<p>I'm bumping this board. Can we put a sticky on in - so that future applicants can see it?</p>
<p>Helpful thread. Can anyone add to it? Thanks :)</p>
<p>wow, this thread is making me so nervous. I mean, if this is what i have to compete with......<em>bangs head againstwall</em> I'm totally doomed.</p>
<p>I know, I am so scared. Thanks for helping us, though, last year's applicants. lol. Could you please chance me? I would be so grateful. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/436813-chances-i-know-you-hate-them-but-please-help.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/436813-chances-i-know-you-hate-them-but-please-help.html</a> . Thanks.</p>
<p>Wow! Great thread from last year. I wish more kids had posted their results. Especially kids that applied to lesser known schools.</p>
<p>We should continue this!</p>
<p>All As, 86% SSAT, good ECs</p>
<p>WL: Deerfield, Taft, Hotchkiss, Choate, Lawrenceville. Accepted: MPS</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Age: 13
Current Grade: 9
Applying for Grade: 9
Location: Somewhere in the Caribbean
Ethnicity: Black
Grades: Straight A-student
SSAT: 94%
Interviews: ranged from 30-50 minutes
Choate: Everyone was very friendly, gave kind compliments about interview.
Milton: Interviewer told my parents I had done very well
Loomis: Phone interview, got a friendly letter from my interviewer afterwards and we kept up a correspondence</p>
<p>EC's:
Volleyball: grade 9
Voice: Grades 4-9
Media: Grades 7-9
Writing: Grades 6-9 (had short story published)
Community Service: various activities</p>
<p>Accepted into all 3 schools: Choate, Milton and Loomis :)</p>
<p>Good luck future applicants!</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Age: 13
Current Grade: 8
Applying for Grade: 9
Location: East coast
Ethnicity: White
Grades: Straight A-student
SSAT: 97%
Interviews: all very good</p>
<p>EC's:
Violin
Golf
Newspaper
Math team
Science team
Other academic teams
Community service
Many awards</p>
<p>Accepted with F.A. - Peddie and Pennington
Waitlisted - Lawrenceville</p>
<p>Good luck future applicants!</p>
<p>Applied to:
Andover
Taft
St. Andrew's (DE)
St. George's
Groton
St. Paul's
Applied for ninth grade</p>
<p>Classes:
Honors Algebra I
Honors English
Spanish II
US History (no other classes offered)
Pre Chemistry (no other classes offered)
*A/B in all classes.</p>
<p>Attend a private middle school </p>
<p>Extraccuriculars:
A lot of community service work
yearbook editor in chief
Excalibur Science Honor Society
Astronomy club (not exactly official but whatever)
Summer Institute for the Gifted
chosen for science trip for 8 people in the grade
Varsity Field hockey</p>
<p>SSAT:
Verbal: 94%
Reading: 65%
Math: 89%
Overall:89%</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Caucasian
Location: Southern Florida</p>
<p>Recommendations helped a lot. Interviews went really well.</p>
<p>Andover: Accepted
Taft: Accepted
St. Andrew's: Accepted
St. George's: Accepted
St. Paul's: Waitlisted
Groton: Rejected</p>
<p>Not sure where i'll be attending, but it will probably be St. Andrew's, Taft, or Andover.</p>
<p>My son is in public middle school 8th grade
Taking all gifted and talented classes including Algebra II --with very good but not perfect grades: A in English, Science, and Spanish--B+ in social studies and B in math (opposite of SSATs-see below)
Plays 3 school and club sports: soccer, bball, and lax
French horn in school band
Great recs especially from English and music teachers
Community service done in sports-related areas for underprivileged
SSATs: 80percentile math, 60V==N.B.
(this is 97th percentile in USA as estimated by college boards--applicant pool to BS is roughly top 5 percentile in USA)</p>
<p>Aced interview at Deerfield and essay geared to this school well-written and
thoughtful...
Coaches very receptive at Deerfield, Nmh, and Hill and had been contacted on several occassions after interviews (this appears to portend success)
Coaches and admissions staff lukewarm at Lawrenceville and Blair
Accepted at Deerfield, Hill, and NMH
Going to Deerfield</p>
<p>Nervedoctor, nice to see well-rounded kids getting into good schools. Question: what does "N.B." mean on your son's SSAT stats? You posted he got a 2000, what does that translate to % wise? I'm looking at prior posts and a 2000 can be anywhere from a 45% to 60%, depending on gender and grade.</p>
<p>N.B. = nota bene = note well (or please take note, or pay attention, or take notice...). Or maybe it means something different here.</p>
<p>N.B. "nota bene" is Latin for "note well"
I am not positive about the relative percentile variation of the score 2000--but this seems to be a cut-off for consideration at a few schools as does the 80 percentile in at least one subset of the test. This is all hearsay, therefore take it with a grain of salt. I am so impressed with the students who have written their stats. There are a multitude of bright young people heading to boarding schools and they should be proud of all of their accomplishments.</p>
<p>Wow thanks for the posts!! All of you guys are sooooo amazing!! :-)</p>
<p>applied for 9th grade(III former) to:</p>
<p>andover
exeter
choate
hotchkiss
deerfield
groton
st. mark's
groton
middlesex
taft</p>
<p>classes/grades
english 8 (all As)
us history (all As)
honor geometry (all As)
spanish (all A+s)
science (all As)</p>
<p>extra curriculars
-taekwondo daily(black belt)
-mock trial(weekly)
-editor in chief of the school newspaper(weekly)
-student council(weekly)
-piano(6 years)
-violin(4 years)
-church group(weekly)
-2nd place in new england math contest
-3 gold medals in Taekwondo campionships
- preidential awards wgen graduated from elementary and middle school
- 2nd place in new england orchestra contest</p>
<p>Reccomendations were very good
Interviews very good
ssats 97 perecntile</p>
<p>location: Massacusetts</p>
<p>ethinic origin: korean female</p>
<p>accepted:
middlesex
st. mark's
hotchkiss
taft</p>
<p>waitlisted:
andover
deerfiled
groton
choate</p>
<p>rejected:
exeter</p>
<p>attend st. mark's as a boarder</p>
<p>now taking:
Honor Agebra II
English
Spanish
Science
III form Seminar(required for all third former)
Studio Arts</p>
<p>just thought i should bump this thread... it's really awesome!!</p>
<p>Yes, please keep then coming!:)</p>
<p>Applied to:
Greenhills School</p>
<p>Grades:
3.83 UW GPA 9-10, with hardest possible coursework at grade level</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Completely fluent in four languages - English, Chinese, French, Spanish - with internationally recognized proficiency tests to support this claim, e.g. Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, DALF, DELE
Staff editor for school literary magazine (10)
Math Club member (9-10)
ABRSM Diploma in Music Performance: Piano (earned in 10th grade)</p>
<p>Facts:
Location: Singapore (moved to Michigan this summer)
Ethnicity: Chinese
Sex: Female
Test Scores:
210 - sophomore PSAT
2120 - sophomore SAT
760 - SAT II Math IIC</p>
<p>Recommendations:
Excellent. My aunt told me that the folks at the admissions department were amazed with what my teachers/counselor wrote.
Results:
Greenhills School - accepted!
Will Attend:
Greenhills School for junior and senior year.</p>