<p>Yezzz… Ikr?</p>
<p>Yea it’s not impossible, but andover accepts 20-40 juniors (hence the bigger classes). SPS accepts virtually nobody after 10th grade.</p>
<p>oh. it is not that hard to make summer nationals though, not as difficult as the junior olympics… and you should definately try if you are going to continue fencing. lots of fun and a great opportunity. a lot of great fencers and watching the men sabre team finals is so much fun. much screaming and yelling and tv cameras and everything. you should definately try. and what school are you attending currently? do they have a strong fencing program?</p>
<p>yo mpicz, believe it or not, the SPS acceptance rate for juniors is the same as it is for freshman and sophomores. They have significantly less applicants. I have personally asked people in the admissions department.</p>
<p>However, the 10 kids they accept are usually brilliant or play a sport. Getting into 11th grade with no hook will be challenging to say the least, especially being asian with no major pull. Besides, if you don’t want to go what’s the point?</p>
<p>Yea thats true, but then again many 11th graders seem to be urged to apply as a repeat (or atleast the ones they want to accept). I know I had not thoughts of even possibly repeating till my SPS interview. Then I decided to repeat for SPS and Deerfield because my interviewer stressed it throughout the interview. </p>
<p>Now that I think about it, it was a pretty good decision. My mom wanted me to wait it out on Exeter waitlist just to stay in '11 (I secretly took my name off the wait list the first day). She’s comfortable with the idea now though.</p>
<p>Exeter didn’t really do so hot in terms of admissions this year… Better than some schools, though. Loomis got hit in between the eyes with a 34% yield this year…</p>
<p>TomtheCat- that seems awfully low- are you sure?</p>
<p>Any other comments ??</p>
<p>Don’t apply if you aren’t going to go…it’s just taking another quaified student’s spot…if you get in…</p>
<p>Carin,</p>
<p>It’s not all about stats, they would want to know exactly why you are leaving your current boarding school, and might even call colleages at your school to ask about you. There would have to be a good reason for the change. And keep in mind you would have to tell all your teachers at your current school that you want to leave, ask them to write recommendation letters (well, two of them, not all of them). So applying out can be a very thorny issue. If you end up staying, everyone will know that you wanted to leave and it can be a tough situation. If you are happy where you are, just stay. As they say, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it!</p>