<p>I'm applying for boarding school for my junior year (fall of 2011).</p>
<p>Anyone else applying for junior year in 2011?</p>
<p>Also, other people who were new juniors: what were some of the difficulties? What would you do differently?</p>
<p>Thanks for any info :)</p>
<p>you could PM tomthecat, he was a new junior this year at andover. </p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>I may be applying for Junior year! 
Not sure though, my parents still aren’t sold on the whole boarding school idea…</p>
<p>im applying for junior year 2011 too!
im applying to exeter, middlesex, miss porters (my aunt went there), and lawrenceville. where are you applying???</p>
<p>I’m a new junior going into St. Mark’s School this fall I’ll tell you how everything goes :D</p>
<p>And I’m a new junior going to Exeter. PM me if you have any specific questions.</p>
<p>yay! i’m applying to hotchkiss (great grandfather went there), choate (grandmother went), berkshire (grandfather went), kent, andover (other gradnfather went), middlesex (uncle went), groton and st pauls (two aunts went). Haha i have a lot of family at boarding school! </p>
<p>@JoshByron: Yes, please keep us all updated!
@xflippx3: Keep us updated as well
:)</p>
<p>I’ve heard applying junior year is so competitive because there are so few slots, which makes me REALLY nervous.</p>
<p>I’ll keep you guys updated :)</p>
<p>And yeah, applying junior year can be INCREDIBLY competitive. I believe this year only 2 juniors got accepted into Middlesex (I was waitlisted :(). Although, I do remember hearing that they overenrolled sophomores the year before that, which might have lead to the over-competitiveness for junior year.</p>
<p>new junior at MX I will let y’all how it goes </p>
<p>PM with any questions</p>
<p>I’m really worried that I’ll be rejected/waitlisted as a junior, but accepted as a repeat sophmore. I’m not wild about the idea of repeating 10th grade and graduating a year later…</p>
<p>Two schools that I applied to both told me there was a slot opened for me as a repeat 10th grader (SMS and Cate), but I declined their offer and was able to get SMS to reevaluate my application for 11th grade, which eventually led to my acceptance there :)</p>
<p>I heard that the acceptance rate for 11th grade is around the same as the average acceptance rate, since there are less applicants for less spots (proportionate).</p>
<p>^ Not completely true. There ARE less spots, but there are just as many applicants for those spots, therefore the acceptance rate is much much lower.</p>
<p>ill be applying as a junior and im so nervous!</p>
<p>are there really as many people applying junior year as freshman/sophmore? wow i hope not.</p>
<p>@carolinep: where are you thinking of applying?</p>
<p>Josh, I think there are more applicants for grades 9 or 10 than those for grade 11. But the admission officers will expect more from you because you are older and have more time, so in a way it’s more competitive.
Also, keep in mind that the students who are willing to go to a brand new school in their junior years and potencially risk their most important year of high school are probably very ambitious and hardworking themselves. </p>
<p>btw, i’ll be going to Deerfield as a new junior next month, feel free to ask questions about DA or the admission process in general. :D</p>
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<p>Wow…that post kind of scared me…I’ve just got this strong feeling I’m going to fail academically this year :(</p>
<p>And congrats on Deerfield :)</p>
<p>I’m applying as a junior! I’m a bit scared though, i’ve heard that juniors have a lot worse chances of getting in :/</p>
<p>I think im applying at
Exeter, Andover, St. Paul’s, Deerfield, Choate Rosemary Hall, Hotchkiss, and Loomis Chaffee
I want to narrow it down a bit though :p</p>
<p>I am a new junior at Exeter. I just want to warn you guys that it is not the most fun time ever. Even if you get in, it is more difficult to enter as a junior than any other grade because freshmen and sophomores have somewhat easier classes and more years to adjust to boarding school, and seniors don’t have many class requirements to fulfill so they can take somewhat less demanding classes or use their year to sample a bunch of different classes. Also, at Exeter at least, most juniors have to take U.S. history, which involves writing a few infamously large papers. (You might be able to get out of U.S. if you take it in 10th or 11th grade at your old school, but you’ll have to take non-U.S. history classes later.) I faced a few problems with placement and getting my old math, science, and language classes to mesh with the Exeter courses.</p>
<p>Now that the negatives are out of the way, I still think you should consider applying to boarding school as a junior if it will give you significantly more opportunities than your old school. It may be stressful, but it was way better for me to be here than taking boring classes at my old school that won’t get me anywhere. Also, just being around people who are generally better at me than… everything, motivates me to become better more quickly.</p>
<p>Besides finding the coursework hard with a lot of homework, How are the Humanities (English, History) and Math programs at Exeter? I like to know if you had inspiring and dedicated teachers. What do you find special about these programs?</p>