Another one of those chances threads you all hate but i can't help but post anyway!

Prep School Admissions
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<p>Hey Everyone!</p>

<p>I know, i know, chances are unpredictable…but i can’t help myself. I’m applying to andover, exeter, loomis, hill school amd sps. Here’s my stats:</p>

<p>I live in oregon, not sure if this will help me much but i don’t think they get that many oregonians.</p>

<p>I go to an Arts focused magnet school. i have a 4.0</p>

<p>My reccomendations will be awesome and my interview went really really well, if i do say so myself.</p>

<p>ssat:</p>

<p>reading: 98 %
math: 94%
verbal: 90%
average: 97% (not really sure how they work that one out, but whatever:))</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities</p>

<p>Sports</p>

<p>Basketball: Playing for six years. This is my second year on Beaverton Highschool’s Metro Team. (Starter, Guard) In summer, team played up at freshman level. In Beaverton Hoop Camp I got a Player Award, and tied for shooting and three-point shooting awards.</p>

<p>Soccer: Played five years. (forward, center midfield)</p>

<p>Swimming: several years worth of classes and on swim team for two summers.</p>

<p>Dance: Been dancing for three years at Arts and Communication Magnet Academy. I dance for eight hours of week doing ballet, jazz, and tap pieces. Been in two recitals and have taken summer camps doing ten hours a week, studying ballet, jazz and African. Starting a hip hop class in January.</p>

<p>Performances</p>

<p>17 productions. Eight productions with Rhythm of My Heart (four lead roles). Three Church Musicals and five productions at ACMA (three plays and two dance recitals). In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, I worked as a dancer and chorus member, helping choreograph a dance I performed in. In Spoon River Anthology I worked on tech crew and helped with sound and microphones. I was also in Joyful Noise, a choir, for two years. Three theatre courses at school.</p>

<p>Writing</p>

<p>Awards:
-National English Merit Award
-ACMA (my school) Writing Merit Award
-ACMA Middle School Poetry Award
-Poem ‘Lucy’ published in an anthology by the League of American Poets called Inspirations.
-two times semi-finalist of Letters about Literature.
-State test writing essay used as exemplary essay for teachers in Oregon.</p>

<p>Other Clubs</p>

<p>-On the ACMA math team which is participating in the Math Counts competition.
-Battle of the Books (ACMA team)</p>

<p>Community service</p>

<p>2nd year volunteering at church kindergarten and preschool services.
-cooked for two bake sales earning several hundred dollars for Children’s Cancer Association, I got a Hero Award for that. </p>

<p>Other Art Classes</p>

<p>Filmmaking, Animation, Graphic Design, Drawing, Ceramics, and Book Arts.</p>

<p>So thanks for reading all that, if you have any ideas for safety schools, it would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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<p>Probably in at Hill and Loomis, and you have a great shot at Andover, Exeter, and SPS. I don’t see why they would reject you. haha What is your first choice school?</p>

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<p>Thanks so much Jonathan!!! my first choice…hmmm…not sure, probably sps or andover. but exeter would be amazing too!!! any of these schools would be amazing!</p>

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<p>does anyone know a good safety school for me based on these stats?</p>

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<p>I wish my list was half as long as yours</p>

<p>I don’t know too much about any of this, but I wouldn’t think that you would need a safety because it sounds like you go to a great school already if all else fails (which it won’t)</p>

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<p>awwww, thanks!</p>

<p>i really do like my school…it’s just i can’t imagine staying for highschool. the arts are great, but there isn’t a basketball or a debate team and i can’t study french or pilosophy or do any of the awesome stuff at these schools!</p>

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<p>Don’t bother with safeties, Nelly.
Your a star already!</p>

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<p>NellyRaE. Consider St. Mark’s school in southbourough, MA. It has a phenomenal basketball team. My sister goes there and loves everything about it, especially the food. The campus is really pretty and the acceptance rate is a lot higher then sps, Andover, and the rest.</p>

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<p>thanks you guys!!! I’ll go check out st. marks, thanks for the tip! i’m totally new to this prep school thing and to be perfectly honest didn’t even know it was possible to go to a boarding school as a normal person untila few months ago! so i have no experience and don’t know where to look! haha.</p>

<p>thanks everybody!</p>

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<p>hmmmmm…you look okay to me…but i dunno i’m new to this. :)</p>

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<p>It seems really good. Your SSATs are great and so are your ECs, in addition to everything else.</p>

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<p>THANKS! and i have to keep writing because of the “ten characters” rule…
and now i have to wait 33 seconds…all this for one post…11 seconds now…gosh, this is pointless…</p>

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<p>Oh Nelly! Take a breather in between posts :)</p>