<p>No question about it. Andover should be unbeatable this year. What is it - all top 7 of a 2nd place team returning in the Fall? On the other hand, life can be full of surprises too! Go Big Red!</p>
<p>You don’t put yourself into the academic hell that is Phillips Exeter Academy in order to receive a one-way ticket with your name on it to Harvard. If that’s the only reason that you are even considering to apply here, then I strongly advise that you just save yourself the the time and effort and just drop the idea altogether. </p>
<p>Once you get out of Exeter, you will (in most cases) NEVER have to go through anything nearly as difficult as what you faced there. </p>
<p>If you go to a school like Exeter, in most cases you are severely cutting off your chances of attending an Ivy League school for college. You come here for the academic challenge that it gives you, not just as a stepping stone from point A to point B. </p>
<p>People just get caught up in the idea that Exeter = Harvard. Twenty years down the road, if you know what you want to do in life, its not going to matter whether you went to Harvard or the University of Oklahoma, as long as you stuck to your goal and went for it. </p>
<p>In simple terms, if you really want to go to an Ivy, don’t apply to Exeter.</p>
<p>Yessir, all 7 of us are returning next year, plus some new runners. It’s going to be a fun season.</p>
<p>Are you at Exeter right now, Mainer, or are you entering next year?</p>
<p>Our son will be a 9th-grader at Exeter this Fall. Almost chose Andover. Coach Stableford and Coach Domina were both generous of their time with us, and we were highly favorably impressed with both of them. Our son is a very good runner as well as a pretty good soccer player. He was the #1 runner on a good Middle School team. Maybe you’ll see him on the XC course this Fall.</p>
<p>Yessssss. I’m considered a “top time”. :p</p>
<p>P.S. Maybe you’ll see him in your rear view mirror!</p>
<p>Here’s the deal.
When you go to a top prep school like Exeter or Andover, you are not competing with the millions of public school seniors in the country. You are competing with the 300 or so seniors at your school, who are the top in the country. A place like Harvard, Yale, Princeton or even UPenn can’t and won’t take all 300 of the seniors from Exeter, even if these are the most qualified for the school. Each of the Ivies only has 14 or 15 spots for kids from Exeter, and then 14 or 15 from Andover and so on and so on. So every student from these prep schools could go to a top university, based on their intelligence, however the colleges can only take a few. Also Exeter has a huge endowment and a huge number of students on financial aid, which means that a lot of the students that go to Exeter end up not being able to go to one of the big colleges based on their current financial situations.</p>
<p>However, going to a prep school does help your chances.
For example, the acceptance rate at Harvard is 7% overall. When you look at only the kids who applied from Exeter, 14 were accepted, 27 waitlisted and 58 rejected. This turns the Exeter acceptance rate into 14%, doubling your chances.
The acceptance rate at Princeton is 10%… turning into a 32% Exeter acceptance rate.</p>
<p>I am a sophomore and looking to apply to Exeter academy for 11th grade, my primary strengths are the Math Olympiads and Political savviness. I have won awards in debate, model congress, moot court, and will do mock trial and model un this year, expect to win awards, and am most of all willing to adapt and learn.</p>
<p>here are my sophomore plans, <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/999819-i-am-dedicated-want-know-if-college-would-agree-not.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/999819-i-am-dedicated-want-know-if-college-would-agree-not.html</a></p>
<p>please advice, i am not a prodigy but i am extremely bright and am creative in both sciences and humanities. I love reading, blogging and public speaking. not to mention my technical skills and passion for video editing.</p>
<p>Most of all, i try incorporate my various passions together, whether it’s political videos, or economics and statistics or chem and physics together, :D</p>
<p>am I qualified for E/A or Andover? and which one would be better for my ‘fit’</p>