<p>Hey Guys-
Okay so basically, I'm a freshmen at a public high school. I would love to go to a better school, but i don't think that I could get in. I have okay grades, but i actually hate them. Lowest grades I've gotten in awhile.</p>
<p>Honors Phyiscs- B
Colorguard (fine art and PE)- A+
Honors french- A
Latin- B+
Honors English- B+
Algerbra II- B </p>
<p>(I'm one of the few freshmen in algerbra 2)</p>
<p>I too the Sat
Math- 600
Writting- 570, 8 essay
Reading- 510</p>
<p>Not good... but Math is okay....</p>
<p>Basically i want to know what to do. I'm a good student. I want to have better teachers, harder classes. I wish I could go to a better school nect year, but where i live, ther eis only the one public school. This makes me think that boarding school would be a good option. However, it is a little late for that. Does anyone know what I should do? Or know of a good boarding school taht I could get into, and I could still apply to?</p>
<p>Take my words lightly, for I have not adequately researched: I believe most boarding schools have application deadlines on February 1st - today. Unfortunately, the application process can be very time consuming, not to mention the financial aid application (if applicable). Someone please verify. If I am correct, I will continue to post regarding various other options. You seem to be a very excellent student. As a fellow freshman, I wish you luck in reaching your goals. :)</p>
<p>Thank you very much. I am going to try to find what my best option is. I would be so thankful if you posted with more suggestions. Thank you again!</p>
<p>We have one magnet school, but honestley it is awful, worse then any other schools. I want a school where I can get a great education. I ama member of The academic decathlan team. A member of my schools chapter of JSA. I am in my third year of beign on the colorguard team. However, I realize not many schools ahve colorguard teams and i am not looking for that on a school.</p>
<p>Yes, you seem willing to learn and work hard. I'll try to help you find a school too.</p>
<p>Schools are always looking for rolling admissions. If you come from a background where prep school is not really discussed, they will probably look at your app because you didn't know the deadlines.</p>
<p>Try to get you a list of schools in the next week that you can email and ask about a substitute deadline.</p>
<p>Thank you, I live in California but I am open to anywhere in the USA. No one in my family has attended a Prep school before. My Mom hasn't finished college actually. My dad went to college, afetr taking a two year break. I am the first one in my family to take my education so seriously. It is soemthing my parents don't exactly understand. Shown by foridding me from doing my homework until I've cleaned the kitchen and helped out... however, I am intent on changing this. I also would not need financial aid. Thank you for all the help.</p>
<p>You problem, if you want a top school, is that none of them are rolling and you will need to wait and apply for 11th grade which is a hard thing unless you're an athlete.</p>
<p>The good news is there are some good, if not top, schools that are rolling. 2 I know of that take kids late are Stevenson in CA and Northfield Mount Hermon on the E. Coast. Both solid schools.</p>
<p>You would probably do well to hire a school consultant. Some of them have the kind of relationship that will get a school to accept a late application.</p>
<p>Blairt, where do you get your information? You have posted so many things that just are not true. If a school accepts your late application, and many do, your chances are as good as anyones if they have not yet sent out acceptances. My cousin just submitted some late applications to top schools and was told this over and over.</p>
<p>First you said SPS takes 10 5th formers, now you say 6, and SPS doesn't agree with either.</p>
<p>Thank you for all the great advice. If anyone else knoes of school that accept late, and that you think I would have a shot at PLEASE post them!!!! Thanks!</p>
<p>they accept it as a LATE applicant. which means IF there happened to be no qualified candidates for your app pool (male 9th grade, female 11th) then they would consider yours after they had already filled the class! that means you would have to be someone they NEED (hockey goalie just left for 2nd semester, the saxaphonist dropped out) and wouldn't mind bumping a highly qualified candidate for.. very rare! schools like as many apps as possible...plus, if their yield is lower than expected, than they may reconsider a late app (if more qualified than waitlisters) it also decreases accept rate.. schools aren't going to say, "no, actually, sorry.. you missed the boat. it's not worth applying. good luck at public school!", they say, "apply as a late applicant. we'll let you know if you're accepted 2 months after march 10th, when everyone else is admitted. we wish you good luck in the application process."</p>
<p>we all know how competitive the application process is already.</p>
<p>SPS takes 6. adcom told me so.</p>
<p>i'd reccomend NMH or some hippie school.. almost all on rolling.</p>
<p>Blair, based on the phone interviews, I'm wondering if you even visited these schools. You clearly don't know how this game is played. An adcom told you so!!!!????</p>
<p>SPS is correct, I know several late applicants who got in for various reasons, mostly, the school just wanted them.</p>
<p>I have kind of gathered that this is how schools react to late applications. What I understood that they'll probably look at your application, but not give as much time, and not necessarily finish by the decisions date, since they're completely swamped, but if they really like you, they'll take you. Or, if you and another candidate are up for the same place, they'll pick the other candidate and waitlist you, since they had first priority. Is it something like that?</p>
<p>The first thing you need to do is to get your parents to support your interest in going to boarding school. </p>
<p>If you go to <a href="http://www.boardingschoolreview.com%5B/url%5D">www.boardingschoolreview.com</a>, you will see that there are schools that routinely go into a rolling admissions period after the regular admissions cycle. A few schools that go into rolling that you might want to look at are Northfield Mr. Hermon (as suggested above), the Hill School (at least according to boardingschoolreview), and Blair Academy. If you are a girl, most of the girls-only schools go into rolling. Often schools with acceptance rates above 30% have openings, although they may not list themselves as rolling.</p>
<p>Suze has a good suggestion to hire an education consultant if you and your family become committed. Sometimes schools do not estimate their yield correctly, and find that they have spots after the regular cycle. I heard that this happened to Loomis Chaffee last year and Choate the year before. A good educational consultant is aware of these openings, and can help match you to schools that are a good fit. Because you don't have that much time to research, a good consultant would be very helpful.
Good luck!</p>