<p>Well,</p>
<p>I received my October scores, which amounted to:</p>
<p>Verbal 94%
Math 75%
Reading 96%</p>
<p>Overall 95% (2268)</p>
<p>I'm applying to:
Exeter
Andover
Hotchkiss
SPS
Taft
Peddie</p>
<p>I've been only reading (sorry guys) these boards, and I can't help but be nervous that I'll get rejected...I don't have any special attraction for these schools...except for the fact that I'm from Wyoming...</p>
<p>Well, what do you guys think?</p>
<p>God, these boards are intimidating as anything. Don’t be worried- do your best, and think about the positive attributes you have rather than “OMG GOTS NO SMARTIES” which you obviously do have… Smarties, I mean.
This board attracts serious and talented applicants, meaning a larger pool of them will have 99% SSAT, 10 years of experience volunteering in China, play the piano, flute, cello, AND the xylophone- at the same time, and speaks 8 languages.
You’ll be fine, and just focus on your interviews and essays.</p>
<p>Your scores are MORE than fine…don’t worry that one section is lower. Focus on your essays, interviews, etc, and what makes YOU a special person and why you want to attend each school and become part of its community. Just be aware that most, if not all, of the schools to which you are applying have low acceptance rates (Exeter, Andover, Hotchkiss, SPS are around 20%). But, your scores definitely put you “in the game” so be sure that you can make yourself stand out in other ways.</p>
<p>Have you visited any of the schools you have listed? Your scores are great, but many of your school choices are very difficult to get into. You might want to see if there are other schools (still great!!) that have higher acceptance rates.</p>
<p>I’ll be frank. When you tagged the topic with bad, nervous and wanttodie I laughed a little.</p>
<p>Honestly, I thought it was all scores… Now I realize that the top 10 schools could fill every spot with a 99% SSAT… You need to have a little more. Personality, life changing experiences and some interesting ECs.</p>
<p>what grade are you applying to? those scores are better than good!</p>
<p>I’m not worrying too much about the application essays, as I have a lot of those “life-changing” things to write about. It’s just the ECs.</p>
<p>Well, to be honest, I have lots of ECs but I’m THE quantity over quality type. I’ve been snowboarding, knitting, photographing, community service(ing), rock climbing, ultimate frisbee(ing on a team), violin(ing), acting, and kayaking. I’ve got plenty of ECs that I love, but I have no awards or achievements whatsoever. </p>
<p>BTW I’m applying for 10th grade.</p>
<p>A question: how much do they weigh on the grades of this school year?</p>
<p>And thanks for the comments everyone :)</p>
<p>howd u study?</p>
<p>Well, to be honest, I didn’t study in terms of making and using vocab cards. </p>
<p>I used Provoc on my MacBook and went over a couple of words online.</p>
<p>For Math and Reading, well, I didn’t do any preparations.</p>
<p>I have to say, for math, I should have prepared…:(</p>
<p>My son’s scores were almost exactly the same as those. I asked the schools about the differnece in math and the other and they said not to worry about it - his grades in math were A/A+ in geometry so they said it would be fine. It was.</p>
<p>What struck me was that there must be lots of people who score very high on math and low of verbal if you can do the opposite and still be in the 90’s overall. </p>
<p>As far as your EC’s - you don’t need awards, I think you just need one or two of them that you are passionate about. Focus on that in your interview. I think we all here on this board put too much emphasis on EC’s and that they are probably the least important aspect of the application - unless you are an underwater tuba player and the school needs one that year.</p>
<p>Ah well…I already had my interviews so it’s the applications I have to worry about…
Thanks everyone for the replies :)</p>