<p>hi im katie and im new to this sitee well i applying to st.pauls and i really want 2 get in but i dont think i have a great chance my stats
9th grade applying to 10th
currently have maintained a 98-99 average for the last 4 years (we didnt get number grades in elementary)
did really bad on my ssats but only had 5 days to study because my fee waiver didnt come in until like a week before
verbal-674 53%
math 695- 53%
reading 710 82%
total- 2079 64% i could have gotten in the 90s if i had time 2 study
i have very good ec's
tennis for 6 years
head alter girl 7 years
active volunteer at church
president of honor society was president of library club
co founder of an environmental club
200+ hours of volunteer work
very good optional teacher reccomendation and personal aquaintance recc.
im a minority (if that matters)
ranked number one in my school
im doing my interview soon and i have more but i dont feel like writing it haha
tell me my chances i dont care if u say i cant because i really want to but i think my ssats destoyed me</p>
<p>hi tennis girl check out another similar post, my daughter is in the same boat as yourself. That should give you some ideas.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>Sound strong absent ssat scores</p>
<p>what kind of minority?
How good is your tennis?
aplying to other schools?</p>
<p>Your SSATs were pretty bad compared to the kids applying to St. Paul's. Being a URM will help (under-represented minority). Do you have any other hooks? Try applying to many more schools.</p>
<p>Try the MAPL crowd - Mercersburg, Peddie, Lawrenceville.
Or Tabor.
Try Episcopal High School in Alexandra, VA.</p>
<p>Your chances at SPS are low, but your GPA is good and can carry weight in some schools. You have a shot, but try applying to more.</p>
<p>i dont think that your chances are super low, the ssat's can obviously help you alot if you do outstanding on them, but if they see that you are such a good student that may make up for the test scores.... the interview will be pretty important, they want to see you as a person, and see how you think rather than just what you can do on paper.</p>
<p>With its low acceptance rates, SPS is a reach for almost everyone, even applicants with 99% SSATs. Go to the interview and do your best! If you have your heart set on boarding school, you should also consider many of the other very fine boarding schools with higher acceptance rates and average ssats in the 65% range. Some have application deadlines of Feb. 1, so you can still make it happen. My son goes to Blair Academy which meets that criteria. If you are from NYC, it's not that far away.
Good luck and have a great interview!</p>
<p>what kind of minority?
- Im an "other" on all forms my moms indian and my dads white
How good is your tennis?
- im pretty good been on varsity since 8th grade
aplying to other schools
- no im just trying if i dont get accepted its notthe end of the world lol my high schools ok</p>
<p>half indian and white is asian american.
you can clarify it on the form but indians are considered asian as well</p>
<p>Blair, Tilton,VES,etc.Congrats on the consistent hard work,but it is not rewarded like it should be due to the shear volume of apps.Just like college.</p>
<p>Not sure of about boarding school, but for hiring in financial world Indians are not considered URMs.</p>
<p>wait do u mean native american tho? that would definitely be different :)</p>
<p>For boading school someone who is half-Indian and half-white would be considered bi-racial, and a URM.</p>
<p>Yeah, but it depends what races you are. If it's like hispanic and black then you would be an URM, but if you're white and asian then you're not an urm because asians and white's aren't urm's.</p>
<p>I think this whole affirmative action thing is contrary to what this country stands for.</p>
<p>ehh.. i dont think someone who is half white/half indian is going to be a URM.. whites are overrepresented and indians aren't minorities in the app process.. indians (assuming eastern and not american indian) and asians are sort of equal in the app process and there are plenty of indian geniuses that would bring up average tests scores.</p>
<p>I disagree, but only slightly. I think that Indians do not have quite the same reputation and representation as kids from other Asian countries (Hong Kong, China, Japan, etc.), so it probably counts a bit as a URM. However, it's not as strong as, say, being Native American or African-American.</p>
<p>um well my mom is west indian- she is from a island in the caribbean</p>
<p>Sadly until the day comes that there is a box for Human... we all end up being something... being URM will help in some cases and hurt in others.</p>
<p>BS are one area where it helps.. West indies are probably the most under represented at most BS, you can use that to your advantage.</p>
<p>Sadly Asian (Koreans) get the short straw when it comes to applying</p>
<p>if u mean asian indian it doesnt help u at all..if it is native american then sure it helps a lot</p>
<p>I think she means "west indies" most cricket fans will know exactly where that is :)</p>
<p>ewww...the new hotchkiss head of school who's coming next year is a huge cricket fan from wales..hope he doesnt bring cricket here LOL or most kids will be bored to death</p>