Chances of getting into PEA, PA, SPS, The Hill, Lawrenceville?

<p>I am a 14 year old Hispanic female entering the ninth grade in Florida. I applied last year to the schools to get a feel of what I was up against and the process. I got on the Waitlsit for Exeter and St. Paul's. My cousin graduated from SPS. I did well on my SSATs, getting 94% percentile as my average. I got straight A's except for my first B in robotics. I got orchestra's music choice as an award. I am a swimmer, a Girl Scout, a cellist, and a math league member. I made the all state orchestra for the seventh and eighth grade. I did excellent on my interviews last time. There was a switch up with two of my applications, PEA and SPS, so they reviewed my application later. I also applied for financial aid. I am entering the ninth grade and plan on doing Mu Alpha Theta, swimming, orchestra, and auditioning for my town's youth symphony (who were invited to play in Carnegie hall). I am reapplying, what are the possible chances of me getting in this year?</p>

<p>You’re applying to Andover AND Exeter, and Lawrenceville AND Hill? Whew, that is quite the conflict.</p>

<p>Well, this year I’m still applying to PEA and SPS, but I’m going to apply to lower tier schools as well like Blair and NMH. But yes, I did do that last year.</p>

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Blair and NMH - lower tier?? SMH. </p>

<p>@AMS0203 This post is quite confusing. How did you apply last year to those schools? They are high schools and you’re saying you applied to six boarding schools?</p>

<p>I applied in the eighth grade, and now I am reapplying to the schools (some new ones) as a tenth grader.</p>

<p>In comparison to schools like Exeter, Groton, and if you look at the stats, they are considered lower tier than Exeter, Andover, etc. Blair and NMH are phenomenal schools, but in all honesty, is it easier to get into Exeter than NMH?</p>

<p>conflict applying can be risky. i’m at hill and got waitlisted by both blair and peddie</p>

Well, thank you to everyone who responded. I applied to Exeter, St. Paul’s, Hill, Berkshire, and NMH. I got accepted into Exeter, St. Paul’s, and NMH, WL for Berkshire, and rejected from Hill.

AMS0203 - Any insight into the rejection at Hill? Seems like you would be a good candidate to be accepted at this school. Did you reveal your intentions to go to a different school and thus there was some yield management?

Hill’s current 3rd form (Freshmen) class is their largest class in school history. My guess is that there
were not many open spots available for next year’s 4th form class.

III form is sophomore.

Not at Hill… 3rd is Freshmen, 4th is Sophomore

My bad, I thought the form system was universal…

@heartburner didn’t, I reached out to many people who were in departments of my interests, I kept in touch with my admissions officer… I don’t know what I did wrong. Everything happens for a reason I suppose!

I always thought the first form started in 7th grade, so that would make 9th grade third form. Is that not usually the case?