<p>Do not be disappointed. Many students start boarding school in tenth grade. If you prepare at Greenhills, a place like St. Paul's would be amazing the following year. You would be in no way disadvantaged unless you do not take full advantage of the opportunities offered at Greenhills. I highly doubt this would occur in your case, Jonathan. :)</p>
<p>are ssat scores realli important?
like usually each school takes at least one kid from my school~
and me and four other people are applying to andover, and
me and this boy have 99% [total percential] but hes has worse grades, and i have better grades...</p>
<p>btw~ does race play an factor in admissions? espeically for those applying to f.a.?</p>
<p>Race does play a factor; chlidren who are unrepresented minorities (not Asian) have significantly higher chances at admission. The SSAT is very important at some schools, less so at others, but a significant factor at all nonetheless. If you and that boy were equal in everything else, they might take you because you have higher grades, or they might take one of the other two.</p>
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Do not be disappointed. Many students start boarding school in tenth grade. If you prepare at Greenhills, a place like St. Paul's would be amazing the following year. You would be in no way disadvantaged unless you do not take full advantage of the opportunities offered at Greenhills. I highly doubt this would occur in your case, Jonathan.
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<p>Yeah, definitely. They hve so many opportunities that are not available at my school. My local high school only has two clubs and it's double the size. I think I will take Latin and Greenhills so prehaps I could qualify for the Classical Honors Scholarship.</p>
<p>I remember how helpful paleozoic was about me deciding whether or not to apply to boarding school for this year. I think I will take his advice and prepare myself for entry into the fourth form.</p>
<p>are you going to learn latin just to be eligible for a scholarship? it's a very schlarly language and you can't practice by speaking or listening, really. it's a huge commitment. what level are you in french? any documentation? does school offer a language?</p>
<p>oh gosh darn it~
im asian, and the other guy is african-american [black]
<em>sigh</em> hes probabli gonna get choosen~ because i think we both need the same amount of fa</p>
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are you going to learn latin just to be eligible for a scholarship? it's a very schlarly language and you can't practice by speaking or listening, really. it's a huge commitment. what level are you in french? any documentation? does school offer a language?
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<p>No, that would be stupid. I want to take Latin because I like it. I might not even end up applying to St. Paul's next year if I really love it at the private day school, if I get in. </p>
<p>I haven't ever taken French classes formally, but my dad lives in a bilingual city (Ottawa), so I hear French every day I'm here, which is about 3 months per year, collectively. I can converse in French pretty well. My dad speaks five languages fluently (English, Greek, French, Spanish, Protuguese) and my grandmother speaks three, (English, French, Greek)
and my grandfather spoke four, (English, Greek, French, Spanish) so my family's pretty gifted with languages. </p>
<p>No, I don't have any documentation. My school doesnt offer a foreign language.</p>
<p>Jonathan: don't apply to SPS this year if you are simply trying the waters. You would have a much stronger application next year if you mastered latin on your own and some french ( For latin look at the brilliant self teaching programme--Lingua latina part 1. You can get it from Focus publishing on the internet for about $35). As for the SSAT the scores only confirmed what you already know--you need to learn how to focus, to time yourself on practice tests and to go back and correct what you did wrong. Anyway, if you do the latin all the questions about your ability to focus will go away, and if you can tell them why you want to go for the right reasons your odds of getting in might be quite good. Schoold do select kids who want to go for the right reasons. To my mind you fit a smaller school better than a larger one. Look at Middlesex and Groton as well. If you're good enough to get into SPS you are good enough to get into those schools as well.</p>
<p>Merry Christmas and good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, paleozoic. I really mean it.</p>
<p>I hope next year I will be a better fit for these schools. I'll go to Chapters tomorrow and look for that book. I have some Christmas money to spend. </p>
<p>I'll definitely consider Groton and Middlesex next year. They seem like great schools.</p>
<p>dont sweat the interviews, they dont want a "planned" you, they just want you... just be yourself and if you are really motivated to go to these schools, it will show. and yeh... if you want to consider andover and exeter, you need above 90 on SSAT, i am comfortable with 95%</p>
<p>"you need above 90 on SSAT"
^^
thats just not true..</p>
<p>eh, it helps alot.... Exeter accepts somewhere between 16 and 22% of applicants and sed that the average was 91% on SSAT's... now if the rest of your application is good, then 90% should be fine, but if you arent exactly an abasadors son, then you mite odcnsider mid 90's.... i got 95%, and my interviewer sed thats good enough.</p>
<p>consider****</p>
<p>Guys this thread is three years old</p>
<p>haha, i didnt even see that, it was on my main login screen, so i just said something lmao</p>
<p>They never said their average was 91. .... for someone with 95 ssats you type like a two year old... I made the same score as you, so you don't really have any excuse for misspelling every other word >.<</p>
<p>Wow, maybe you're missing the social requirement to get into these school then. See in "normal" world, people write online in a thing called "short-hand", because there is a thing called "time" that most people don't like to waste. I'm astonished though, please point out my spelling errors in my previous message. I typed commas instead of periods, but I do not see any words spelled wrong, let alone every other word. You see, i do this thing called "socializing" where you actually talk to these things called "friends" when I am online. Maybe you will get some at school. If you get into one.</p>
<p>Here are the top 5 school and there data.</p>
<p>1) Phillips Exeter, SAT average= 2,085 SSAT=91%(average)Acceptance=21% Pop.=1,045
2) Groton SAT average= 2,080 SSAT=90% Acceptance=24% Population=353
3)Phillips Andover SAT=2,008 SSAT=93% Acceptance=20% Population=1,096
4)Hotchkiss SAT= 2,013 SSAT=92% Acceptance=20% Population=574
5)Deerfield SAT=2,000 SSAT=89% Acceptance=18% Population=605</p>
<p>But we30, that list is based solely on statistics, like the schools average SAT scores. And isn't that why many of us are applying to private/boarding schools? To get away from the multiple-choice tests and textbooks and be able to learn in a more interesting way? That's not a fair list, because that doesn't mean those are the "top" schools with the best teaching methods, just the ones that technically score the highest..</p>
<p>i think exeter has it all, and its not just those things, its based on</p>
<p>SAT average, Endownment, number of AP classes, sports clubs, extracurricular acitivites, boarding ratio, student to teacher ratio, percentage of advanced degree holders as teachers, studetns per class, and its history. so it should give you a good idea..</p>
<p>i like the harkness program and the Exeter campus is just gorgeous. the science building is incredible and i like the cold weather and the feel of the colonial town around it thats kinda ritsy. and i love boston, and its pretty close.</p>