Boarding School's for average to below average SSAT scores

Happytimes2001
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 20:13:31 +0000

You have to look carefully too. Some schools have a large legacy/athletic pool. Others are more of a mix. Some have a handful of kids with top scores and a bunch with lower scores to come out upper average. Some have really high SAT scores and some are lower. What’s really important is your trajectory. Do you care if the median SAT score is lower than your score? Or if the acceptance rate is low/high and you have a great time while there?

Don’t go to a school based on acceptance rates. One school my kid considered had a really low admit rate but then we spoke to someone whose kids had attended with a close connection and we learned the makeup and it wasn’t what we would have imagined.
At any BS, there will be really strong students and some really strong athletes ( some overlap); some kids from very unusual places and some kids with famous parents ( or hyper rich). The school has to fit YOU. If you find one you like, that’s great. In the real world, no one cares if you went to X or Y. For the most part, people don’t even know the names of these schools.