<p>tappingprep, you're a girl right?</p>
<p>Yeah. i feel like the only one except for tara.You guys are pretty much all bpys, right?</p>
<p>Hey, all loomis chaffee applcants, there's some very persuading videos there.</p>
<p>*On the website. Sry. It's called voices and places. It's got some cool interviews</p>
<p>Are any of you applying for the 10th grade? I seem to be the only one.
It is said to be easier to get in if you apply for 10th grade?</p>
<p>By the way, the statistic i got about the 14% increase of applicants for exeter was from a current exonian, who spoke with the head of admissions a bit ago. the head of admissions has close ties with the dorm in which my friend lives in. the 14% increase are mostly private school students in the US, i think. Not too sure about public. And no increase in int'l applicants.</p>
<p>yo tara, I've heard from an Exonian on AIM that there are 8 Canadians on campus. Something to look forward to eh?</p>
<p>Come on, there have to be more Canadians. Hockey is the most important sport at the top preps and half the players are Canadian! There is a well know prep school joke because so many of the PGs are Canadians brought in to kick some butt when the hockey team is failing. Most of them are about 20, but they are some of the most popular guys on campus despite their limited intellect!</p>
<p>Tobias Wolff is one of my favorite authors. I loved the Leo Dicaprio movie "This Boy's Life" based on his autobiography. I would love to meet him!!!</p>
<p>Tara - my son is applying for 10th grade. Do you think that it is easier to get in?</p>
<p>I'll take a shot at that. As a tenth grade admit, I found that some of my peers who applied for 9th and didn't get in made it the second time around. I don't know if this is because of better transcripts, EC's, or what, but the new 10th graders certainly didn't seem any less talented than the original group.</p>
<p>Just don't apply for 11th grade. THat's the hardest year of high school, and admissions officers screen 11th grade applicants very closely.</p>
<p>My son started at his latest school in 11th grade. There were only about 4 spots open for 11th graders. He and his roommate are both repeat 11th graders. The school wants the kids there for at least 2 years. This helps with the whole college process, and also is beneficial athletically, in the cases of my son and his roommate. There are enough new kids coming into boarding school every year that the adjustment was easy. There were new kids in every grade level (except 12), including about 18 PGs. S gets to take some interesting courses and has some maturity that he didn't used to have! He is academically at the top of his class, so that part went fine.</p>
<p>I'll be applying for the 11th grade. But really, the people who should be scared are the Senior applicants. Exeter admitted no male seniors last year, and only 2 female seniors. However, they've admitted 20-30+ of each male and female Juniors. Sophomores; more people in. And the most; freshman. I would assume the same things happened at Taft and Hotchkiss.</p>
<p>augh.</p>
<p>I'm a tenth grade applicant.</p>
<p>What the hell. I'm smart. I deserve to be there as much as anybody. Hopefully, one school will see that.</p>
<p>I have to keep telling myself that.</p>
<p>alright new topic. I feel like giving a good thanks to these three schools I'm applying to. Thank you cards have been mentioned before, but obviously, I would think it's a little too awkward and a little too late for that. So opinion: When should I make my next move to give a thank you card/letter or a form of thanks?</p>
<p>I wouldn't do thank you cards . they're so formal. I gave out christmas cards saying the pc season's greetings. Send thank you cards when you get in</p>
<p>Don't be shy about contacting your interviewer. An email saying how much you're looking forward to hearing, or commenting about the winning hockey season is just fine.</p>
<p>Absolutely do thank you cards. I dunno. Put a early date on them, so you dont look like a slacker.</p>
<p>Just kidding.</p>
<p>Seriously though, do thank you cards. Just dont write anything too formal. And it may not be bad to do them late- you'll get them to remember who you are after the fact. It may help your admission chances. Remember to be polite, but not stuffy. Try an add in things you talked about in your interviews. I know in my interviews, we were really friendly and chatted about a lot of different things (his daughter's current theatre show... so forth). Mention those, because that will make you come out as a person, not to mention it will impress them that you cared enough to remember. Send thank you notes after to both the schools you are accepted and to those you are rejected to. Its good form.</p>
<p>If you really dont want to do that, come up with a question you want to ask about their school. If your interviewers were like mine, you have their card and thus their email. Send them an email starting with a paragraph that runs something like "I dont think I ever thanked you for your time and conversation during your interview on _______....". Procede to write a thank you note, and then add on your question after.</p>
<p>Hmm... competition for these schools really is extremely tight.
I have an SSAT score of 99%, 99% Verbal and Reading, and 98% Math.
I'm living in Arizona, I've a 3.8GPA non-weighted(I got hit first semester frosh year with a B+ in HAlg2Trig), I'm taking mainly college level and AP classes, and my extracurriculars include:
Honors French club
Swimming (made regionals)
Community service (teaching African refugee children to read English), and
Teching for theatre (I've been asked to do some work doing design work at the University, plus approx. 30 hrs/wk on a normal basis)
I think my teacher recommendations are pretty good, too.
Does anyone see any areas where I might have problems?</p>
<p>Nonewhatsoever. However, it would have been nice if you didn't rub it in our faces with that last comment.That's pretty cool though how you tech for theatres. Actually it's all cool. What schools will you be getting into, assuming you will get in?girl or boy? did you have good interviews?</p>
<p>Sorry about that; I'm just a bit nervous. :) Oh, I'm a girl, btw.
I'm applying for Exeter (my fav., by far, not sure why, just felt right), St. Paul's, Deerfield, Lawrenceville, Concord Academy (mum went there) and Hotchkiss.
Interviews went really well pretty much everywhere; the lady that interviewed me at Exeter even remembered me the second time my family went up there. Hope that's a good thing!
Good luck getting into whichever schools you've applied for, btw.</p>