DD is in eighth grade and interested in Groton, Phillips Exeter, St. Marks, Governors, and Phillips Andover. We are new to this process and have been reading the boards. Any advice you can offer would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
SSAT
Composite 86
Verbal 90
Math 87
Reading 58
She is planning to retake in December to raise her Reading score. She was sick with a bad head cold the day she took her SSAT.
Grades: She has an A+ in every subject except accelerated math, in which she has an A. Her seventh grade grades in all subjects are also all A+ and A.
School Specifics and Extracurriculars:
Foreign Language - French (2 years)
Band - Clarinet (5 years)
Student Council (6, 7, 8)
Future Engineers Club (2 yrs, last year, her team won certificates at the state level; this year, she is captain of her team)
Math Counts (2 years, she chose this club because it challenges her)
Computer Building Club (7, not available in 8)
Filmmaking Club (7, intending to take again in the spring)
YALSA book review committee (8th grade by invitation; she reads and reviews ARC of books)
Magic the Gathering (8, new exploration-she loves the fantasy genre!)
Extracurriculars:
Taekwondo, testing for first degree Taekwondo black belt this December (2 years, she earned a gold medal at a sparring competition last year)
Taekwondo Leadership Team (1 year)
Riding (3 years, seasonally for pleasure)
Writing - state first place award winner Letters About Literature, state fifth place award winner, Patriot’s Pen
Home hobbies - writing short stories, reading and creating manga, learning Japanese
Volunteer work: local library, food pantry, letters and donations to veterans every year since third grade, organized with a friend a table at our local Earth Day festival and at the farmers market to educate about and collect donations for the WWF