<p>I also pursue a variety of extracurricular activities such as Chinese, Spanish, piano, dance, etc. I have state/district accomplishments in clarinet and Mathcounts. I've had all A's in school since kindergarten. Also, I received 99th percentile on the ACT in 6th grade and a score of 1840 on my SAT in 7th grade.</p>
<p>I've submitted my essays, as well as my recommendations. However, my interview is tomorrow and I'm quite worried about it. If I do well on the interview, do I have a pretty good chance? What happens if I do poorly?</p>
<p>Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>nice~ thats pretty good
im applying to exeter and some other schools too~ i got a letter of invite from exeter over the summer
just relax in the interview talk freely its not like all the admissions counselors r all going to be staring u down
wat grade r u applying for??
some stuff abt me:
im a ninth grader rite now im korean and i live on guam and im a us citizen
i go to the best school here and get straight a’s
i finished teaching myself precalculus in the beginning of this school year
i’ve been in mathcounts for my entire middle school years and made it to the nationals in 8th grade
i’ve also participated in nationals acb in 7th grade
i had a lot of leadership positions in middle school, captain of the acb team, vice president of a music honor society, etc. and i was also in national junior honor society
i can play piano, violin, viola, and handbells all pretty well
i luv to run and i was in the varsity xc team this school year and im thinking of joining track
i got into the 97th percentile in the ssat(i have to say im kinda ashamed of my score since i can do better on sats…i got 2350 twice during the summer)
i do community service at the animal shelter, beach cleanups, guam symphony, etc.</p>
<p>I’m in 8th grade right now, so I’m applying for 9th. I’m also applying for some other schools as well. @petz96: Your accomplishments are better though.</p>
<p>I just had my interview and there were the normal questions along with some very random ones asked. I think I did okay, except for probably this one question. I hope it went well with my interviewer. I couldn’t get an on-campus interview so it was a local alumni interview. I asked a lot of questions about the school, however.</p>
<p>@yongatilla well that depends on the player
i was the leader of the group (tiny island=tiny school. we’re supposed to have at least 15 ppl in the group to be able to perform but we only had 7 and 4 of them were beginners so i had to take a lot of bells at once.)
to me my parts were easy but once when i stayed home from school since i was sick they tried to split up my parts and they ended up having to cancel practice since it didn’t go too well so i guess its a bit harder than i thought
some ppl have a hard time with the timing and stuff
i think it might help me since choate and andover have handbells choirs @dianuh thanks! but i’m applying as a 10th grader… i wish i could apply as a 9th grader too but since i was 6th grade to just last year my parents didn’t let me apply because of financial reasons
good luck with the andover interview~</p>
<p>So I thought I would revive this thread after my results rolled around. As it turns out, I was rejected to Exeter. </p>
<p>Since it was my first interview, I can speak the truth when I say that I did very poorly. It was an off-campus interview, since I was not able to go to Exeter for an on-campus one. </p>
<p>I have learned a lot from the application process this year, and I think this year was a great opportunity to gain plenty of experience. Now that I have a better grasp of my strong and weak points, I will work hard to improve my weak spots and maintain my strong suits, and hopefully create much more better applications when I reapply for boarding schools next year!</p>
<p>Dianuh, Thanks for sharing this. I wish you’d repost on the main board–lots of people don’t read the chances board at all, but would benefit from your experience</p>
<p>Dianuh, I’m sorry to learn of your experience with the interview. It’s always hard to get feedback, but in the end it can be very useful. Maybe just a little more practice will help.</p>
<p>Interesting, at the same time though, as my son’s interviewer at Exeter summer before last told us parents that “it was a stand alone application,” meaning the interview counts for very little. Maybe try to get an interview on the main campus with an AO, next time. Sounds like too much weight or emphasis may have been placed on the interview.</p>
<p>Classicalmama, since this was an old thread of mine, I thought that it would be fit to first post my experiences here. I will be sure to post on the main board at a proper time and thread, and share my experiences with others as well.</p>
<p>Redbluegoldgreen, I think an on-campus interview would have been a much better decision, but at the time our family just had to settle for an off-campus one. I think the school relied a lot on the interviewer’s thoughts because they had no prior knowledge of my personality at all. I will definitely practice a lot and try to schedule an on-campus interview when next year rolls around.</p>
<p>RBGG: That’s interesting…I wouldn’t have expected Exeter to say that, mostly because it has been our strong hunch that our son’s good, but very intense, interview is what tipped the balance for him. Seems like an odd thing to say, don’t you think? Why even do an interview if it doesn’t matter?</p>
<p>Dianuh–I agree–I think it was a really helpful way to end your chance thread–I’d just like to see you post it somewhere else too. I agree–wait for the right thread to come up.</p>
<p>@classicalmama, yes a very odd thing to say. The woman may have been trying to get across that it wasn’t like the olden days, when say I had applied to Yale, then only a group of kids after submitting the app and scores, get invited to an interview, then offers of acceptance was made to that group.</p>
<p>Even for colleges, now I believe the table has turned and the interview is only considered a small part of the process. </p>
<p>All in all, she did communicate that the app was standalone and that they relied heavily on the paper (or electronic) app. We got the impression that the interview was mainly to see if you were a regular well rounded person who could converse, not that it could make or break you. </p>
<p>I’d be interested in others experience. Still the HADES schools where my son got accepted to, we found he had the longest and best interviews with AOs who appeared very interested in him.</p>
<p>Yes, I hope to be able to share my interview experience and learn of others’ experiences as well. I don’t think that I was able to connect or convey my thoughts on Exeter to my interviewer, but I will work to express myself clearly next time.</p>