My Chances

Prep School Admissions
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<p>Hi everybody! I'm back after about a 3-4 month break from the forum. I am sad to tell you this, but I am not going to apply to any boarding schools. I will apply to private day schools in nj, that include: 1.Delbarton School
2. St Joe's(Metuchen)
3. St Peter's Prep
( in order of my favorites)
What are my chances of gettin in?</p>

<p>Arts: Alto Saxaphone(in school and private lessons), Private piano lessons, school chorus, I was selected for the NJ State Honors Chorus with 200 of the best singers in the state,Union County honors band, Jazz band, fisrt chair sazaphone</p>

<p>Athletics: travel baseball(starter), travel basketball(starter), rec. baseball and basketball, my town's PAL football team(starter on offense and defense), golf</p>

<p>Ministry/Clubs: Spanish Club, Cub Scouts, School Newspaper, Community servive through my church, golf club, 2nd place in state wide battle of the books competion</p>

<p>My 1st marking period grades:
Spanish: 95
Honors Science: 96 (the only advanced courses my school offers are
Advanced Algebra: 90 advanced science and algebra. i am in both)
History:99
Process Writing: 95
English: 93</p>

<p>African-American, Male
I'm in 8th grade, applying for 9th grade.
WHAT ARE MY CHANCES!!!!!</p>

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<p>very very very good. what were your SSAT's? (or did you not have to take them?)</p>

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<p>you don't have to take the ssat.
For delbartont i took some stanford standardized test.
for st joe's i took the HSPT
And today, i took the COOP for St Peters</p>

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<p>any input?</p>

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<p>wut do u think of my chances?</p>

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<p>are they boarding? never heard of them. yet, i havnt heard of many schools!!</p>

<p>D'yer Maker seems all knowing. Hes like Don Vito Carlone.
sorry... had to do it. godfather references are inevidable.</p>

<p>i'd PM him.</p>

<p>despite the fact that i dont really know about them, your credentials look good enough for any school you look at!</p>

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<p>ya, i haven't heard of them either. (but don't take that offensively, i'm a suburban kid one the west coast and hadn't heard of nay of these until my cousin randomly decided to apply to andover and then i got a but obsessive, haha) but you look like you've got some great stuff going for you! what are the acceptance rates?</p>

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<p>As a Delbarton alum, judging solely on what you've put down here, I hope you decide to matriculate there next fall. You'd have been a shoo-in back in my day. I know it's much more competitive now -- but I'm not telling you anything you don't know. I try to avoid giving opinions on chances threads, but I do hope it works out between you and my alma mater and that they have the good sense to offer you a space with all the FA you might need and that you and your parents have the good sense to accept such an offer.</p>

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<p>I think you sound really good.</p>

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<p>none of these schools are boarding schools, like i said earlier. delbarton is considred in the "ivy league" of private day schools. it will also save my family a heck of a lot of money considering that i see myself at an ivy league or that calibur of a college.</p>