<p>Hey, I was thinking we should make a list of our stats and our potential schools. maybe we could label them as reach, safety, and match. Who wants to go first?</p>
<p>Bump? 10 characters</p>
<p>sounds fun. we can keep in contact thru the whole app and decision process.
ok well here goes.
im applying to loomis, andover, exeter, choate, miss porter's, and hotchkiss. i don't really want to say which are safety, reach, etc. i have mainly a's. a+ in spanish, history, and science. i am in honors science, english, and math. i dont know if it helps, but i take russian. i do travel soccer, basketball, jazz and irish step dance, student council, russian club, and christian fellowship. for ssat, i got 88 overall. i took it again and am waiting for the results. anyone else?</p>
<p>I'm applying 8th/9th grade. I am applying to Peddie, Lawrenceville, and Pennington. All reaches I think. I have all As in school. I am in violin, golf, newspaper, math teams, academic teams, science team, this school spirit club activity, NJHS, and church community service club. I got 97% overall for the SSATs. I have no legacy, no money donation, no URM, and I need FA.</p>
<p>I'll give this a shot. Applying to exeter, andover, choate, and deerfield. All reaches I guess. I had A+'s in every class except English(A), PE(A), and Health(A-). I also take Algebra 2 in 8th grade. I wrestle, play tennis, volunteer at my library, did x-country, do math club. 90 overall on ssats. Oh, and no FA.</p>
<p>forgot, i also volunteer at a senior center every week. not tyring to sound braggy or anything, but just so you know.</p>
<p>School:
It's a private day prep school in the midwest.</p>
<p>Grades: 3.9-4.0 throughout middle school. Grades for first quarter in ninth grade were pretty much all B's and a D+ in geometry. (~3.0) Second quarter grades came out to around a 3.7 ~3.3 overall for first semester. While my school is pretty difficult, my grades could be much higher. I have no idea about my rank but I'm sure it wasn't good at all for first quarter, but hopefully for the first semester it will be top 30%+.</p>
<p>SSAT: 43% overall (26 M, 56 V, 54 R) I took it again last weekend and hoping for an improvement, but I'm not sure that will happen. haha</p>
<p>Classes:
French II
Art Photography
History
Geometry
Spanish I
Biology
English</p>
<p>EC's
Multicultural Focus (9)
Save Darfur (9)
Admissions Ambassador (9)
JV Tennis (9)
Soccer (Grades 1-8, couldn't play this year because they switched the seasons around and I chose tennis. I will probably play soccer instead next year)
Alto Saxophone (Grades 5-8) I still play independently but I couldn't take it this year because I had to choose between taking two foreign languages and band)
Yearbook (7,8)
Student Government (4-8)
Quiz Bowl (6,7,8) Captain</p>
<p>Awards
School-wide winner of Geography Bee (out of 500 kids) (8)
School-wide winner of Spelling Bee (out of 500 kids) (8)
3rd place in county Spelling Bee
1st division ratings in solo/ensemble competitions for a solo and duet</p>
<p>Community Service
I have been volunteering at my mother's business that works with children since I could remember. I usually go there for at least an hour after school each day of the week. It's not formally recorded, though.
I am applying to be a volunteer at a hospice for a few hours each week.</p>
<p>Summer
Andover Summer Session 2007 - Accelerated Elementary French; Speech and Debate B
Japan 2006 (I was one of four students selected of ~20 applicants to spend two weeks in Japan and stay with two host families, each for one week)
Ashbury College 2005 - One week writing course at a local boarding school where my dad lives</p>
<p>Recommendations
Probably below average for math for the academic parts of it, but for the personal parts they should be pretty good. My Spanish recommendation should be amazing. The teacher loves me. :) haha My English recommendation should be great, and I got a personal recommendation with someone I work with in my mother's business, should be great as well.</p>
<p>Essays
Pretty good</p>
<p>Interviews
I had an interview at Andover while I was there in July and it went pretty well. St. Paul's interview was mediocre. I have my Taft interview on Tuesday, and didn't have a Groton interview because they don't conduct off-campus interviews, so I had to replace it with an additional rec.</p>
<p>Uhm. just applying to Exeter.
have all A's at a public school.
some academic clubs, and play a little bit of b-ball. and few years of martial arts.</p>
<p>I'm applying to: Exeter, Andover, Choate, Hotchkiss, St. Paul's, and Loomis. </p>
<p>I barely studied on the SSAT, but here are my scores:</p>
<p>verbal: 780, percentile 98%
math: 800, percentile 99%
reading: 760, percentile 98%</p>
<p>I'm an all A student,
I made a 1980 on the SAT last year and qualified for Grand and State Recognition in Duke University's TIP,
I participate in math/science competitions and consistently win 1st place in all events,
I placed in the top 3 in all events at the state level every year that I participated,
I'm the 5th chair flute in band,
I have a 1st degree black belt in Taekwondo,
and I play a little tennis every now and then.</p>
<p>I'm really interested in math and science, love to read, and would like to learn to speak Latin and French. </p>
<p>I'm Asian American and I'm fluent in Telugu (an Indian language), but I can't read or write it.</p>
<p>And this may not be pertinent, but I love the Harry Potter books. Hence my member name. (And Padfoot does rock. Face it.)</p>
<p>hehe, nice;
that's alot of ECs that are good :)</p>
<p>I really hope that I get in! I'm nervous about Exeter and Andover, though, considering how competitive they are, though. </p>
<p><em>crosses fingers</em></p>
<p>What grade are you in and applying to, padfoot?</p>
<p>padfoot, St. Paul's and Hotchkiss are slightly harder to get into than A/E if you only consider acceptance rates.</p>
<p>Jonathan1: I guess I've been misinformed then. Oh, well. </p>
<p>AGSAABS: I'm in 8th grade and I posted everything else that you asked higher up.</p>
<p>I go to a public school
Chinese, US citizen (NJ)
in 8th grade
applying for 9th
I need FA....my family earns $130,780 a year but of course we still need a good amount of it</p>
<p>applying to:
Choate
Hotchkiss
Taft
Worcester Academy
Peddie</p>
<p>Grades:
Grade 6- All As with occasional B (maybe 3 times throughout whole year)
Grade 7- All As with occasional B (same as above)
Grade 8 - first marking period...Straight As </p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
Won school spelling bee, placed 3rd at regionals
high/honor roll every marking period
level 6 on Piano
mentioned in mother's day essay contest in newspaper
won a prize for Chinese Writing contest
Cheerleading captain for 1 year</p>
<p>Extracurriculars/Sports:
Chinese School 3 years
Chorus 1 year
Piano 5 years
Cheerleading 4 years
Gymnastics 2 years
computer club 1 year
School Newspaper 1 year
Swimming 3 years
Book Club 1 year
Science Newsletter 1 year</p>
<p>Interests:
Community Service (I wanna do this sooooo bad!)
field hockey
lacrosse
cross country</p>
<p>SSAT: 80 (yeah i know....it's probably a bit lower than it should be)
does anyone think my score is low? I'm being paranoid about this score because everyone else has a score that in the 90's and most of the schools I'm applying to are the top tier ones, :(</p>
<p>haha, ok, cause I'm procrastinating like crazy for my exams I guess I'll post some stuff about myself.</p>
<p>Applying for 11th grade: Andover, Exeter, SPS</p>
<p>SSAT:
Verbal Score 800 99%
Math Score 779 90%
Reading Score 743 94%</p>
<p>Total Score 2322 98%</p>
<p>I attend a competitive prep school and have relatively good grades (mostly A-s and As) in mostly honors/AP classes
I do two seasons of varsity sports. I have various honors from these, and for one of them the Andover coach added a note to my admissions file</p>
<p>I write for my school newspaper (and have a leadership position there), I sing, I act, and various other small ECs.</p>
<p>I had an excellent Exeter interview, a pretty good andover interview and an ok/notgreat SPS interview.</p>
<p>I'm really proud of my essays, and expect that I got good teacher recs.</p>
<p>Oh, and my aunt and grandparent both attended Andover.</p>
<p>And now we all have to nervously wait until march 10! ack.</p>
<p>It'll take for ever!</p>
<p>hey kmfansi, You're taking trig in the eighth grade?!!</p>
<p>Yeah, my school's wierd like that.</p>
<p>fadedskyline
Andover loves to take notes for those perspective athletes, but actually it's worth less. Last year two of my friends were taken notes by Andover's coaches, and they have stellar stats, but they got rejected at the end. So don't trust Andover's notes taking, they are worthless.</p>