<p>to those who applied for schools like andover, exeter, choate, deerfield, st.paul, etc, etc...</p>
<p>please help me and answer these questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>what was your interview question?</li>
<li>what was the most impressing thing on your application?</li>
<li>how many recommendations didy your turn in?</li>
<li>any words of advice?</li>
</ul>
<p>and if you got denied:
* what was the reason?</p>
<p>thank you ever so much!!!! kinda desperate, you know.</p>
<p>I attend an all-girls boarding school...but I'm a day student. However I hang out with boarders a lot and feel I can answer any questions you have regarding boarding life. PM me if you would like more info, etc.</p>
<p>As for interview question...they sent me a questionnare and I filled it out with my interests, etc. And then they derived questions from that. It turned out my interviewer's sister knew my sister who was an alum and I had similar interests to my interviewer's sister and...well it was slightly strange.</p>
<p>The impressive thing on my application was probably that my sister was an alum and my great-aunt was Assistant to the Head YEARS ago. And I had a large range of interests: Theatre for seven years, piano for five years, flute for four years, singing for three years, softball for four years, school newspaper for a year, basketball for one year, gymnastics for one year (so sue me, I'm unathletic and needed a seasonal sport. I'm not a quitter!), Art Club for one year and Multicultural club for one year. The admissions office also put a handwritten P.S. on my acceptance letter on how much they liked my essay, so I guess that was a good part.</p>
<p>I only submitted the two standard recommendations from my Honors English and Algebra I teachers. I also submitted an essay on the benefits of single-sex education I had written for English and gotten an A- on. (NOT trying to be a suck-up, I swear!)</p>
<p>Advice? Be yourself in the interview, keeping care to be polite. The interviewer wants to see YOU. So try and become friendly. Smile. And try and have fun! :)</p>