Chance me!!!!!urgent!!!!!!

Prep School Admissions Prep School Chances
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<p>I'm applying for 9th to Deerfield, Exeter, Taft, Choate, and Andover. I'm taking the SSAT's 1/10. I took the practice test and got around 95. I live in Rhode Island if the location helps.</p>

<p>Academics:
Honors Algebra II
A+ in all subjects
B+ in Science(2 quarter grade A first quarter)
GPA: 3.96</p>

<p>Awards:
Academic Awards (3)
Won State Poetry Award
Student of the month
Award won for best effort in grade</p>

<p>Sports:
State Titles won in Basketball
Track in the spring
Rec. Volleyball (won school tournament)
Sail in the Summer
Golf in the spring (won tournaments and I'm an extremely good golfer)</p>

<p>Chance me for these schools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>that's really good!!! your essays, recs, interviews, and personality have to be great... but you sound like a good applicant! good luck~</p>

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<p>is it me, or is my school the only school without cheesy awards such as "best effort" or "best poem of the month" some of them seem like jokes. either way, I feel so award deprived.</p>

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<p>I have to agree with starz as far as the "some of them seem like jokes" part. I got artist of the month last year (..dont ask me how, because I don't know) but I didn't even put that on my application hahah I felt like they'd just overlook it.</p>

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<p>well no, a lot of people have been posting awards like that. I've seen like "best poem in the grade", "best student of the month" ect....</p>

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<p>Thank you guys for all of the comments!!! I hope I get in. My school is a really pretty bad school. (as you can see the tackiness of the awards) But I don't really have any other awards. My 1st choice is Deerfield</p>

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is it me, or is my school the only school without cheesy awards such as "best effort" or "best poem of the month" some of them seem like jokes. either way, I feel so award deprived.

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<p>Not you at all!
We have awards for:
3.0 GPA (not an award exactly, or not to me)
3.5 GPA (")
4.0 GPA (That's something that's pretty descent though it is easy because I take all honors)
Top 10% in class (Academic Mention)
Top 5% in class (Academic Excellence)
Top 2% in class (Academic High Honors) </p>

<p>No offense to you, I defiantly wish I had more than some of the awards listed there, they are not exactly cheesy but understand that Michael Gary won't weight "Poem of the Month etc.) as he would "Top in class" etc.</p>

<p>I am an intrinsic learner and I don't care that I don't have the awards. Michael Gary will not look at the awards as much as he will look for your burning passion to learn, fire in the belly as my dad would say. </p>

<p>Point being, tell them if you won intel don't tell them if you won smile contest.</p>

<p>Sorry I went over the small portion of your app. into so much depth (20-80 rule :P) other things now. </p>

<p>I do not know about how deep you are in your sports but you definitely seem to have the width in terms of the athletic realm. I really do not see any other Extra Curr. and that is a HUGE BIG must. </p>

<p>SSAT scores as compared to a practice test (This is the average change that I calculated from a pool of 267 different scores from different people) is "3%" harder meaning if you scored a 95% on the practice test if you follow the statistic you will get a 92%</p>

<p>I am used to getting 99% on all school crap but remember SSAT is a whole different ball game, you go from competing with school average Joe's to some of the top people internationally. 92% means you whack over 9/10 of the top people in the world! That is something to be proud of.</p>

<p>Exeter has an acceptance rate of 20%, assuming it was all based on SSAT anyone over the 80% threshold would make it, it is much harder as these schools have ~90% as their average. </p>

<p>Basically the point is you definitely seem to be in the running, check everything and GL!</p>

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<p>My EC's that I forgot to include:
School Community Service(1yr)
Science Olympiad(2yrs)
Math Counts (2yrs)
cello (8 yrs.)
drums (4yrs)
Art won contest hosted by the state
Read to kids in elementary school once a week
Class President: 1yr</p>

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<p>depends on your ssat</p>

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<p>omg, u sound JUST like me hahaha. thats kinda funny. and scary at the same time...i am applying to the same schools plus milton. i am really excited to find the score for SSAT January 28 is way too far away lol. </p>

<p>you seem strong in math and science, but there isn't any EC that rlly stands out to me. how do you think your interviews went? essays/recs? FA needed?</p>

<p>good luck to you! =]</p>

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<p>Gosh, helpmeoutman, the SSAT isn't everything! Get it through your head - it's just one part of an admissions process composed of many other parts. As others have said, all of these schools could fill their incoming classes with 99th percentile SSAT students, but that would just be ridiculous because it would totally disregard the hundreds of other qualities of the other applicants.</p>

<p>The SSAT means little more than that you know how to fill in bubbles on a sheet.</p>

<p>As for you Latinlad, you're most likely at least in the running. One thing though that isn't a bad thing but a funny thing: state titles won in basketball. RI is a tiny, tiny state :-) My mom is from Providence and that's where we stayed when we flew into the states to visit and interview at my schools.</p>

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<p>oh yeah, haha.</p>