<p>Hi everyone this is my first post on CC and it looks like a great website with many good people. This is kind of long but please chance me... Thank You</p>
<p>I am an 8th grade male applying to Milton Academy, Noble and Greenough, and Belmont Hill for 9th grade.</p>
<p>I've taken my SSAT twice.
The first one, I got
VERBAL: 90 percentile
MATH: 54 Percentile
READING: 84 percentile
OVERALL: 80 percentile</p>
<p>the reason i got so low in math was because I skipped 11 questions in total and really should have guessed. I re-took the SSAT and then received slightly better scores.</p>
<p>VERBAL: 85
MATH: 86
READING: 77
OVERALL: 86</p>
<p>In this one, after coming out of the test, i thought i did terrible. but i got mediocre scores on math and verbal then not-so-good on reading. this test was harder then the first.</p>
<p>So for interviews...</p>
<p>Milton- I thought went OK. this was my first interview so i was a little nervous. We started speaking and i slowly loosened up a bit. we spoke a lot about sports and extra-cirriculars. i also told him about how over the summer i did community service through my school to raise awareness for illiteracy. I also told him about how i recently got a tutoring job through my math teacher. i was selected to tutor a 5th grader at our school who needed help with math. i told him that i accepted the job and donated half of the earnings i raised to UNICEF. he seemed pretty impressed with that. then we kind of went off on a tangent and talked about sports i was interested in. about 10 minutes of the interview was spent on sports and what Milton has to offer. It was a really loose interview but coming out of it, i thought that i should have spoken about my academic interests at milton more than i did. </p>
<p>Nobles- this was my 2nd interview. I was slightly more prepared for this one because of my first interview at milton. this one went really well and i did everything i did in the first but with a lot more confidence. Also, i added a lot more about my academic interests and how i participate in a high school level geometry class in addition to my advanced algebra 1 class. I also spoke about my debate+public speaking class. also, i threw in a lot of "i think Nobles would be a great fit for me".. At the end, my interviewer said that she got a really good idea of my personality. Later, she told my dad, when interviewing him, that i sounded like a good kid who makes friends easily.</p>
<p>Belmont- Haven't Had my interview yet.</p>
<p>so now for my EC's</p>
<p>I was elected Treasurer of my Public Speaking Class that is extracurricular because it is a club outside of school</p>
<p>participate in EC math class every saturday which teaches me advanced subjects.</p>
<p>soccer- 9 years
skiing-8 years
snowboarding- 2 years
tennis- 6 years
basketball-3 years
flag football- 4 years</p>
<p>i can fully understand hindi but only get along speaking it. (hindi is an indian language)</p>
<p>Both my parents are from india but i was born and raised in America.</p>
<p>English is my first language.</p>
<p>I can speak pretty good french. i participated and placed 10th in a national competition through my school in french.</p>
<p>also, i take latin through my school and placed 5th in a latin competition.</p>
<p>Grades:
overall straight A/A- with the occasional B+</p>
<p>Last year, for english, I got for the first term a C+ then the next term i got a B then the final term i got an A. </p>
<p>RECS:</p>
<p>I think i received solid recommendations from my math teacher. she was the one that nominated me to be the tutor for the 5th grader. She also seemed impressed that i am donating half of my earnings to UNICEF. </p>
<p>I also think i got great recommendations from my science teacher. She has only had me for one year but i think she likes me as a student. before taking a test i missed because of an interview, she asked me what my first choice school was.. to which i replied NOBLES. she said, i think you have a good shot there but i feel like you will do really well anywhere you go. this hints she may have written a good rec for nobles but ya never know.</p>
<p>English: This rec is pretty good i guess nothing really extra to add here.</p>
<p>no rec from history..</p>
<p>sorry this is so long but i am kinda nervous about if i will get into any of these top schools. i am also applying to 3 other non-top schools that are local. i may go there if i dont get accepted to these 3.</p>
<p>Please Chance me. Thank You.</p>