<p>Thanks, suze. :)</p>
<p>prepparent- When I toured last year they said my stats and scores were well above average for their schools. It also helps a lot that I'm from Colorado. Teachers at my school had connections to both the schools, so I had an in.</p>
<p>sugerkim, what are your stats and scoes? Are mine even comparable to your's?</p>
<p>Jonathan - you're stats are very similar to mine if not better. I can't remember exactly what I put on my apps, but here's the list I can remember.
3.5 GPA
95 percentile on SSAT
27 on ACT in 8th grade
transferred from public school (ranked 3rd out of 295) to small private school the year before I applied
soccer for 9 years
basketball for 7 years (interscholastic for 2)
girl scouts for 10 years
volunteer for local foundation for 8 years
yearbook
went to academic summer camp at Uni. of Denver for 3 summers.
I'm from Colorado, which helped a ton, since most schools have only 10 or so kids from here.</p>
<p>Okay. Thanks.</p>
<p>Do you have any pointers for the interview? What sort of questions do they ask you?</p>
<p>Just relax and think of it as more of a conversation than an interview. They usually ask about your interests and then normally go from there. I talked about my old schools, summer camp, sports, yearbook I even wound up talking about stem cell reasearch. I got one or two questions like "if you could be anybody in history who would you be?"
I recommend interviewing in your order of least favorite to favorite, so that you have practice at the interview before it comes to the ones you feel pressured at.
They let you ask questions, so ask questions about what you want to be asked about. Something like "how do music lessons work here because I play ______ and was wondering about _______" usually works.
Just relax and you'll do fine.</p>
<p>Milton Academy seems to be what you are looking for and it is right up there with A/E and it sends the same if not more people to the top ivies and it is close to Boston in a very safe neighborhood. BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS!!</p>
<p>Both Exeter and Andover asked me what books I had read recently and talk about them. Which is easy... easier if you prepare for it. The schools also asked me to "tell us about your family". So say interesting things-- not the normal generic stuff. And have some good questions ready to ask them at the end. </p>
<p>Choate is pronounced Ch (as in child) oat (as in oatmeal). </p>
<p>"I recommend interviewing in your order of least favorite to favorite"<--Very good advice.</p>
<p>But one more thing that no one has mentioned. The schools want to make sure they have a good yield rate. So that if they let you in, they want to know that you'll actually come. At the interview, they'll probably ask you what other schools you're applying to and then they write them down. So the less schools, the more likely the chance you would choose them. See? They WANT to be chosen. So they're more likely to choose someone who would choose them back? You follow?</p>
<p>Thanks, sugerkim. The interview actually sounds fun. :)</p>
<p>ggspin21, I like Milton too. The only thing I don't like about it, is that it's only 50% boarding. I'll probably end up applying anyway.</p>
<p>ex2, how many schools do you recommend I apply to? How many did yuo apply to? Should I mention that [insert school here] is my number one choice? (I wouldn't lie. :))</p>
<p>yeah but that could be good too because you probably don't want to hang around the school EVERY weekend atleast you'll have friends that you can go to their houses</p>
<p>Does the school allow that?</p>
<p>I'd be so awesome living like...10 minutes from Boston.</p>
<p>Does Milton only offer boarding from grades 9 - 11?</p>
<p>That's what it said when I was filling on the inquiry form.</p>
<p>Yes I'm sure they allow you to go home with your friends also i don't think that they have saturday morning classes</p>
<p>oh i go to milton and there is boarding from 9-12 grade but they dont let people apply to be a senior</p>
<p>Considering all of the stuff you've posted, I would definitely consider Concord Academy in Mass. It's a great place for academics - particularly the humanities/arts, and is less big on sports.</p>
<p>I like sports, though.</p>
<p>Bwmash, could you tell me a little more about your experience at Milton Academy? How's the campus? Any pictures?</p>
<p>for the most part i really enjoy Milton. the dorms are set up in an unusual way where there are all four classes living together mostly for all four years. i personally love living in the dorm i think its the best part of milton, and having all four classes in one dorm gets you to meet people you wouldnt normally. the academics are really good, and if there isnt a class you can always do independent study.</p>
<p>we also have amazing perfroming arts. a lot of sports are kind of a joke, but we also continuely have good tennis, squash football teams.</p>
<p>everyone puts alot of pressure on academics and especially college and 50 % of the graduating class went to schools in the top 20 national and top 20 liberal arts colleges </p>
<p>there are some rich snobby people, but i would say there were at least the same amount of really cool and quirky people </p>
<p>the campus is not as big as many other prep schools but were right next to boston so it s much more accesible to places, and milton is a medium sized town.</p>
<p>Thanks..... :)</p>
<p>Haha I am a day student at Milton, and boarders come to my house lots, so I know it is deff possible.</p>
<p>You might want to consider applying to Loomis Chaffee in Windsor CT. Our S just finished a PG year there and had a very good experience - his only regret was only having one year there. With lots of sports at every level, amazing campus and athletic facilities, rigorous academic challenges, many excellent faculty members, Loomis has lots of opportunities for almost anyone!</p>