<p>I am a 9th grade student currently boarding first year in US. I have a GPA of 4.0 and also play in school's basketball team. I wanted to transfer to a school that has better basketball pprogram or in better academic tier. I applied Loomis and Philips and just got rejection letters from them. </p>
<p>I am very disappointed since I have no school to fall back on. I dont know why they rejected me and I think its because I did not do good on SSAT --- i didnt prepare it and my score is a lil short of 2000.</p>
<p>Any suggestion on schools? are there still any good schools still accepting applicants? If there are what are the names of schools? Or should retake SSAT and apply next year? I really need some help so your responses are highly appreciated.</p>
<p>Well I think you can apply late to schools but they will definitely go to their waitlists first so it is pretty hard. I think you should try next year and try to play better basketball and get better grades. If you apply twice it may show the AO’s you really care. Also try to look at other schools because 2 is a little low compared to how many schools other kids apply too.</p>
<p>Retake, and reapply next year.</p>
<p>Recognize, however, that we’ve seen other students who have tried to transfer from one boarding school to a better one and it has not resulted in favorable results in most (all cases). So you’d have to be able to explain to the new school why you are transferring. And it has to be more compelling than “better basketball” and “better academics.” The pools are competitive and they need to understand what YOU will bring to the campus as well. Too many students focus on stats, when there are many qualitative things that the boarding schools are going to look at - including why you are at one boarding school and wanting to attend another.</p>