<p>Can somebody please help me with the application process? I am not sure if I am allowed to use the common recommendation forms found on TABS for HADES schools along with other top boarding schools. On Exeter’s website it states that 10 of these school allow a common english recommendation, math recommendation and school report, but the common school report is not identical to the one provided on Exeter’s website. If you could answer these questions or at least tell me your process it would be great! I really don’t want to have to ask my teachers and headmaster to fill out multiple recommendations.</p>
<p>hey guys do you know if applying to schools that don’t have students from my country (i’m international) will increase my chances a little? because one of my “maybe” choices fits that description, but i’m trying to decide whether or not to apply.</p>
<p>Blehjoints: it will help. To what extent I’m not sure though.</p>
<p>Did anyone start their essays yet?</p>
<p>@98beebee I haven’t! But it’s my last weekend of school visits.</p>
<p>i have like two short answers done from labor day weekend…but I don’t like them anymore so I might rewrite them if I have the time</p>
<p>I feel like I have one school at the really top top of my list, then two (I know…so hard to choose UGH!) schools are tying for second place, and there’s two in a distant third. Only have visited one, though, so who knows which one I’ll like the most after?</p>
<p>I have started my essays, but I have so many schools that I am having to fill out applications for. Yay for me… Ha ha, my main issue is that I just can’t seem to think of anything for some of the questions. Anyone have any tips for finding the perfect answer to a question? Also, I like to write nice, long, detailed, and interesting essays. Not short ones! Also, I am like having essay wars in my house, everyone (Teachers, friends, counselors, parents, etc…) is wanting something different.</p>
<p>Exactly! ^^But I don’t get why you are having essay wars in your house… shouldn’t you be the one writing the essay? I mean, because you’re going to get accepted, WLed, or rejected partially because of essays…so I don’t think teachers, friends, counselors, and parents should be the ones coming up with ideas. You should be the one making the essay decisions. Your essay should be, in the end, something you completely chose and wrote out. Sorry, but that’s just how I feel about essays.</p>
<p>How are applications coming along? I’ve been such a procrastinator. It sickens me.</p>
<p>Heehee, have interviewed already at most schools. Starting teacher recs this week, ssats done already, starting essays this week.</p>
<p>Rizzledrizzle, did you apply to schools last year?</p>
<p>I applied “somewhat” for eighth grade at Groton. Didn’t really interview nor did I send in any applications. So… No. Probably going to interview in December and January, and beg my parents to get started in FA forms!!!</p>
<p>I’ve worked a little on short answer questions. Mostly I have been focusing on studying for the SSAT and getting straight A’s (I think this is my best year academically so far!) However, over Thanksgiving break, I’m going to be working on my apps nonstop. I want to have my essays finished by then so that I can check them with my English teacher. (I already finished my Lawrenceville one! I have to say, I’m proud of my work) I’m going to hand in the rest of my recommendations in the first week of December. I’ve completed all of my visits, and I think/hope they all went well. My trimester ends in around 3 weeks, so after that there will be a lull in academic rigor. There will also be winter break. (a few months back, I promised myself that I wouldn’t be the girl that waited until the last minute… yeah, no.)</p>
<p>If I plan on using the TABS reccommendations for Andover, how would Gateway To Prep Schools know that my teachers filled out the paper one already? Or does Gateway just do it step by step, and I’ll just have to do everything else and skip the recs part of the system?</p>
<p>I’m doing paper apps, and for the reccs. do we ask each teacher to mail it in indivisually, or do they give it to us? How will the schools know which student it’s for?</p>
<p>@americannigerian: The teachers (or the school office) are supposed to send the forms in directly to the school — you are not supposed to see them. The schools know the form is for you because your name is on it…the admissions offices have the rest of your app in a file and just keep adding to it as things come in.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m applying to 10 schools and going to interviews the week after Thanksgiving. My 10 schools in interview order are Deerfield, NMH, Andover, Hotchkiss, Westover, Loomis, Miss Porter’s, Exeter and St. Paul’s. I am only applying to schools with real dance programs. Any opinion about which may be the best school for dance? My mom went to PA and my dad went to Kent, but Kent doesn’t have a dance program, just a club. My uncle and grandfather went to Exeter.</p>
<p>[Deerfield</a> Theater and Dance]( <a href=“http://deerfield.edu/athletics/theater-and-dance/]Deerfield”>http://deerfield.edu/athletics/theater-and-dance/)</p>
<p>[Brighton</a> Beach Memoirs]( <a href=“http://deerfield.edu/2011/11/bringing-comedy-to-campus/]Brighton”>http://deerfield.edu/2011/11/bringing-comedy-to-campus/)</p>
<p>I think Northfield-Mt. Hermon has a strong dance program. George School actually has an IB (International Baccalaureate) certificate program in dance.</p>
<p>I just took an official SSAT practice test and got around a 95%ile :)</p>