<p>amen to that.</p>
<p>that's what people who like abercrombie around america are like... wannabes. that's what the brand markets itself to. it trys to sell a lifestyle to kids with big dreams for themselves.</p>
<p>i do hope that you realize... prep schools aren't like that. at all. abercrombie is not well regarded by actual "preps." and if you want a school where people wear and idolize mall clothes, you would be best suited at a public school in the suburbs.</p>
<p>I didnt start this thread to be about my user name so please be courtious, and not rude. I am not a wannabee and I do not idolize "mall clothes". I have a 4.0 (curently, usualy areound a 3.75 or so) and I am very involved in drama. I do like abercrombie but that is all. It is simply were I chose to spend my money. Just to clear up any sterotypes, I am not rich(I need financial aid), and I am not rude. I hang out with a very diverse group of people and we are often considered the "nerds or more studious people", only one or two of my friends were abercrombie. I want to go to a prep school to further my education and so I have the best possible backround for my future career as a pediatric oncologist, for those of you who do not know that is someone who cares for children with cancer and treats them. So if you are willing to help me out and be polite, it is much appreciated. Thank You!</p>
<p>Okay so my stats:
4.0 or a 3.75, I am usually somewhere in between.
Main roles in drama.
I play the violin.
In choir 6 years.
Volunteer often.
Student council.
One year ahead in math.
Gifted track.
Field Hockey (7th grade)
Track
Art club, drama club, nature club.
I tutor.
Honor role.
Math award.
no SSAT yet but on standardized testing I scored in 99% and 100% percentiles.</p>
<p>Gifted Track? 100th percentile? Never heard of those.</p>
<p>but anyway those are pretty good EC's...</p>
<p>BTW - I almost always score in the 99th percentile on standardized tests and got a 40 on the SSAT (50 V, 50 R, 31 M). Almost all the kids taking the test are really smart, so you should start studying now. I wish I would've.</p>
<p>I started studint last weekend. The gifted track, is like specific classes you take that are like honors in middle school. For 100th percantile I scored 99.8 percentile so I rounded. I wonder if it is possible to be in the 100th percentile?</p>
<p>So for my stats what do you guys think? I need financial aid. BTW I will really work on boasting them next year!</p>
<p>haha sorry I thought you meant gifted track like the sport lol</p>
<p>Abercrombielov 93:</p>
<p>Your stats are very impressive. As I said, the schools want diversity in their srudents and I think you offer that. I'd say that you can be accepted almost anywhere as long as your interviews go well. You wil need at least one safety schools, but these schools rarely give out full scholarships. Like I said, make some research about all those schools. My suggestion is that you could apply at 2-3 elite schools (seeing your stats, you will most probably get accepted on a full scholarship at one of them at the very least), and another 2-3 easier schools but that offer significant financial aid ;</p>
<p>Elite : Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville (personal favorite:), Choate, Taft, Deerfield, Milton, St-Pauls, Groton. </p>
<p>Average prep schools who offer a lot of financial aid : Loomis Chaffe, Berkshire, Tabor, Northfield Mount Hermon, Salisbury (if you are a guy??), Canterbury.</p>
<p>The first three (Loomis, Berkshire and Tabor) are very underrated. They are great schools and you can't go wrong with any of those three schools. </p>
<p>Each of the schools have their own school spirit. Go on each websites and look at the ones whom in which you are very interested. Ask questions about each schools on this forum. </p>
<p>If I can give my opinion, I'd apply at Choate and/or Hotchkiss and/or Lawrenceville and/or Loomis and/or Berkshire and/or Tabor. They all have great academics and offer good financial assistance. The student body also looks very friendly at each of those schools.</p>
<p>sorry, couple of mistakes, had to write fast. hope this helps</p>
<p>"My suggestion is that you could apply at 2-3 elite schools (seeing your stats, you will most probably get accepted on a full scholarship at one of them at the very least)"</p>
<p>that's a WAY overestimation... students with these kind of stats at the elite schools are a dozen a dime... did yall not learn from what happened to chaostheory?</p>
<p>wow thanks! btw prepstudent1 has more detailed stats! I will work on my list and then post!!!</p>
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<p>and Olivia...</p>
<p>I'm sorry, prepstudent1, but I saw a lot of misinformation in your post.</p>
<p>It's really tough to get financial aid if you're a middle class white kid from the 'burbs who doesn't have anything new or diverse to offer.</p>
<p>Esp. if the school has a limitied endowment. Tabor and Blair, I know from experience (on this board), offer prettyy much no FA for, again, white kids from the 'burbs. Theres a girl on this board who is STILL on the waiting list for FA at Blair and Tabor, and she had stats similar, if not more impressive, than abercrombie's.</p>
<p>SSAT's scores are nothing like your regular standardized tests. They correlate to SAT scores, but not state-mandated ones. Nothing like 'em. Like, Jonathon said, kids who get in the 99th percentile their entire lives score below the 50's. For someone who is asking for financial aid (and is not a URM or recruited athlete), your best bet is to get aboev 95++. And even then, you could easily get rejected.</p>
<p>No, you can't get in the 100th percentile, theres no such thing... Have you done pre-algebra yet? Most applicants are in Algebra 1 in 8th grade, but many are in geometry or Algebra II, and some are in Precalculus or Calculus at this time also (though being in Calculus in 8th grade isn't common, it;s def. not unheard of).</p>
<p>Is your GPA a 4.0 or a 3.75? You can't weight your GPA (as long as you're not taking college-level courses). If it's a 3.75, I think you need to bring it up. Most kids on here have 4.0's (many of us were rejected).. (same holds true for accepted students; the average GPA for acepted Andover students is an A).</p>
<p>EC's. Many of these kids have portfolios, are captains of teams, have 30 blue ribbons in riding, starred in TV shows (only a few), etc. etc. etc. Many of them are rejected.</p>
<p>Again, I direct you to the archives. Many kids learned the hard way (by being rejected to all schools they applied to) that they are in fact, not as special as their parents told them they were. Seriously. That's my best advice.</p>
<p>My gpa is currently a 4.0 but last year is was around a 3.75. I do not live in the suburb, I live in a city, but basically the same thing. I know I am quite average compared to many applications, so I am applying to MANY schools. I am also already studing two or three hours a week for November. I will study more starting in July. I know I will have a difficult time, but I am up to that challenge:)</p>
<p>Does anyone find it curious that abercrombielove93 and prepstudent1 registered on the same day, and both type the same way and with the same frquency of typos, and they both seem to be very misinformed on equal levels? And also that prepstudent1 and abercrombielov93 both want full rides? And that prepstudent1 was the only poster to tell abercrombielov93 that she has impressive stats?</p>
<p>Haha maybe a coincidence, but I don't want a full ride, I already have my full ride at Lawrenceville.</p>
<p>Understand that the advice you're getting here is ill-informed. When you ask questions like where you should apply and what your chances are on a message board, you have to treat all attempts to answer your question seriously with the same credibility and veracity you would ascribe to a tarot card reading from Miss Cleo. You are free to act on it or ignore it at your peril. <-- I would like to put this as a warning label on all "chances" threads. The replies you receive should be regarded as being for "entertainment purposes only."</p>
<p>Consider the words of John Derbyshire, a columnist for The National Review and instead of "horoscopes" and "astrology" imagine he's talking about "chances threads" and instead of "NR," substitute "CC":</p>
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It hardly needs saying, I hope, to a readership as intelligent as NR’s that astrology is twaddle. An astrologer can tell you nothing useful, though one with a good bedside manner can, of course, cheer you up a bit. The perfect emptiness of astrology has been demonstrated countless times. The Dutch investigator Rob Nanninga, for example, took seven subjects, extracted from them all the information necessary for an astrologer to make up a full horoscope, and gave that information to 50 astrologers. He then administered to the same seven subjects a set of questions, supplied by the astrologers themselves, about their personality and life experiences. The completed questionnaires were passed to the astrologers, who were then asked to match horoscope to questionnaire. Their failure to do so was total: results were exactly what one would expect from a random pairing of horoscopes with questionnaires. If you don’t like that experiment, any number of others have been done, with different methods but identical results — Skeptical Inquirer magazine can supply a full list. Astrology is pure flapdoodle.
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<p>The responses are amusing. If you base your actions and decisions on them, that, too, would be amusing (though not to you, it won't be).</p>
<p>And also... you're never on at the same time. One posts, the other logs off and posts..</p>
<p>You are currently in 8th grade, correct? I am going to repost some advice that I made earlier to someone else, but most of this applies to you as well.</p>
<p>= = = = =</p>
<p>You should do a bit more research a pick a few [4 to 5 more] schools that have less competitive admissions [admission rate is 35 - 50%] that you could picture yourself [a happy yourself] attending. Might I suggest Mercersburg Academy? Having just gone through the process, I would say that having a Plan B and a Plan C is essential to your success in the boarding school admissions process. Boarding school didn't work out for me, but luckily a very nice opportunity came up for me in the last moment [I was accepted to a local magnet high school that fits my interests quite nicely].</p>
<p>I would assume that these schools have proportionally [# of applicants -> # accepted] as many applicants for 10th grade as they do for the 9th grade. After one year of high school, many students realize that they would be much better off in a boarding school environment. Most boarding schools should realize this.
I do not know if you have taken the SAT before, but if you know about the SAT, then you will find that the SSAT is similar [albeit geared towards a younger audience]. The SSAT is not the kind of test that you find in school. For example, the SAT, although many students take it in 11th and 12th grade, does not test you on Calculus, but rather on logic and problem-solving abilities. The SSAT is similar. It will test your problem-solving and understanding [for lack of better word] skills. Perhaps you could call it a cumulative test?</p>
<p>Anyway, you can get a much better picture of what the test is like if you pick up a practice book. Personally, I would not recommend Barron's, but that is just my preference. Princeton Review seems to have worked very well for people on this board.</p>
<p>Generally, my impression of the test was that the mathematics and critical reading sections do not require much preparation. However, the vocabulary and analogies section of the test does require preparation and a bit of memorization as well. Some books are specifically geared towards the vocabulary sections of standardized tests, ex. Word Smart by Princeton Review. You should prepare for the SSAT, but, do not make it the focus of your application. It is by no means the most important part of you application.</p>
<p>My final advice would be to make sure that over the next year you develop an interesting range of extracurriculars. Participate in the activities that you love; follow your interests. I am sure that over the summer, you will do something interesting [I will not command you to do a certain thing, for at this point 1) I am beginning to feel like a dictator :D, and 2) I do not know what you are interested in]. A good high school will open up a lot of opportunities for you. But remember: the best opportunity is the one you create. </p>
<p>I believe that is all I have to say.</p>
<p>Anyway, I fear that I am getting quite long-winded and redundant, thus I shall end this post with two succinct words:</p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
<p>~ CT.</p>
<p>= = = = =</p>
<p>Excuse my laziness. :D I'd be glad to answer any specific questions you have.</p>
<p>@ blairt: You missed the profile info for jock8798.</p>