomfortable pair of new Cole Haan heels, and in the interview, tired from trekking across New England for days, I asked if I could take them off and sat in seizu position on the couch. Oh, dear god. I had forgotten all about it until, when I arrived here this fall, the admissions office reminded me about it.</p>
<p>I was actually bummed about Cushing. It's a dreadful school, and I would never seriously consider going there, but I'm a jeweler, and they do have a great jewelry studio.</p>
<p>It was hard to adjust, yes. Mostly, I was unprepared for the course load. No matter what school you go to, the work will be harder than anything you've done before at a non-boarding school. Westover's academic intensity is on the same par as Exeter's, etc., so I was completely shellshocked my first week there. In addition, it turned out that I lacked the prerequisites in EVERY class I took. Let's see here...</p>
<ol>
<li>Honors Precal: The last math class I took was two years ago...and it was Trig. I never took Algebra II, Geometry, etc. This SUCKED.</li>
<li>English III: After taking AP English sophmore year, I was DELIGHTED to find that I knew nothing about grammar...just how to use it. Prepositional phrase what?...</li>
<li>Spanish II: To prepare for the equivalent of a third or fourth year spanish class, after never taking spanish in my life, I took a summer course. Yes.</li>
</ol>
<p>So that's just a little byte of the nonsense I went in with. However, I worked my skin off and made it onto high honor roll my first term there. I will probably make high honors with distinction (the highest level) this term, so yay.</p>
<p>I guess the message of this post is that getting in is only half the battle.</p>
<p>oh my god that's hilarious... yo took off your shoes! hahahhahaha.. i guess they thought you were uninhibited and comfortable with yourself.. i would have been mortified if i remembered i did that.. well, you got in!</p>
<p>Accepted at Hotchkiss, Andover, Exeter, L'Ville etc.
Rejected by T-P.</p>
<p>I'm calling BS.</p>
<p>Good point Bearcats no one else has talked about which is yield. I also didn't get into the easiest school I applied to. Yield matters. When you don't show up on camous for an interview and have strong stats, they know you're going somewhere else.</p>
<p>it's also smart on their part coz if they knew you wouldnt go there, why not use you as a model to set a tone "see how hard it is to get in here, the best kid at your school got rejected"</p>
<p>No, FIF, it's possible. Schools hesitate to admit overqualified students. Why waste an open spot on a kid who is obviously not going to condescend to that school?</p>