My Chances at Prep Schools

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I am an African-American, and these are my stats.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW
SSAT:92 Overall
Rank: 2/196</p>

<p>Awards:
Perfect Attendance one year (only missed two day in last three years)
Highest Average in Science (6 and 7 grade)
Highest Average in English (6)
Highest Average in Math (6, 7, and 8 grade)
Highest Average in Social Studies (6,7, and 8 grade)
Highest Average in Spanish (7)
Highest Average in MSEN (6)
Won First Place in State Math Competition (6)
Globe Award for Character (6)</p>

<p>EC's:
Duke University Techtronics Engineering Program
Yearbook Staff
Student Government
National Junior Honor Society
AMC 8
Tutoring in Core Subjects
Chirstian Outreach
Piano
MSEN
Young Millionaires Club
Altar Guild
STEARC Member</p>

<p>Great Recommendations from teachers
Great Essays </p>

<p>I'm applying to Exeter, SPS, Andover, and Hotchkiss.</p>

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<p>your chances? I'd say 99%</p>

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<p>I'd say 100.</p>

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<p>your chances? DONT STRESSSSSS! i say 110... gosh your stats amaze me</p>

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<p>What are you guys stats?</p>

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<p>currently... haha they suck </p>

<p>here goes
African American Female
SSAT: 82-86 (dont remember)
GPA: Last year it was a 3.8
Rank: hmmm no clue... probably 7 or 8/105 (last year.. this year 50/160 ok im beating myself up... but I let my grades slip disgustingly)</p>

<p>Awards:
Best Freshman Debater
Best New Debater
2nd place team at Chauncy Hall
Tied 1st or 2nd place speaker at Chauncy Hall
2nd place team at Hotchkiss
YMUN Delegate with Distinction
Hotchkiss Drama Prize
Hotchkiss English Prize</p>

<p>EC's:
President and Founder of UTR- Unity Through Rhythm. Slam poetry and writing club
Member of Speech and Debate team
Board Member of Hotchkiss Drama Association
Stage manager for 2 major school plays
BaHSA-Black and Hispanic student alliance member
Investment Club -when im not lazy-
Varsity Cross Country
Club Tennis
Track... Lacrosse?<br>
The Writing Block (student publication)</p>

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<p>GPA: 3.8
No Ranks in my school LOL ( my cafateria is a gym/basketball court/everything</p>

<p>70% Verbal
74% Math (Dont know why i got this so low because im in the hounors algerba)
90% Reading
83% Total (Im taking the test again)
Awards:
1st place in the 7th Grade science fair (awards...small schools dont have awards....)</p>

<p>Some extra-curricular activites</p>

<p>Music: Violin (4 years) (im in the Junior Great Bay Orchestra)
Guitar (almost 1 year)
Mathcounts (this is my 2nd year in it)</p>

<p>Sports
Floor Hocky</p>

<p>Applying for Phillips Exeter</p>

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<p>do stuvyesant</p>

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<p>how far did you get in mathcounts, state, national?</p>

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<p>Will not playing hurt my chances?</p>

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<p>I didnt get to far...</p>

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<p>what do u mean not playing?</p>

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<p>you are going!!!</p>

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<p>you're in.</p>

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<p>Yeah, my stats weren't nearly so amazing as yours and I got into Andover. :]</p>

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<p>omg. there's also competition in getting into "top high schools?" this is what capitalism does to a country.</p>

<p>soon there's going to be competition in getting into the most selective middle schools. </p>

<p>and in the future, it'll keep going down all the way to the most selective preschools.</p>

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<p>There already is competition to get into the best pre-schools.</p>

<p>Well, not where I'm from but I've heard about it in bigger cities...</p>

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<p>Yeah, there was a documentary on 60 Minutes about rich couples in New York City without rich names that paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a good word in for their 4-year-olds for preschool. Most didn't even get mentioned in the admissions office.</p>

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<p>Tiggeruppercut, you may as well know the sad truth. There are private elementary schools that require IQ tests and interviews for 5 year olds. Many take about the same percentage of applicants as Harvard and Yale. Middle school competition is just brutal at good schools in cities and highly educated suburbs. This goes for magnet public schools as well as private schools. I'm just starting to look at boarding high schools, but I'm starting to get the feeling that it is beyond brutal.</p>

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<p>"most selective middle schools. "</p>

<p>Around where I live, there was a lot of competition to selective middle schools. I got into one, but turned it down for a gifted program in the public education system. Nobody in my elementary school believed me(why would you go to a public school and not private??!! omigod you couldn't have gotten in, liar liar liar) and as a fifth grader I had to actually bring in the letter to prove it to the. I find it rather sad that children at ages 10 and 11 are already prestige-obsessed.</p>