<p>Bumpppp</p>
<p>This wait is killing me!</p>
<p>Agreed, @needtoboard. M10 feels ages away. Only 39 more days!</p>
<p>I can’t decide which feels farther: March for spring or March for decisions…</p>
<p>We’re nearly 1/3 through this waiting period since January 15th!</p>
<p>Applying as a 1-year senior or repeat junior to Loomis, St. George’s, Millbrook, Hotchkiss, and Pomfret. I mainly just chose certain schools for squash. Now that I’ve visited and had tours/interviews with all of them…depending on where I’ll get in…this is going to be the hardest decision of my life.</p>
<p>@needtoboard I know! It’s crazy. Down to 37 from 53… we have to do these 16 days ~2 1/3 more times. When I say it like that, it doesn’t seem too far off.</p>
<p>i’m applying to Deerfield for soph year </p>
<p>Ahhh!!! I can’t wait this long, it’s driving me crazy… I see M10 EVERYWHERE. At any mention of three or ten, my head pops up and my stomach does a double take.</p>
<p>My mom told me that I got a letter from Andover, I didn’t know they had postcards for completion, so I was like, “Is it like an acceptance letter?” My mom’s like yes, and I got so excited, but then she said that oh no, it was a postcard for completion. Like, I knew that decisions come out M10, but really, I swear I’m going nuts…</p>
<p>It’s already February 
!!!
It’s only February 
!!!</p>
<p>@mrnephew I’ve become callous to those letters as a re-applicant. I got the Andover postcard earlier this week. I skimmed over it and threw it in the recycling bin, where it joined the other letters and postcards sent by the other schools I’m applying to. I’ve learned that those cards mean nothing. Zilch. Nada. They send them to every applicant and their brother. </p>
<p>You are wise, sincostan.</p>
<p>The extra year of thinking and learning really does help :D</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, I realized. I got that postcard last year, I think, and I was so excited. My mom said I got a letter, and not a postcard, so I was super excited.</p>
<p>In a sense, those letters are evil. They bring your spirits up while waiting for M10. Then, if you’re WL’d or rejected, which happens to most of the people who apply given the schools’ low acceptance rates, your spirits crash into the ground with the force equivalent to Goku and Vegeta both using the Kamehameha towards each other at the same time, which feels horrible. And I know from experience, so don’t doubt my words, you younglins. </p>
<p>I’m applying to the George School, Middlesex, Choate, Deerfield, Andover, Exeter, Tilton, and Loomis for eleventh grade.</p>
<p>Andover and Lawrenceville 9th grade!</p>
<p>Applying to Episcopal High School and Woodberry Forest School, y’all probably don’t think that those are top notch schools, but below the Mason-Dixon line, these are the best schools around. I visited Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, The Hill, and Lawrencville, and hated EVERY SINGLE ONE, WAY too liberal, even Episcopal was too liberal for me, but I was forced to apply as that is where my sisters both went. The only school that I found remotely ok was Lawrencville, with I ended not applying due to it not being 100% boarding, which is something that I was looking for if I could find the right fit, which is Woodberry, I love that place. Y’all might think that this post is kind of assholish, but I am honestly just voicing my opinion to share with other people worried about getting in places, if you wish to help me, visit my account and look at my chancing post.</p>
<p>@warewofo
That’s an interesting viewpoint. I quite liked those schools because I am a Liberal. However, when at school you can sometimes receive a vibe from the students. The day school near my house’s students were really rude and stuck-up. They didn’t give a crap about the applicants when the boarding school’s kids seems more willing to welcome applicants and chat with them.</p>
<p>I just see that some kids tend to actually follow what their schools want over other students from day schools in a rich neighborhood that think they’re the best.</p>
<p>+1 @rareparadox </p>
<p>This is how I feel at my current day school! I feel like every kid is the same, there is a lack in diversity, the kids are snobs, and there are a lot of kids undeserving of such an education.</p>
<p>@needtoboard
I feel that at my current public school as well. At the day school I got accepted to, my tour guide in the morning was so rude! (she was in the grade I’m applying for). She practically ignored me the entire time and left me with some random people because she “didn’t want me to have to stay with her while she took a test” which is understandable but when she tried to give me to her friends they made up some lame excuse that they would bore me. The whole morning I was being ignored as I sat at some table quietly. The afternoon with the girl in my current grade was much kinder however it was still ultra awkward which I’m guessing that if they cared about their applicants they would make a better effort to try to welcome me? </p>
<p>Maybe I’m being too judgmental but compared to the boarding schools I visited those kids really gave a bad impression of their student body which is a reason why I do NOT want to attend that day school. At the boarding schools they were much more welcoming. </p>
<p>@warewofo L’ville is 100% boarding?</p>