Hello everybody,
I am an 8th grader applying to start Exeter for 9th grade in the upcoming school year. I live in Paris, France, where I attend the American School of Paris (I don’t know if this will help). I’ll split everything into categories to make it easier to read.
Grades:
This year has great so far, this semester, I have gotten an A+ in Algebra 1, Science, Social Studies and English, and an A in French Intermediate 2. The only problem is that I’ve had many B’s in the years before, however, I hope that Exeter will see that I’ve changed.
Recommendations:
My math, english, and piano teacher (who is the person that wrote my extracurricular reccomendation) all love me in their classes, and I have a good relationship with all of them, so I think the reccomendations will be good. In addition, my grades probably helped out in this :).
Essays:
Both the essays I turned in were very good, I wrote one about how living in seven countries has made me who I am, and about my love for entrepreneurship.
Extracurriculars:
I’ve done many extracurriculars, however the most important ones are: Badminton for 7 years, tennis for 2 years, programming for 1 year, chess club for 2 years, piano for 4 years, M.U.N for about 2 years, and student council for 4 years, and this year I am president of Student Council in my Middle School.
Interview:
My interview went very well, I don’t want to be specific, but my interviewer clearly was impressed.
Test scores:
This is where it goes a bit downhill. On the SSAT’s, I got in the 87% (Verbal 94%, Quantitative 60%, Reading 94%), and on the ISEE’s, I got 96% in Verbal Reasoning, 99% in Reading Comprehension. 69% in Quantitative Reasoning, and 86% in Mathematics Achievement.
I think that this is the only place where I really slipped up, and I hope that the other parts of my application will fix this.
Conclusion:
I think that I am in the running, however, I’m not sure if my test scores are so bad that I will be out.
