<p>Oh…so that’s way it takes such a long time for these applications…don’t you have to sign up on each school’s website to access your application, though?</p>
<p>yeahhhh…common app is for the teachers so they don’t have to fill out 20 billion different froms for all the schools…you still have to do all the school’s indivdual app though and it’s like short answers and at least 2 essays for each school!!!</p>
<p>No WAY. Really?! Oh no!! I had no idea!</p>
<p>So, let me get this straight so I don’t mess up again 
The teachers fill out the common application (given by the SSAT people) and the applicant goes on each school’s website, creates an account, and fills out their individual application.</p>
<p>Shoot. When can I start filling out applications? This is going to take FOREVER!</p>
<p>Transcript request form and Common teacher recommendation forms are part of the Common App. so teachers don’t have to write 10 separate recommendations if you apply to 10 schools. Teachers don’t fill out the Common App…you do. In addition, each school usually has some requirements above and beyond the Common App., i.e. additional essays. SSAT is completely independent/separate – has nothing to do with the Common App. Google SSAT to find the website signup for the tests (tests are often administered at the prep schools). As part of the SSAT sign up they’ll ask you which prep schools you want scores sent to. Unlike the college common application, each school has their own (slightly modified) Common Application on their own admissions website, usually as pdf link, but sometimes as an interactive link. However, while some of the info is easy to type in real time (name, address, parent info, etc.), attaching essays might be more difficult than just working with a hardcopy printout of the pdf file. Sometimes you have to fill in a preliminary online request for info (to get on the prep school admissions systems) before they will send you a hard copy application. Each school is slightly different. Just start looking around the school websites. Next steps will be obvious.</p>
<p>I remember one school required that the essays on the application were hand written by the student (they also requested a typed copy). I imagine they required this as some kind of cross check that the student was actually writing the essays rather than some prep school admissions consultant, but also as some indication of the students commitment to attending the particular school.</p>
<p>Thanks, Exeter123.</p>
<p>When I created my SSAT account last year, I was able to work on my applications from there. Was this application the Common Application? (For Lawrenceville, I also needed to hand in a supplement)</p>
<p>You can go on this site to find common application and make sure you check which schools take it because some dont.
[TABS</a> - The Association of Boarding Schools | tabs.org | boardingschools.com](<a href=“http://www.boardingschools.com/]TABS”>http://www.boardingschools.com/)</p>
<p>Thanks. I needed that link!!!</p>
<p>Thanks urbanflop </p>
<p>The Common Application is also known as the Admission Application Form, right? If so, then Deerfield, Andover, SPS and Choate do not accept it, but Hotchkiss, Exeter, Lawrenceville, Middlesex and Peddie do.</p>
<p>So I’d use the Common Application and send it to those that accept it and do the essays. Where do I find out if I need to do an essay?</p>
<p>For the other schools, I’ll get their application through their website.</p>
<p>Groton’s average SSAT score is above the 92%. I don’t really know much about the other schools, just Groton. Haha. I’m going there next year a day student II former (So happy I got in.) and I love it there! Everyone is so welcoming and warm and since there’s only 350 kids in the whole school it’s like one big happy family.</p>
<p>I do sooooo much dance but Groton doesn’t really have a big dance program 
But Lawrence Academy has a huge dance program and they team up and do one big thing together. Groton has a beautifulllllllll campus and the classes have about 10 kids in them. The II form has around 23 kids (or at least my year does), the III form has around 62, fourth form has about 70, fifth form around 74 and sixth form around 78. </p>
<p>If you decide to apply there I would say to apply as a freshman because they accept like forty new freshman and as a sophomore they accept around 10 new students. It’s definetly worth looking at and for me it’s the perfect fit.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information about Groton, but I think I’ve taken it off my list of schools I’d like to apply to It seems like a very cutthroat environment from what I’ve heard</p>