<p>My current goal is to get into Phillips Exeter and I'm really motivated and determined to get in.
The main reason I want to gois because of the Harkness Table and how effective it is. Another thing is because I want to learn from knowledgable teachers.
In 6th and 7th grade I lived in Newton, Massachusetts going to a public school.
I'm fluent in English, and Korean.
I don't play a lot of sports but I concentrate on the one I really love and that's Football(soccer). I haven't really played in my school team or any teams because I never really got the proper chance.
I don't really play any instruments. I used to play the Violin, Viola, and Piano but it seemed like music was never my thing.
My grades weren't the best. (BTW: My school has 3 terms.)
I never got an A in English in both years. I kept getting B+'s.
I got straight A's in Science so that was no problem.
In Social Studies/History, it was two different stories. In 6th grade, I got 2 B+'s and 1 A-.
In 7th grade however, I got an A+, A, and an A-.
World Language was also different. I got 2 A+'s and 1 B in 6th grade when I took Chinese.
However, I switched languages and did French in 7th grade. There I got 1 A- and 2 A's.
In orchestra I got A's for both years.
However, the weirdest thing was math.
In 6th grade I got A+'s for all three terms.
In 7th grade, I "applied" for High School math (The Middle School and the High School were right next to each other so I would go to the early classes in the morning)
and I got in! Now math was my specialty. However the teachers thought that I was not too I guess "mature" enough for high school math. It's not that I was a trouble maker.
It was just that they thought it wasn't really good for me to go to classes with students 2 years older than me.
So eventually, the classes in 7th grade became so boring and I eventually didn't pay attention to the tests, homework, etc...
In my first term. I got B+. In the second term, I got a B. And in the third term. I actually got a C+. It was unbelievable but I would also take blame for not taking it too seriously.
So that's my grades and I'm really worried that it's too weak compared to other kids applying.
I now moved to Korea and the schooling system is pretty different.
I want to start good at the school and get good relationships with teachers and get good recommendations and good grades.
I did a lot of things for community service.
I went to an Orphanage in Croatia for 2 years and went for about 300 hours.
In school, when I was in 6th grade, I asked the principal if we could start a club to support the victims of the Japan Earthquake. He said that was fine and we sold cupcakes, food, etc... after school. Eventually, it spread to other schools and in total, we earned about 10,000 dollars and the principal gave me some sort of award and I plan on doing more things like that in the future.
I never really got any Science Awards, or any Sports Award or any Musical Awards.
The only thing I got an award for was math.
I got a perfect score for AMC 8. I did pretty good on the AMC 10.
I did good in Math Kangaroo and went to the International Competition.</p>
<p>The other thing is SSAT.
I'm really confident on the Math section but I'm just worried on Vocabulary.
Can anyone please tell me where SSAT Upper Level Vocabulary list is. That's all I need.
Another thing I have a question about is the interview.
What do they ask you? How does it go like?
And how important is the essay and teacher recommendation?</p>
<p>If it helps my sister is going there.</p>
<p>Thanks so much and sorry for it being so long. :P</p>