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<p>Hi!</p>

<p>First of all, i<code>m really sorry for my English, i know it</code>s quite a poor, and in advance i`m begging your pardon for my future mistakes (hope Mozilla's spell checking will help me a little bit :-)).</p>

<p>My daughter (she<code>s 15 now) is planning to apply to SPS, Phillips Andover, Deerfield or Milton.
We are from a small country, Azerbaijan Republic (one of the former USSR), she studies now in International school, in the 9th grade. It</code>s her first year in this school, previously she had also studied in English schools for 2 years, but the academic studies there were more British-Russian than purely American curriculum, that was the main reason why i moved her to the Baku International School this year. She had finished 2 terms at the moment, has total 3,96 GPA score. She has some awards for cross-country and football (school team), also paticipated in Model United Nations for 2 years, and this spring she'll also planning to go to Istambul (with her school) to take part in another assembly of MUN.</p>

<p>So now we<code>re planning to finish 10-th grade in International School and try to enter boarding school in US in autumn 2011 for 11. How do you think, does we have chances? I know about SSAT exam, we don</code>t have it in our country, so have to go to Moscow, Istambul or Dubai in autumn 2010 (planning to prepare for the exam during summer holidays). We don<code>t want to ask for financial aid, course i</code>m afraid it could minimize our chances and also there are a lot of problems with taxes documents in our country.<br>
I<code>m worring about interview course we don</code>t have opportunity to visit so many schools in US, though i know they could interview through Skype, but of course to speak personally much better and advantegeous.</p>

<p>What do you think about our chances? What could and should we do to enhance them?</p>

<p>Thanx a lot!</p>

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<p>I don’t really know since I’m not applying for that grade level and I’m not applying as an international student, but I say she has a good chance. How is her English?</p>

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<p>Thanx a lot!
It<code>s good, in previous school was A+, in the current A (because they don</code>t have honor classes, the school is very small, only 180 student).</p>

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<p>Well, her English should be really good. There’s ESL (English as a second Language). Try apply her there before going to the School. It will help her better</p>

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<p>Thanx! I know that some of the schools from our list require TOEFL exam also in addition to SSAT exam, so we are planning to prepare to it during summer holidays.
During 3 years she studies in English schools, English there is the first language, all the subjects are teaching in English, except of foreign language lessons like Russian and French.</p>