<p>nope, not in my area...</p>
<p>not that I am aware of</p>
<p>That;s the first i have heard of........</p>
<p>Okay, so the state boarding schools I know about for young people who like science and math (like my son) are the ones in Illinois[/url</a>], [url=<a href="http://www.scgssm.org/%5DSouth">http://www.scgssm.org/]South</a> Carolina, and North</a> Carolina<a href="which%20claims%20to%20be%20the%20first%20of%20its%20kind">/url</a>. I am not aware of any such school closer to where I live. I see the South Carolina school is only for eleventh- and twelfth-graders, which is the age served in my state by the postsecondary enrollment options ([url=<a href="http://www.mheso.state.mn.us/mPg.cfm?pageID=797%5DPSEO%5B/url%5D">http://www.mheso.state.mn.us/mPg.cfm?pageID=797]PSEO</a>) program. </p>
<p>So we are looking at the privately operated out-of-state boarding schools for lack of anything of that kind in our state for younger, math-liking students.</p>
<p>In our city we have magnet schools...........One is called Health careers high school, another for computer tech, etc</p>
<p>Hey! I'm new to the forum...I'm an 8th grader applying to 7 schools... but my number 1 is groton. I am going to post my stats, could you guys tell me if you think I will get in.. Thank you!!!</p>
<p>I don't need financial aid.
Geographic location-- I go to a school where no one has ever gone to prep school, and 1 person in my town has gone to prep school in the last 10 years. Should help..?</p>
<p>I have been on the high honor roll since I can remember.
this year 96 average with 2 9th grade courses ( all the advances courses offered at my school)</p>
<p>Member of John Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth
Taking an online math and science course through them</p>
<p>Interviews went exxxxxxxxttrreeemmmeeellly well.</p>
<p>Outstanding English teacher Rec
and 2 other great recs</p>
<p>my cty teacher is sending a letter of rec</p>
<p>and my parent statement is also very well written</p>
<p>not sure of ssat scores yet.</p>
<p>Outstanding soccer player (ODP, club, and varsity soccer in 8th grade.)
Great basketball and softball player also.</p>
<p>soccer should help i think.. was discussed in depth in the interview.</p>
<p>student council, altar serving, forensics (public speaking), and snare drum</p>
<p>and I attened Phillips Exeter Academy Summer school</p>
<p>Thanks for your Help!</p>
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<p>So are you an athletic admit? Is that why you bring up your sports? You sound good but without knowing your scores it is not so easy to guess. I am sure you know what the admit stats are right? Why did you go to Exeter for the summer? Academic or sports?</p>
<p>I am very athletic but I am also very strong academically.</p>
<p>I went to Exeter for an interesting, diverse, and amazing summer of academics, athletics, and social activities.</p>
<p>So you have not spoken with any coaches?</p>
<p>Gorton, what other schools have you applied? Good Luck!</p>
<p>Groton, you certainly sound confident and upbeat. Providing you have decent SSAT scores and you have a personality type fit, meaning no surprises with your character...........you seem competitive.</p>
<p>Thank so much everyone!! I didn't expect so many encouraging responses! I took my ssats on Saturday. "Groton, you certainly sound confident and upbeat" Well, thank you very much prepparent! I am just so excited and overjoyed that God has given me this opportunity. I really don't think students at these elite boarding schools realize how lucky they are! I would give just about anything to go to one of these schools, but I guess my admission is in God's hands now. Hazmat, yes I have gotten many emails from interested coaches!</p>
<p>Thanks again to everyone</p>
<p>Best of luck and let us know.........you will love being at BS. You are also right about it being a very wonderful thing to have the opportunity. I am very happy for you.</p>
<p>GetMeIntoGroton: apply to Andover! we would love to have a kid like you, I'm very impresssed that you are able to take two online CTY courses in addition to your additional course load. And you'd love our soccer program, our leading scorer this year was an All-American and we have a freshman phenom who is the star player for inner-city Boston, one of the best club teams in America. different sports division andOne thing you might consider about Groton is its small size and how that affects the athletic program.</p>
<p>I think Groton is an excellent school... and size may be one of its Advantages instead of the disadvantage, but i'm still applying to both just in case</p>
<p>I agree..........I like the smaller schools......Groton, Middlesex, St. George's, etc</p>
<p>I asked my wife the other day to remind me how big her boarding school graduating class was. She was in a school, typical of that time in her country, with 60 students per classroom. The senior class had two classrooms of girls, and two of boys, so a graduating class of c. 240 kids--and six classes on campus (three junior high, three senior high) at any one time. Junior high was co-ed classes, senior high was single-sex classes, so my wife got to know her girl classmates pretty well, especially if they were boarders as she was. That sounds about the same size as the schools we are looking at for our son--which look a lot smaller than the public school I graduated from, a three-year senior high with a graduating class of more than 600--maybe it was more than 700, none of my classmates could remember at our recent reunion--back in the 1970s.</p>
<p>Everyone has a preference and luckily for all boarding school applicants a wide diversity in size exists......many choices.</p>
<p>Anybody think about Loomis?</p>
<p>I'm a senior at LC and it's really great. If you're looking for a well-rounded school with great community, LC is it. Plus, we are the BEST prep school for science. Literally. I don't know any school that surpasses us in Biology, and very few do in chem/physics.</p>
<p>Karabas, LC is also a beautiful campus......... My d applied and was accepted but chose another school. In the end it came down to the size of the community and the % of boarders.</p>