Boarding School Acceptance

Prep School Admissions Prep School Chances
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So I want to apply to a few top boarding schools soon, (Phillips Academy, Choate, Lawrenceville, Deerfield) and I don’t know what I should put in. I am American but I live overseas in Japan. Here’s the list of things I do:
Grades:
Humanities (language arts and social studies): A+
Algebra: A-
Science: A
Japanese: A-
Spanish: A
I haven’t taken the SSAT yet, but my MAP test scores last year were 91% for Language Arts and 74% for math. I have also lived all around the world, and have a foundation in speaking Mandarin Chinese. I take the highest math level for the Middle School.
Extra Curriculars:
Swim Team: swim 3 times a week and am captain of the Middle School swim team
Student Service Leadership Team: taught English over Skype to kids whose families were affected by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Also went on a trip to their hometown to interact with them and give them lessons.
I did student leadership at my last school. I was the student council president in 5th grade and class representative in 6th. The school I am currently in does not have a student council.
I run track in the spring.
I do junior lifeguards during the summer and qualified for the regional championships in open water swimming.
I did Model United Nations in 6th grade and qualified for the traveling team. My new school doesn’t have MUN.
Last year I won an in school poem competition.

Please give me honest feedback on what I could do to make my application better, and if you think I have a chance of getting in. Thanks!!

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You will get in due to being abroad and living in Japan. You also have good ECs. If you are full pay I’d say a very good chance anywhere. There are few students from Japan or with Japanese living experiences.

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@Happytimes2001 be careful of how you go about answering the question. Admission is never guaranteed any where and admission to top boarding schools can be notoriously hard for Asian applicants, as there are so many and they can only take the most qualified.

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I’m actually half white half Hispanic if that helps :slight_smile:

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@cababe97 Actually I never made the assumption the applicant was Asian. She knows that admission is not guaranteed if it were she wouldn’t be asking the question.
Still Cababe97, these are very tough schools, but I still stand by my opinion that you will be accepted due to your international experience in Japan. That is a very rare thing in applicant pools.