<p>well then why do you bother asking what your chances are? we’re all giving yo our opinions and I guess your score just sticks out. you never mentioned your violin medals. stop freaking out.
and no, not all of us want to attend for the college matriculations. just because you attend a top BS doesn’t garauntee you a acceptance from an ivy league. We want to get more out of BS.</p>
<p>if all u need is comforting then dont bother coming here, suze and I and the rational others are just giving honest analysis from our experience at BS (suze graduated from Andover and I am a senior at the H’kiss)</p>
<p>and just to give you some context, i hav 2250 SATs, 5 5’s on APs, Almost qualified for USA math olympiad, 3 club presidents, double legacy at cornell (both parents went) and decent GPA, defered from ED… and it’s cornell…for yale…you need a lot more than just your sister…given that i scored a 2250 on the SAT with a 98%on the SSAT…</p>
<p>jeeez. 5 5’s?! niceeee. odd how you got deferred</p>
<p>thank you for your support and information. im sorry about what i said about the Harvard and Yale thing. Thats actually how i found out about the schools, besides exeter and andover, i already knew those schools. However that is one of the main reasons why im applying to these schools, otherwise I wouldnt wanna waste $40,000. But other than the harvard and yale thing all the schools are great and have amazing oppurtunites that i would like to take. even if i dont go to harvard or yale, i think i will be able to learn more and develop good habits by attending boarding school.</p>
<p>suze and bearcats, do you have any older siblings?</p>
<p>eell, I think you have some chances, but they are slim. Notably your SSAT score and the fact that you are an ORM from New York. Yours is another case where three things will really matter:
- Interviews
- Essays
- Whether they need a violin player/swimmer
Remember that people are just giving their opinion; they are not trying to be mean. You did post so you could hear their opinions, so consider them carefully before rejecting them.
Good luck. :)</p>
<p>yes, 2 brothers at cornell, 1 sister at columbia</p>
<p>and actually having a sibling does boost ur chance considerably. just read and listen. as u know my sister went to yale and her husband went to upenn. you obviously went throught the bs admission process and you had to do all the app. and interviews ect. anyway, because my sister and her husband are alumni of yale and upenn they were asked to interview applicant for the school and they agreed. they got packet with a questionare sheet and other stuff. In the package there was a page with admission stat that are not released to the public. i cant remember th eexact numbers for yale, but i remember upenn. the normal acceptance rate is like 14% to upenn. students who applu early descicion get a booost to 31% and student who have had siblings or relatives attend go up to 34%. Yale is just the same but smaller numbers. just soo u liked to know since your a senior ^_^</p>
<p>prettychick
how much do reccomendations count?</p>
<p>recs are a big part of it, but they dont count for everything.
Recs tell the adcoms more about you from a more realistic point of view… but then again… teachers could/usually fluff</p>
<p>that’s legacy, siblings are not legacy, specially UPenn, they ask you NOT to put anyone other than your parents and grandparents on your app, I finished their app half a month ago so i know…Yale says sibling counts, but not as much as direct legacies (parents grandparents)…</p>
<p>and no…i didnt get into cornell with parents, siblings, decent SATs , APs and decnet ECs and the hotchkiss name</p>
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<p>First of all, you’re being pretty defensive. We’re trying to help you and we’re telling you the truth. The admissions committee at these schools do not want Asians from wealthy NYC neighborhoods or even suburbs. The fact that you are overrepresented is going to hurt you, as many of these applicants - Asians and others - frankly have higher scores than you got on the SSAT.</p>
<p>I do agree that some kids with 70 percentiles CAN get into AESDCH, but it is extremely chancy. These kids are usually double legacies and or athletes, and have more to offer to the school than academics. I laud your ECs and can see that you have been an active member of your community, but your SSATs and the fact that you are overreprsented will hurt your application.</p>
<p>Those are just facts.</p>
<p>If you apply to schools like Episcopal High School, Peddie, Mercersburg, Tabor, Pomfret, etc. you would have a much higher chance of getting in. You might struggle at higher schools like AESDCH.</p>
<p>And you have the wrong idea that you should choose a school that is more prestigious. Exeter is stereotyped as being a grind school, and Andover is the older boarding school with the older newspaper. Many people consider it to be the best school. However, people with 99 SSATs and a perfect application can find their niche more at Choate or Hotchkiss than they can at AESDCH. Many people do not want to be part of the pod, or a fish in a sea of many smart people at some of these schools. If you went to Exeter, you would realize that if you were unhappy there, it would be because of your choice because of its prestigiousness.</p>
<p>prettyckitty
thank you very much for your insight. i have a questions regarding my essays though for exeter. if you dont know, they give you 5 questions and you write 2 essays. since exeters motto is “non silibi” i decided to write about my experience with the midnight run. this is a comunnity service program that meets once a month that feeds the homeless of NYC. we meet and prepare food, clothes, and toilteries and go to NYC during th late hours. do you think they would like a topic like this? or do you think its borring. thiss essay as also used for schools. i started out with an antidote. the second exeter essay is about my family and how they shape me into becoming a physician…
are these boring???</p>
<p>Eel, whoever you are, it seems as if you’re depending on a legacy case somewhat, since you posted that as part of your chances thread.</p>
<p>As you know, boarding schools are not going to care that your sister went to Yale. Your chances of getting into Yale, or UPenn, or any other “prestigious” schools, as you like to define them, are determined largely by your SAT score (which has a strong correlation with your SSAT score) and your GPA.</p>
<p>" people with 99 SSATs and a perfect application can find their niche more at Choate or Hotchkiss than they can at AESDCH"
lol? find the error in the statement XDXD</p>
<p>Wait, what was wrong with that?? </p>
<p>Oh, sorry, bear, I didn’t mean it like that! Eel seems to think that Exeter is better than Andover is, and since I believe she’s concentrating too much on “prestigious” schools, she’d probably think Choate and Hotchkiss are lower. Which, they aren’t once you come down to it. </p>
<p>But Choate is my first choice, above Andover!! :D</p>
<p>olivia567
im sorry if i said anything offensive, but let me get this straight. if i dont get into any of these schools, my plan was to stay at my current public school which is still good, but not as good as bs schools. thats why i dont have any saftey schools</p>
<p>OK, thanks Eel. 
Sorry about that. I do wish you luck with these schools, though I want you to realize that they are very competitive.</p>
<p>no there not. if they were i wouldnt be applying to them. i just happen to prefer exeter and andover because there farther aweay from home.</p>