<p>Hi I am an 8th grade boy who is applying to be an 9th grader at Deerfield.
I usually have all A's except for a C :( last year in math. However I am in advanced math I take classes to years above my normal grade level. </p>
<p>My extra curriculares:
I play tennis competitively and I am regionally ranked. (the deerfield coach called me, so I dont know if the call everyone or what)
I play trumpet
I started the debate team at my school
I am involved in a lot of charities</p>
<p>The only offset is that I got 74% OVERALL SSAT</p>
<p>You definitely have a shot. It partly depends on where you come from (prep school, preppy old money, etc). I think its impressive that you started a debate team as an 8th grader and don’t worry about one C. Just tell them you’re a humanities person in your interview or something.</p>
<p>Oh, and no they don’t call everyone. What do you mean by regionally ranked? What level USTA tourneys? I think that’s big if they called you.
I got in a couple years ago. I had an ssat around that too so don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>You probably have a shot at being recruited as an athlete but as long as you apply, even regular, you have a chance. No I chose not to go to BS because I don’t think it’s worth it to pay $50,000 for high school but I go to a day school and I’m getting as good an education as Deerfield could have given. Going to a school like Deerfield isn’t everything and you can be happy/get a good or better education from many, less-selective schools.</p>
<p>yeah I was confused about that too…I honestly don’t thinks it “is as good as Deerfield Academy”. TBH there is very few schools as good as DA and I don’t see any students transferring out of those schools.</p>
<p>The coach called you as he was interested. I am sure. Not every athletes receives such a call. </p>
<p>Your ssat scores seem well below avg of those who got in Deerfield. So, as someone above mentioned you have a high chance as a recruit but not very convincing as a regular applicant. But then again it is solely based on numbers and they look at the overal quality of applicants that numbers do not always indicate. </p>
<p>So be positive and stay cool. Nothing you can do now. I wish you all the best!</p>
<p>Id just like to note that a coach at Deerfield told me their benchmark is an 85, very few times do they pick applicants with scores below. Kids usually picked below are d1 bound athletes, or people who donate mills to the school.</p>
<p>@MBV if your out to get me just stop. I have facts, you have opinions. If you are not going to be helpful leave. I have direct emails from multiple coaches at Deerfield that state that. You can stop being annoying, and stop trying to contradict every one of my posts.</p>
<p>@baseball: What a terrible comeback. My statement is logic, not opinion. If you’re applying to BS, you should at least be able to do the math (and have good grammar, but maybe you can’t, since you once said "for one 50th percentile there must be many 99ths for an average of 83th, which made me lmao). With an average of 88, it is possible, but it simply doesn’t make sense for admitted students to be only in the range of 85-91; a competitive school like Deerfield is likely to admit many 95+. And I doubt THAT many kids have donated mills or are D1 bound athletes that skew the average to the left.</p>
<p>Even a school like Exeter has admitted students with ~83th percentile that are neither recruited athletes nor prodigies nor legacies, and it boasts a higher average SSAT than Deerfield. Admission is arbitrary. Stop saying benchmark this benchmark that when neither you nor the coaches have a clue what’s on the minds of the inscrutable AOs.</p>
<p>(This is not to dispute anything anyone has said, just a helpful comment! )
But anyway, the SSAT/ISEE score is the absolute last thing AOs look at. This is not something I’m assuming on my own; I called s few AOs and asked all of my interviewers, they all gave me the same answer.
So don’t worry about a low standardized test score if everything else is more or less solid! :)</p>
<p>Don’t let people ge you down. 1) An SSAT score in the 70+ percentile is NOT a bad score. It means that you scored well above the average of SSAT test-takers (who are themselves generally a pool of above average students). 2) One C is not a deal-breaker, the larger picture is what counts. 3) Your “hook”, meaning tennis, sounds very promising, and the fact that the coach reached out to you is a positive indication. Please stay positive, I say you have as good a shot as any of the applicants, if not better, if the tennis hook is any indication. Good luck.</p>
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