<p>@bsroxmysox ohmygod that’s really horrible. Good luck this year!! I’m rooting for you.</p>
<p>@bsroxmysox, truthfully, I think that you have the best chance here. Its truly a learning process so you learned from your mistakes from last year and improved this year. Plus, the schools will see your persistence and will consider you even more, trust me. Don’t be to hard on yourself, I hope you get in!</p>
<p>@BHADES is right, now that you know what you did wrong you can greatly improve your apps</p>
<p>@bsroxmysox, if you don’t mind me asking, which schools did you apply to this year?</p>
<p>@AmbiD77 Finally! Someone who’s also applying to 10th grade. It would be funny if we ended up going to the same school!</p>
<p>@confusedonhades I know right! It feels like nobody is applying for 10th. It would be extremely cool if we did!</p>
<p>I’m applying to 11th 
Aren’t I more special?</p>
<p>@PxAlaska I guess so hahah!</p>
<p>@PxAlaska you are indeed very unique! I think you probably have a very high chance since not many apply as 11h graders! :)</p>
<p>Or I have a very low chance because there’s a small amount of competitive applicants :(</p>
<p>@PxAlaska Thanks, hopefully I’ll be spreading my joy amongst the CC boards in a non-gloating fashion come March 10th. And I truly believe you’ll get accepted to at least one of your choices, your personality is great so your stats must be even greater.</p>
<p>@AmbiD77 That is true, now I can face rejection more easily for college and know how to ace the SAT with studying habits from the SSAT.</p>
<p>@BHADES Okay let’s see if I can remember them all…St. Paul’s, Andover, Lawrenceville, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, St. Andrews, Choate (I think…). Yeah forgot that I got accepted to St. Andrews, but my parents didn’t think it was good enough. I was waitlisted at St. Paul’s and Choate (not entirely sure it was Choate, though).</p>
<p>@confusedonhades Hey I’m applying for 10th grade too haha.</p>
<p>@bsroxmysox Cool another 10th grade applicant! Is this your second time applying? Just wondering because I saw that you said you were accepted to St.Andrew’s.</p>
<p>Awh how sweet<3</p>
<p>@confusedonhades Yup, this is my second year in the terribly nervewracking process.</p>
<p>Wow I don’t think I could apply 2 years in a row, I can only handle this kind of stress once. Perhaps twice, for University (;</p>
<p>@CellyZ I know, it is extremely tough. But when I look at my current school, I imagine two different scenarios for the next two years:</p>
<p>Magnet program in public school- Wake up at 5am, get ready, pack lunch, dad drives me to bus stop, try to get to front to get an inside seat because way too many people ride the bus, ride a bumpy uncomfortable bus for 40 minutes, get off, go to school in a school with mold (yes, mold) go home, do homework.</p>
<p>As opposed to…</p>
<p>Boarding school- Wake up at 8 in personalized room, refreshed and awake. Get in line to shower and get ready, put on cute clothes and take time because I have time. Walk to cafe with friend(s), walk to classes, go to afterschool clubs, sports team at 4, shower in locker rooms, spend time with friends, go to sleep.</p>
<p>Now I ask you, which generic school day would you want to go to, and would you be willing to go through all of this to get that? My answer was yes, so here I am.</p>
<p>Now that just seems a little romanticized bsroxmysox. Boarding school is gonna be awesome but no guarantees on refreshed or awake. Regular school allows you to walk to your classes, do clubs, shower in locker rooms, and spend time with friends as well. </p>
<p>But unfortunately my experience is similar:
Wake up at 5:30 get dressed as fast as possible and do lots of stuff. Bus comes a little after 6. Ride bus for 1.5 hours (magnet program public school). Be dizzy and confused because you can’t sleep on something so bumpy. Go to underchallenging classes and eat lunch crap. No clubs or sports offered so 1.5 hours back home</p>
<p>^ Dang. Although for the bus part, it’s like hard to sleep at first, then I fall asleep and wake up when the bus is pulling in and then I’m disoriented and (always) stumble off the bus. I can’t believe you ride for an hour! Holy chiz! And the club or sports thing is weird, none at all at your school??</p>
<p>I also think boarding school gives you a chance to just start over</p>
<p>I agree with BHADES. A clean slate where no one knows you is something that I really want. huge reason I want to apply to Exeover is because of the environment, where you can be socialable and still be studious, instead of the status quo forcing you to pick either one.</p>