Official boarding school decisions and stats

Prep School Admissions
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<p>With only two and a half months remaining out of a process that for many has occupied our minds for over a year, I think it's a good time to start this thread. When your decisions arrive on and after March 10, 2009, post your decisions to this board using the following code for the sake of easy readability. This thread SHOULD NOT be used for the purpose of bragging, nor should you feel obligated to post a decision you are uncomfortable with CC's prep school population reading. This board is only for the purpose of gauging what kinds of applicants each school accepted, which is why the code below includes space for various stats.</p>

<p>To find your WEIGHTED and UNWEIGHTED GPA, go to Staples</a> High School--Info--GPA Calculator</p>

<p>Remember, to make the code below work, you must delete the spaces within the brackets. Otherwise it will just appear as it does immediately below. The second decision line is for if you had different decisions from schools such as waitlisting or rejection. If additional decision lines are not needed, delete them. If another is, simply copy and paste.</p>

<p>Make sure to preview your posts to make sure your code works!</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SSAT:
[ *] GPA Unweighted-Weighted:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Principle/Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] Current School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>

<p>Here are two examples of how this should work, the first for an example girl named Jane Doe.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted at HADES/HEADS</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SSAT: 2400 (99th percentile)
[</em>] GPA Unweighted-Weighted: 4.0-4.7
[<em>] Rank: My school does not rank.
[</em>] Other stats: SAT II World History - 800. PSAT - 2400. Class president, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Well written and showed off my nerdy, knowledge-hungry self!
[</em>] Teacher Recs: They were probably excellent!
[<em>] Principle/Counselor Rec: She loves me, so it was probably excellent too!
[</em>] Hook (if any): I am Native American and potentially the first in my family to plan on attending college.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Wyoming
[</em>] Current School Type: Native American
[<em>] Ethnicity: Native American
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors: I felt like I had a great interview!
General Comments: I can't wait to study microbiology in the Gelb Science Center!</p>

<p>Here's an example for little Bobby Smith.</p>

<p>Decision: Rejected at Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Milton, NMH, SPS
Decision: Accepted at Choate!
Decision: Waitlisted at Kent</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SSAT: My dad said I wouldn't like to see it
[</em>] GPA Unweighted-Weighted: 2.7-2.7
[<em>] Rank: My school doesn't rank
[</em>] Other stats: I was suspended for stabbing a kid with a pencil, twice
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: By the time I realized I was supposed to write essays it was March 10
[</em>] Teacher Recs: They think I'm a distraction so they probably weren't great
[<em>] Principle/Counselor Rec: I see the principle a lot, so probably not good
[</em>] Hook (if any): I'm good at arm wrestling...
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Texas
[</em>] Current School Type: Large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments: I can't wait to go to Choate!</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone with their applications, and write good essays!</p>

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<p>Did you get the format from the stanford thread?</p>

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<p>That's pretty cool :D</p>

<p>It'll probably be very useful for the years after.
Why not wait to post it a little later though??</p>

<p>--
I also like how there's like a little sticky note next to the thread! :D</p>

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<p>Yea, I think I new one needs to be posted, probably without any other posts to be considered OFFICIAL? haha</p>

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<p>cuz nobody should steal tom's idea from now on :P</p>

<p>i love the examples</p>

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<p>LOL well I actually got it from the Brown forum. But it's circulating all over the place. Been stolen a million times, thought I'd steal it again and use it in a high school forum :-)</p>

<p>As for not posting it later? Well, I just felt like doing it now. Need I a reason for following my heart? =P Of course, watch this thread sink onto the fifth page of Prep School Admissions by the time letters actually come. In that event, I'll post a new one :-)</p>

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<p>Good luck trying to make it work with the insane excitement that will happen from March 9th to 11th. Nice idea though.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'll recreate it in early March. The idea was good, timing not so much.</p>

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<p>wow this thread is already making me nervous</p>

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<p>is it that easy to get into chaote?</p>

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<p>no the examples were exaggerated (in a big way). At least I think that was the intent? Choate although not as tough as exeter and other HEADS is still very tough to get in to.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it was way exaggerated. I also don't think you need to be a perfect SSAT scoring native American female who would be the first of kin to attend college to get into the HEADS schools.</p>

<p>Although, I do know a Choate student who was accepted at Choate having been suspended for stabbing a kid with a pencil, no joke. That's why I put that little stat into Bobby's example. It sounds ridiculous but hey, maybe Choate doesn't mind accepting little criminals! They certainly don't do a huge amount to combat the drugged up social scene over there...</p>

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<p>I laughed out loud reading Bobby Smith's profile! You're a riot Tom The Cat! :)</p>

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<p>Thank you, thank you, far too kind =)
That poor Bobby Smith doesn't have a whole lot going for him...</p>

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<p>HAHAHAHAH
BOBBY SMITH.
* SSAT: My dad said I wouldn't like to see it
* Other stats: I was suspended for stabbing a kid with a pencil, twice
* Essays: By the time I realized I was supposed to write essays it was March 10
^ I find it amazing that he was still accepted to Choate hahahahahah ;)</p>

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<p>BOBBY SMITH: Hook: I'm good at arm wrestling!</p>

<p>ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>@ tom :
if you're reposting this in March, could you please add an SSAT breakdown, rather than just SSAT? i'd like to know if there was anybody who like, did well on 2 categories and flopped on another (like me! haha) who got in one of the schools i'm interested in? thanks!</p>