<p>I'm 14 years old, Asian, and am applying for the 10th grade in some boarding schools such as Loomis, Taft, Cranbrook, Masters school, New Hampton, Holderness, Mercesburg and Wlbraham & Monson Academy. I will need financial aid.</p>
<p>I did well on my interviews with some schools above. The representatives and I enjoyed our interviews a lot (I can tell that in the reps' face expression).</p>
<p>For academic achievements my GPA was 9.3/10 in 6th grade, 9.3/10 in 7th grade, 9.5/10 in 8th grade and I'm confident that I can get around 9.3 this semester! I got the second place at my school in a national math contest. Every year, I got certificate of merit for having the highest number of A+ (10/10) and also be among top 5 out of 400 students in my grade. I am in the English team of my school. I always have the highest vote for the title "Best student" and I am always nominated for every award.</p>
<p>For extra curricular's I have played badminton for 3 years, swimmed for 2 years as exercises, and I'm doing my first year of tennis. I have played the piano for 1 year (T___T I wish I studied it earlier). So I think that my weaknesses are sports and music. I did student goverment in primary school ( vice president in my class and the had the highest vote for Student Council but I then became a vice president). I'm currently in charge of a group of 10 students, a peer leader and I'm the leader in hummanities subjects of my class. I'm the editor of my classs newspaper and year book. I have done more than 20 musicals up to now. I have done several charity activities evey year such as: visting soldiers' mothers, donating food, money and clothes for people in flooded area, teaching Math and Literarure to street childen and abandoned children.</p>
<p>I have taken the ssat and am waiting for my result ^^. I scored 85 on TOEFL and I will take it again!! </p>
<p>Do you think that I have any chance getting to one of these schools? :D</p>
<p>absolutely not. you SWIMMED for too yeerz ahnd yorr on tha anglish teeme?
it would have helped if you were president instead of vice.
you really should have started earlier with piano or something.
just get a 99th percentile and you’ll be somewhere up there.</p>
<p>SnapePotter: Oopppss, my bad for having written “SWIMMED”!!! And I’m sorry if my stats annoyed you. And I don’t understand why u say “absolutely not”, I mean: do you know that much about all schools mentioned above? I know that with my stats, I hardly reach Loomis and Taft. But how about Cranbrooks, Masters, New Hampton and HOlderness? thank you for being honest, anyway. :D</p>
<p>yankeefan1234: We study 14 subjects, that means we have to balance the amount of time spent on each subject. And I’m in the most selective class in my school that means we are in great demand of our teachers, so 9.3/10 is difficult to get. Btw, I’m the top 5 of my school, not my class.</p>
<p>Sue22: You are right!</p>
<p>SevenDad: I agree w you. By saying “too yeerz ahnd yorr on tha anglish teeme?”, he has just debased himself.</p>
<p>LL, you<code>re doing fine. Any negative remarks from CC</code>s in our age group should be taken w/ a grain of salt. I like CC when the seasoned parents give advice. So don`t worry too much. I can share w/ you something I know about one of the schools your looking at. T is a tough school to get into. It is rumored not to take many Asian students. Thats just something I read on CC many times and it may not be true at all. The other schools on your list are all great schools. Just wondering if you might want to consider adding an all girl school. Some of your schools have a large day student populations which may be lonely on the week ends for an international student. :)</p>
<p>@ SevenDad
unlike you, a helpful parent on CC, I’m not here to impress people with kindly words and give misleading hope or any other inspiration just to make a positive image of myself in hopes of gaining some pride in myself and convincing myself that I am a respectable person of society just because I’m a respected man on that COLLEGE FORUM where everyone puts themselves on the heights of society because they’re smart enough to go to good colleges.
YES i totally agree with you I just outdid myself.
btw I was being a little sarcastic when I said “absolutely not” you DO have a 69/100 chance. which is GOOD.</p>
<p>Now get over yourselves, oh respectable citizens of Earth</p>
<p>Snape, are you applying again this year? Are your responses based on what you learned from feedback on your applications last year? serious question, feel free to pm me if you’d rather not respond on the board. (or ignore me altogether )</p>
<p>I’m wondering if your responses to others are based on your experience or just conjecture. The only thing that I have to go on is my son’s experience last year, but I don’t know that his experience (or any one applicant’s experience, for that matter) can be summarily applied to other applicants. But even having gone through the process only once, I don’t think his experience is particularly helpful because I never called to get feedback on his app from the schools where he was WLed or denied. I guess that’s why I don’t generally comment on any one person’s “chances.” Nobody ever told me why he wasn’t admitted. I was thinking that perhaps you had asked and gotten answers and that would possibly benefit myself and others.</p>
<p>Here’s one thing the Loomis Chaffee Office of Admission told me directly: We won’t take a student with a 99th percentile SSAT, does sports, music etc. if he doesn’t do community service. I DO do “community service” as these prep school would call it.
I have to question the values of Loomis Chaffee and other schools who define “community service” in this way. They consider it as some extracurricular where one actually does it in hopes of being acknowledged with some kind of award or something like that or to “get into a top college” or, in this case, to a top prep-school. it’s funny how Loomis Chaffee thinks they SO GOOD that they “won’t take a student” who doesn’t do or hasn’t done what they call “COMMUNITY SERVICE”. </p>
<p>does that help?
and what other hobbies do you have, might I ask?
You’re one great contributor on CC but I think your time here has been quite prolonged for a substantial period.</p>
<p>yes! That is exactly what I meant. thanks. I agree about what some schools consider community service. My children also do tons for their community but not in the adult sponsered club way that most people think of. They don’t like to draw too much attention to what they do and honestly, I don’t think they would consider half of the service that they do to be service as much as just common decency. Yet, there are whole organizations built around the kinds of things they do. When did simply being a good, helpful person become “community service.” Drives me nuts.</p>
<p>I have been on CC for too long! But I have had an applicant every year, believe it or not. The first year, my son was applying to Groton for 8th grade, last year he was applying for 9th at many schools after having been WLed for 8th at Groton, and this year, my daughter is applying. I’ll get a break after that for a few years before college admissions and my youngest (if he goes the prep school route). Trust me, I’ll be glad to disappear after April.</p>
<p>Apologies to the OP for hijacking this thread.</p>
<p>wow, I guess I<code>ve been raised a different way cause I know better than to speak to an elder in that tone…that includes the internet. I hope I</code>m in the majority.</p>
<p>snape! You got rejected from andover and waitlisted at hotchkiss! Stop being so incredibly arrogant and making snarky replies! It’s like a homeless man scoffing at an applicant to goldman sachs! Get real!</p>
<p>Snape. you will get rejected from every university you apply to. Because I said so. There. My apologies OP, for jacking the thread, and please excuse the egregious grammar in my posts.</p>
<p>Snape, please stop being so pretentious and overly supercilious. You think you’re special because of your URM status, but universities are not willing to admit hare-brained gorillas, even if they are URMs.</p>
<p>Hehe, calm down everyone. I’m so happy to get feedback from all of you. The fact that each of us has different ideas has amazingly made this life so beautiful :D.
As you guys can see, my achievements in sports and music is SO NOT great and I will need FA. Would it SERIOUSLY affect my chances to Loomis, Taft, Cranbrooks and Masters? Moreover, I feel that my community service achievement is not good enough.</p>
<p>Maddog: I appreciate your advice and I will definitely pay more time on searching schools. :D. But I think all girl school would be a little bit unrealistic because when I step out into the world, I can’t work with just women.</p>
<p>SnapePotter: I’m curious: How could you estimate that my chance is 69% in? 69% sounds like a particular calculation, I mean, why not 65% or 70%? And you meant 69% in Loomis, Mercersburg and Taft or Cranbrooks, Masters, and Holderness? Honestly, thank you for being a little critical. Haha!!</p>
<p>DiveAlive: I will take the TOEFL again :D. What minimum TOEFL and SSAT scores should I reach to get into all those schools mentioned in my first post?</p>
<p>LL, I<code>ve also read on CC that L school is not so good at handing out a lot of FA$ and I</code>m not sure international students get FA. Did you consider Berkshire, NMH, Brooks, Blair, Governors Westminister, Tabor and Suffield ? I like Mercersburg, Kent, Cranbrooks, Masters, Holderness on your list. I<code>m suggesting these schools because I</code>ve visited some or have friends at others, all but Cran and Hold.
Blair<code>s apps are due Feb 1 and Suffield is rolling which gives you some extra time if you want to add them to your list.
The vibe I</code>m getting on CC is that the international student pool is a bit competitive this yr. so it`s not too late to add a few safety schools to your list. Good luck.</p>
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Haha!!</p>