<p>280w, yes, parents do participate. Part of the day the parents are attending a sampling of classes, while the students are doing various things arround campus. Later in the day the parents and students meet up and they have a program for everyone. Better yet here is a real revisit day from last year.</p>
<p>Students</p>
<p>8:15a Meet host
8:45a Choice of class ( this is usually what interests you)
9:30a Program in chapel ( Ensemble and choris)
10:00a Choice of class
10:45a Choice of class, panel in theater, or Math/Science presentation
11:30a Lunch with host
12:15a Meet parents for departure</p>
<p>Diruing this day they will have a full day of athletic events that you are welcome to stay and observe.</p>
<p>The parents section is similar, except they have lunch with faculty and other students. I hope this is helpful.</p>
<p>280W here's another one we attended. I will give you the student program only.
8:15a registration/ refreshments
8:30a Welcome and opening remarks from school head and admin director
9:05-9:50a academic overview
10-10:50a faculty and student panel on residential life
10:55-11:40a a closer look (choose one), The arts, or athleics
11:50-12:35 teaching and learning
12:35- 1p lunch
1-1:30p activities fair
1:30p concert and closing remarks
280W and crew, I hope this is helpful. i could not locate any other schedulsbut they are all very similar. I highly recomend even if you have one choice. this will reinforce your choice. Good Luck!</p>
<p>280W, I made a boo boo on the previous entry. I gave you the parent portion. From 10a to 12:35 you attend three different classes. At 9:05 to 9:50a instead of academic overview, you'll have faculty and student panel on residential life.
As for dress, students are reminded that classroom dress does not include blue jeans or T-shirts. By the way, each school will have two seperate dates to choose.</p>
<p>10-10:50a faculty and student panel on residential life</p>
<p>A panel? Just talking? Or do they grill you? Or do you grill them?</p>
<p>This sounds pretty neat. It also sounds like a pain in the a$$ for me, since we already drove up to Massachusetts/New Hampshire from North Carolina. Not a fun drive. I suppose it is worth it though.</p>
<p>When you say 'choice of classes'- how does that work? Does your host not go to her classes, and just sheperds you around?</p>
<p>tj, as I recall, school was in session at the time of our visit. you as the new student can choose various classes to attend. As for the panel sessions, they are very informative and alot of love is all arround. You are the center of the universe. Each panel member will discuss various aspects of the school. You then have the opportunity to ask questions. Remember, they know you have other choices, they want to show you the best time possible so you will enroll in their school. The minute you set foot on the campus you become the center of all attention.</p>
<p>At Exeter, they call the day you visit "Experience Exeter." When the student and parent(s) arrive, they are greeted by someone from the Admissions Office (in our case, the person the our son interviewed with). The student is then wisked off to spend the day with a student of similar interests/age/region. Our son attended classes in the morning and went to lunch with his "guide." As parents, we attended a question/answer session with the school principal and other administrators, then were given the opportunity to attend class. I'll never forget the English class I sat in on and how impressed I was with the students as well as the instructor and how she guided the discussion. My son ended up having that very instructor for two terms his Upper (Junior) year. What I saw that day was dead on to what the actual "Exeter Experience" truly is.</p>
<p>Hey! I'm applying for the New Englands schools too! I'm going for choate, loomis, taft and westover.
What i want to know is, what r my chances if I got a 93%ile and for ec's i have:
1.Chorus
2.Dance Club
3.tap
I go to a really bad school in la so ec are limited. I had some great interviews too!Im so worried</p>
<p>I'm just curious, but everybody let's post our "stats" here, e.g. location, what grade you're in right now, what schools applying, GPA/grades/class rank, SSAT, Extracurriculars, Awards, etc. etc.</p>
<p>I'll start...</p>
<p>Location: Northboro, MA
Applying to: Exeter, Andover
Grade right now: 10
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted
Class rank: 1/~300
SSAT: 96 Reading, 99 Verbal, 99 Math, 99 Overall
PSAT: 99 Reading, 99.9 Verbal, 99.9 Math, 99.9 Overall</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-- Western Massachusetts All-Star Math Team, Co-Captain
-- Northboro Extended-Day Program (an afterschool program), Counselor
-- FIRST Robotics Team: design/program/construct a robot for ~ 10 hours a week for competitions
-- Varsity Cross-Country
-- Varsity Indoor Track
-- Varsity Outdoor Track
-- Piano: Performed @ 3 public concerts, and volunteer to perform @ a local senior center once a month
-- Peer-Tutoring Program: peer tutor in math</p>
<p>Awards - mostly math awards:</p>
<p>Grade 8:
-- Massachusetts MATHCOUNTS Competition: 4th place
-- Represented Massachusetts @ Nationals
-- National MATHCOUNTS Competition: 85th place </p>
<p>Grade 9:
-- New England Math League HS Contest: 3rd place
-- New England Association of Math Leagues: 1st place
-- Worcester County Math League: 1st place
-- AMC 10B: 1st place in Massachusetts, 5th place in USA</p>
<p>Wow long post...everybody post their stats!</p>
<p>Omg, techno 10. I suck. You got a 99%ile!
Did any of you guys get stuffabout activities? I got singing stuff from them all. Perhaps it's just building us up to fall harder. And all Taft applicants, on the letter the sent to u saying how they got all ur application stuff, what did they write?</p>
<p>Extra stats:4.0, tutor algebra, practicing soprano since the 1st grade, tap for 3 years, thice a week, Dance club twice a week, chorus at lunch,used to do a lot in theatre and dancing(ballet, gymnastics, tap, jazz)but i got out of it when imoved to montana because there were no dance studios.I dont have many awards cause iwas homeschooled a lot of my school career. best student in my grade out of a couple hundred, im not sure.Did piano, acting lessons, crotcheting club which i taught in( i know,nerdy). I listed a lot more stuff on my app but i'[m too lazyto remember.</p>
<p>Hey, does anyone know much about the community atChoate? That's my first choice, and I want to know as much as possible about it.
(Did anyone see their theatres?I saw all ready for a christmas carol when i went and it looks like heaven. I only hope i can get in to have fun on it)</p>
<p>Exeter has 14% increase of applications this year. No increase in international applicants though. The 14% came from American private schools, mostly.</p>