Sofi the chevere

I thought that maybe everyone could post all the statistics they used to put in the "Chances" threads and what everyone said, then compare that to what their actual results are. Maybe it'll help future generations of preppies determine what their odds are.

AGSAABS

Year - Applying for freshman year

Schools - Lawrenceville, Pennington, and Peddie

Grades - All As

ECs - violin, golf, newspaper, math team, science team, academic teams, school spirit club, NJHS, and community service

SSATs - Math - 99 percentile
Reading - 96 percentile
Verbal - 90 percentile
Overall - 97 percentile

Recommendations - All excellent, I think

Awards - Many math awards, student of the months and student of the year, other academic awards, etc.

Interviews - All went pretty well

Other - No legacy, no money donation, no URM, and I need F.A.

Results - Accepted - Peddie (F.A. included)
Waitlisted - Lawrenceville
? - Pennington

Jrowe

would it be smarter to go to Pepperdine or the University of Pittsburgh if you were going into medicine as an undergraduate?

AGSAABS

I was accepted at Pennington with F.A. included.

McskittlZ10

I think you've got the wrong section of the site. You could try something in the college area.

risingjunior

Let's see....
Year - Applying for junior year

Boarding/Day: Boarding

Schools - Lawrenceville, Middlesex, Deerfield, Adover

Grades - All As except 2 Bs in math (both high Bs)

ECs - chorus, FCA, student council, lit mag, habitat for humanity, beta, cross country, crew

SSATs - Math - 87 percentile
Reading - 99 percentile
Verbal - 96 percentile
Overall - 98 percentile

Recommendations - Definitely all were good except one, one should have been good but I'm not sure as she didn't show it to me (the rest did)

Awards - Mostly lit awards with some French. Plus some letters (2 cross country) and a scholar athlete. Maybe 8-10 total?

Interviews - All went excellent. Each interviewer said something to the effect of "It's like having coffee with a friend".

Other - No legacy, no money donation, no URM, no nothing special except having friends at Lville and MX

Results - Accepted - Middlesex
Waitlisted - Lawrenceville (top two for Juniors, my interviewer called), Deerfield (also one of the top on the list for juniors, I even get a revisit), Andover (got a Top 25 letter)
Rejected- none

Red Panda

Risingjunior, besides recs, grades, and extracurrics, do you think the SSATs played a big part? Because I know like the AA got 99 percentile but got was waitlisted. Personally, I know a girl who is a rising freshman, got 96 percentile overall but got waitlisted to Lville and Peddie. Oh well.

Jonathan1

Year - Applied for 10th grade

Schools - SPS, Andover, Groton, Taft (in order of preference)

Grades - 7-8 grades: 3.9; 1st semester of 9th: 3.125. (switched to private prep for 9th grade, grades could have been much higher)

ECs - saxophone (5th gr - present) , amnesty international, comm serv (a lot), save darfur, admissions ambassadors, jv tennis, soccer for 9 years, multicultural focus, captain of quiz bowl (8th gr) yearbook (7th and 8th), everything else in 9th

SSAT-
1st time:
26 M
54 R
56 V
43 O

2nd time:
36 M
70 R
78 V
64 O


Recommendations - Math was probably below average academically but above average on personal qualities. Spanish (personal rec) was excellent academically and personally. English was average. I had an additional personal rec with someone I work with and it was excellent. Advisor/GC rec was most likely average.

Awards - 1/500 in school wide spelling bee, 3rd at county level (8th grade) 1/500 in school wide geography bee (8th grade)

Interviews - Andover went pretty well, SPS was average because I didn't feel like I got across everything I wanted to say, Taft was my best and the interviewer liked me. Didn't have a Groton interview.

Other - not an URM, from Mich., go to a private day school

Results -
Rejected - SPS, Taft, Groton, Andover (in order of notification..lol)

I might reapply next year but the school I go to now is great for me. If I apply next year I will complete the process the right way and actually visit all the schools I apply to. I will also apply to school year abroad programs such as SYA, YFU, and AFS.

manofthepeople

I applied 2 years in a row

Day student at Andover, board everywhere else

Grades: At my school we had like 11 classes that everybody had to take always
In seventh grade: a bunch of b's and a c+ first quarter, a bunch of b's second quarter, all A's third and fourth quarter
Eighth grade: All A or better in 1st and 3rd quarter, 1 A- in 2nd and fourth term
Ninth grade: All A's or A+'s so far

Applying for freshman year

SSAT:
98 Overall, 99 math, 99 reading, 87 verbal

Recommendations: all shinning - teachers told me

Awards - A few JHU CTY awards for very high SAT's, a few things from AMC, nothing much really, honor rolls: doesnt really count

Interviews - Went very well, the andover guy even told my mom that he was extremely impressed with me. At brooks it seemed like the admissions lady was drooling over me, i didnt end up applying there.

Other - none unfortunately

EC's:

Hockey
Basketball
Fluent in Russian + Russian theater/literature
Hebrew School
Piano
Kung Fu
CTY Summer Camps/ CTY online crafting the essay

Results:
Accepted: Middlesex (declined: not eligible for FA but still very big monetary hit and we decided it wasn't worth it for Middlesex, i was already going to a charter school)
Waitlisted: Andover
Rejected: Exeter, Deerfield

Applying for sophomore year:

SSAT:
97 Overall
99 Math
97 Reading
92 Verbal

Awards: nothing new

Recommendations: Again, all of my teachers LOVE me

Interviews: Exeter was okay, Andover was great, i got interviewed by a chem teacher and chemistry is one of my favorite subjects and we really talked about it a lot.

New EC's:
Varsity Soccer (starter) (our school is awful at sports and i dont know if the schools knew that you have to be pretty bad not to make varsity but w/e)
JV Basketball (starter) (we had no varsity and all the guys who signed up played JV)

Results:
Accepted - Andover (matriculating and very excited)
Rejected - Exeter (that actually made my decision much simpler for obvious reasons)

risingjunior

Red Panda, no idea. I think as a rising junior they looked more at the PSAT. However, in general I think they take it sort of as how colleges would look at the SAT. It's important, but everyone has bad testing days and colleges/prep schools realize this I bet. I mean, f you have awesome grades and an awful test score, I'm sure schools will realize why.