<p>Hello everyone!
I took the SSAT this year, and I was going to apply for 9th grade '11/'12 school year but I ended up not applying. Overall, I think I got low 80's on my SSAT without much studying. If I studied more for it I have no doubts that I could get in the 90's, it was mostly the math the got me, reading comp was ok, and verbal was a breeze (I have a very large vocabulary due to reading a lot!). </p>
<p>I go to a private prep school in Chicago, and it is not uncommon for a few students in the 8th grade and 9th grade classes to leave to for boarding school, and this year many of my friends (some with not as good of grades as me) got into very good schools. My third term grades were:
Math: 82
Science: 82
History: 97
English: 94
French: 95
Math and Science are not my strongest subjects, and the lackluster grades were due to a bad test grade in both (quadratic equations and intro to physics are not fun). </p>
<p>My EC's are dancing (hip hop and jazz right now but I used to do a lot of ballet), acting (not in any shows this spring but I plan on doing one this fall, I've been acting since I was 7), volleyball (school team), soccer (school team). Next fall in 9th grade I plan on doing Model UN at my school, continuing volleyball, soccer, dancing, and acting, as well as a club or two at my school. I'm really not one to do something just because it looks good on an application, I only do it if I really love it/want to do it. It might sound weird but Model UN sounds like so much fun to me because I follow politics and world news pretty closely (I want to be a political journalist when I grow up). </p>
<p>Besides all that, I love writing and reading, I sail for fun in the summer, I also play golf uncompetitively, I travel a lot and I am very good at speaking French. Last year I did a 2 week writing workshop at Choate Rosemary Hall and this summer I'll be doing the 5 week academic enrichment program there. If I got good grades there would it help my application to boarding schools? I'd be applying to Choate, Middlesex, and St. Paul's, because after doing research I think I'd like those the best. </p>
<p>So is there anything I should do differently/try to change/add/subtract to make my application better? By the way, I'd probably be applying for FA.</p>