<p>I am applying to:</p>
<p>Andover Choate SPS
Exeter Deerfield Taft</p>
<p>AND</p>
<p>The Latin School of Chicago</p>
<p>The University of Chicago Labaratory Schools</p>
<p>Fenwick School</p>
<p>I'm applying to Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and Choate</p>
<p>I applied to Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, St. Paul's, Hotchkiss, Taft, Loomis Chaffee, Middlesex, Groton, and Lawrenceville (I know its a lot :))</p>
<p>Cencible, I didn't know anyone else is applying to Pennington! LOL, I thought I was the only one!</p>
<p>Son is applying to exeter, groton, middlesex, sps, taft, choate, lawrenceville, peddie, blair, st. andrews, hill. Seems like alot, but they all accepted the common application. Son only had to complete one application and spend time at kinkos making copies.</p>
<p>11 applications!!!! that's crazy!!!!!! hey, did you go to see the hill school? i'm applying, but didn't get a chnace to go out there and see it, what did you think of it?</p>
<p>I looked into Hill but it was 4+ hours away and my parents wanted me to be relatively close by.</p>
<p>exeter, andover, deerfield, exeter :)</p>
<p>exeter andover</p>
<p>Nellyrae: My son loved Hill. We hear that it's not a top tier school on this forum, whatever that means, but it sure felt like it when compared to the others we visited. The arts center and athletic facility are modern and top notch. They are the equal of the mellon arts center (choate) and lavino field house (Lawrenceville) respectively. </p>
<p>Hill has been the most attentive and responsive to our concerns, mail, email and personal phone calls have been the norm. Just last week we got two unsolicited phone calls one from a parent and one from a student- they were reaching out to see if we had any specific questions or concerns. The other school who did something similar was Exeter.</p>
<p>"Son is applying to exeter, groton, middlesex, sps, taft, choate, lawrenceville, peddie, blair, st. andrews, hill. Seems like alot, but they all accepted the common application. Son only had to complete one application and spend time at kinkos making copies." - adiosamigo</p>
<p>are you serious?? out of those schools i applied to taft, exeter, and lawrenceville and they werent common!</p>
<p>Hotchkiss, Taft</p>
<p>Oh my...
11 applications.
O_O
WOW.</p>
<p>cOLLIde: The TSAO along with other schools readily accept the common application. It's really not necessary to complete 7, 8 or eleven separate applications. For example, my S's middle school only uses the common application for it's 9th grade applicants; last year 13 out of 32 8th grade graduates were accepted and are attending TSAO schools using the common application. In all a total of 22 of those graduates are attending boarding schools now and all used the common application. Choate does not even have a paper application. Instead we were asked to complete it online or submit the common paper app, we chose the latter.</p>
<p>The following is directly from Lawrencevilles admission page.</p>
<p>The</a> Lawrenceville School - Admission: Apply On-line
"Apply on-line with the SSAT common on-line application. This is the easiest and most efficient way to apply". </p>
<p>SSAT</a> Student Guide Online 2007-2008</p>
<p>The Secondary Schools Application has been designed to simplify the admission process for student applicants and the teachers who must complete recommendations. It was developed to make applying to independent schools easier and faster, and it is accepted by most SSAT member schools. </p>
<p>In case your're wondering if this somehow hurts your chances of admission to certain schools, it does not. Refer to my personal example in paragraph one as evidence.. </p>
<p>For further evidence my application package from Lawrenceville states clearly on the first page </p>
<p>" Please note that we also accept the common application which can be completed on paper or on-line. I assure you that there is no advantage to using either the enclosed Lawrenceville application or the on line application, and we encourage you to choose the method with which you are most comfortable. All applications will be given equal consideration"
Gegg W.M. Maloberti
Dean of Admissions</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure this is not groundbreaking news to many here and I don't pretend to be an expert in the matter. I simply hope this helps those who will be applying next year</p>
<p>Hey AGSAABS, I've followed some of your posts..what's your first choice?</p>
<p>I don't really know. At this point, I'd be happy to go to any of the schools that I'm applying to! LOL. What about you?</p>
<p>Any more schools? I really want to finish the graph for march 10 and I would like to have a good number of people to tell me their schools so that it is as acurate as possible</p>
<p>Reading the posts about using the common application to apply to "ten schools" and other "top tier" schools, I think there may be some confusion between the common recommendations used by teachers and schools and the common application used by applicants. Also, some schools have their own online application that they wellcome, but that is different than the SSAT common ap.</p>
<p>For the teachers, I have never heard of a school that does not accept the common recommendation. It is the standard, fine for any school and that is what the applicants' schools will fill out, not separate forms for every school. Yes, Lawrenceville definitely welcomes the common ap, maybe Choate does too and Middlesex doesn't require much on the ap anyway. But other top schools want applicants to fill out the application that they have developed themselves. </p>
<p>For example, from the SSAT website entry for Groton School:</p>
<p>Please Note: Groton School considers the common recommendation forms from your English and math teachers. All other application materials are specific to Groton School. Forms are available on our website or may be requested from our office. Our website is <a href="http://www.groton.org%5B/url%5D">www.groton.org</a></p>
<p>When you go to the SSAT website entry for some other schools, such as Exeter and SPS, there is no link to apply online. At least when my child applied to these schools, they wanted their own forms from the applicants, complete with Exeter's hand-written part. I guess that if you are an amazing applicant, you could get into these schools with the common application. Maybe some schools have an "understanding" with some feeder schools about what their students will submit. But for the average qualified applicant, I don't think it is what the schools prefer and will not help you. If the schools really wanted the common ap, why would they spend time coming up with their own materials?</p>
<p>Did anyone on this board get into schools like Groton, Exeter, SPS using the common application?</p>
<p>I'm applying to only one school Chatham Hall</p>
<p>Inquiring Mind</p>
<p>Your points are well taken. I will tell you that we scheduled our interviews early in Oct/Nov and when we asked about the common application all of the schools to which we applied indicated that they would accept it. I agree that BS's may have an "understanding" with certain feeder schools as you stated - and my S's school definitely falls into this category. But why would the cover letter for Lawrenceville's application include the following statement </p>
<p>" Please note that we also accept the common application which can be completed on paper or on-line. I assure you that there is no advantage to using either the enclosed Lawrenceville application or the on line application, and we encourage you to choose the method with which you are most comfortable. All applications will be given equal consideration"
Gegg W.M. Maloberti
Dean of Admissions</p>
<p>To paraphrase you - If this school really wanted their own application, why would they spend time including this cover letter with their own materials? Furthermore why offer the option?</p>