Chance Me (Updated)

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Hi, I am currently in 8th grade (applying for 9th grade), attending a private international school in South Korea. I have decided to apply to 9 different schools: Andover, Deerfield, Exeter, Hill, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Loomis, Peddie, Suffield.

Grades:
*Our school does not have A, B, C type of grades, we have levels of 1~8, 1 being the lowest, 4 average, and 8 highest.
All my grades are in the 7 and 8 levels

Extra-Curricular’s:

  1. Service
  • Club founder, Editorial of our school’s newspaper (this includes community service aspects)
  • Service Council (basically the head of student service-learning)
  • Student council member (Grade Representative)
  1. Sports

  • Varsity swim team for 2 years, swimming since 3rd grade. (KAIAC 1st place award, School Record holder for 100m I.M)
    (I got to meet with the Hill school’s head varsity swim coach via Zoom. I think it went great, he was interested and we definitely got to talk about some of the athletic environments at the school.) (After emailing all of the coaches, they showed interest as well)

  • Participates in cross country and tennis as well (intermediate level)

  1. Academics
    Awards: Immerse Education 2020, Immerse Education 2021, IYNN 2019: Oxford Youth Writing Challenge, John Locke Institute

  2. SSAT (I’m taking one on the 11th of December) (I’m not expecting a high score)
    3 out of the 9 schools I’m applying to require them. If I get a 70-80% score, should I still apply?

  3. Interviews
    I have interviewed Suffield, Loomis, Hill, Hotchkiss, (I’m doing Peddie today). I believe my conversation with Hotchkiss went well, we spent about an hour talking. The interviewer was extremely concerning and she was kind to answer all of my parent’s questions.

  4. Essay
    I’m in the process of writing them, I understand this is a critical part of my application. Although it’s at a rough stage, I think it’s going ok!

  5. Recommendations
    I sent the recommendation forms. I have a decent connection with all of my teachers. For the personal recommendation, I selected my swim coach (she knows me well as I swam with her since 3rd grade).

I think my application is not as strong as other applicants, therefore, I’m worried my low SSAT score (I didn’t take the test yet) would ruin everything.

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Current Hill student:
you should apply to Hill if you want to regardless of your SSAT score. I know people here that did amazing, people who did horrible(like below 40%), and then people in between. It’s good that the coach is interested in you. He’s a very nice guy and a good teacher :+1:. Swim is pretty big here for varsity. Community service is also SUPER important at Hill. Overall, it seems like you would thrive here. You come off as very nice and intelligent, which are things that are appreciated at Hill.

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