<p>I'm thinking of applying there, since many people have been telling me to apply to more schools and as I read the book Prep and feel that it seems like a good school, I'd apply.</p>
<p>What is it like there? I'm really interested in knowing the average SSAT score. And I want to know if I have a good chance. I have about a 93 average (straight A and A- student) and a 97 SSAT (98 verbal, 96 Reading, 90 Math). Are they very strict acceptance-wise?</p>
<p>Please answer. Thank you.</p>
<p>good school.. not too strict acceptance wise but still very prestigious. i know kids who have famous parents who go there.. it's a very elite school and i like how it's 8-12, so even if you're a freshman, you're not the youngest.</p>
<p>i personally don't like that school, but I'm applying because my parents want me to. I called for an interview and at the end, the lady said "Do you know about Groton?" and I was like " um, what do you mean?" and she said " well, just to tell you for juniors, only about 1 or 2 applicants get in each year"</p>
<p>so I would say for freshman, it wouldnt be a large number. No larger than 20/25 maybe? Im not sure, but it's a small school, that's why. But I'd say, go for it!</p>
<p>There was a poster last year - getmeintogroton2 - he was accepted and is now a freshman. Search under High School life for Groton and you'll find him.</p>
<p>Thank you. :)
So only 20/25 accepted as freshmen? I know two people who currently go there, one boy who has a 99 SSAT and another girl has 92 percentile SSAT. They go to the same place I do over the summer and flirt together a lot. It's quite funny.</p>
<p>Thanks shelley! I'll check him out.</p>
<p>a 97 on the SSAT is in the top three percent.
What do you mean, an A plus? It's a standardized test.
Even in 'school', an A plus is anything above a ninety-five.</p>
<p>hmm, well from looking at the viewbooks/website, i actually didnt find groton that appealing. it didnt seem as diverse as the other schools- imean they offer latin, greek, german something like that, but they dont have chinese. >.< well, thats because idk chinese is a pretty global language haha</p>
<p>It's not diverse, but it seems to offer something. I like the dorms, from what I've seen, and I think that although Choate and Andover are more of a fit, Groton would be okay.</p>
<p>Anxious student, were you being sarcastic?</p>
<p>Is Groton really that snobby? Have any of you read Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld?</p>
<p>Groton used to be equated with Eton. Don't know if it still is.</p>
<p>"I was going to send my boy to Groton or Eton, but I didn't want him to be a snob so I'm sending him to Andovah." <---first edition of the Great Gatsby (Trimalchio).</p>
<p>Groton is a great school; I hear their math is particularly strong. It's extremely small and has a very...distinct ambiance so I think it is definitely not for everyone. Also, Prep should be read as the piece of fiction it is.</p>
<p>Really? But it was based off Groton.</p>
<p>yeah but it was written by a woman who absolutely hated her experience at Groton and hates boarding schools altogether</p>
<p>I know.
But it didn't leave ME with a bad impression.</p>
<p>Then I think you're rationalizing the many faults it pointed out at the school and the idea of boarding schools altogether. Honestly, it didn't have a single good thing to say about Groton other than one brief passage on interesting people, and any view so slanted is not useful in making an objective evaluation of a school. Hence, my advice to read it as a piece of fiction.</p>
<p>I think that Lee was unhappy at boarding school, but I can see myself in the same position where I would be happy. I liked the feeling of independence and living in a different environment. I think that Lee was one of the people who wouldn't like that, but I would.</p>
<p>Then I'm very surprised. I think the 'different environment' that was portrayed by Sittenfield was extremely biased and did not offer much room for appraisal. It really took the physical experience of being AT a boarding school to see the other side and appreciate its merits.</p>
<p>What did you like about the Curtis Sittenfield depiction of Groton's enviroment?</p>
<p>I didn't like her opinion of it, but I liked the feeling I got from the book about boarding school - I liked the possibility of having roommates and living in a place entirely different from your home and surviving there. I liked the traditions, like Assassin and the green jacket, and I liked the feeling of independence, like I said. I just liked the ideal of going off to boarding school.</p>