Help with admissions and chances NE schools

Prep School Admissions Prep School Chances
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Hi,

I’m an 8th grader and live in NH and currently attend a small parochial school with high relativity prep school admissions rates.
I am thinking of applying to St. Paul’s School which is local to me and Phillips-Exeter Academy which is also near me, and maybe a few others(?). I honestly don’t know my chances of getting in, but many other students from my school get into those schools. My grades are all 89s and above. I also take Spanish but I jumped into an advanced class I can’t get out of.

Science: 97%
Math: 89%
Social Studies: 100%
Language Arts: 95%
Spanish: 85%

I have not yet taken my SSAT but I consider myself a much stronger student in English/SS/Science then Math.

I’m an avid cyclist but I do downhill skiing, cross country skiing and tennis.

I won an award for Computer Sciences

I prefer Social Studies and Science to Math and English but I am proficient in both.

I love photography and I love video editing

I will need financial aid

Anyway, I appreciate all the help I can get. I don’t know much about this!

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I would recommend reaching out the the cycling coach at PEA. He is a great guy. Would you be applying as a day student or boarder at PEA? Obviously boarder at SPS.

Both schools have great financial aid if you get in :slight_smile: they both are completely free to students under a certain threshold.

Start studying for those SSATs!!! Take lots of practice test and don’t be afraid to take them more than once. I know PEA likes at least high 80’s overall.

I would also recommend looking at a few others if you really want to attend boarding school, especially needing financial aid. Cast a wide net with a different range of schools that you would attend if you got in.

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Thank you very much for your advice. I’m working away at that SSAT! Do you have any advice for it? I would be applying as a boarder at PEA. Thank you for the suggestions.

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Feeder school chances are good. Better to have legacy, geodiversity, URM with those scores or recruited athlete.

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Yeah… local kids aren’t high priority.