<p>OMG SAER. Haiiiiiiiii!!!</p>
<p>We’ve all missed you so much 
We’re going to keep this thread going for a…very long time! And you should join us!</p>
<p>Haha, three weeks?! We were all like, “WHERE’S SAER???!!”</p>
<p>nice to have you back! so where did you end up going?</p>
<p>I knoooow. I tried to take a step back from EVERYTHING BS-related, to weigh my options and make a few tough decisions.</p>
<p>But we all know that my decision to attend Choate wasn’t hard AT ALL.</p>
<p>Revisit days were amazing! I met SOOO MANY AWESOME PEOPLE. they were all so excited when I told them I was definitely going!</p>
<p>AND HA! HA! CC, SUCK IT! I spent months on this forum getting scared out of my mind by the amazingly qualified candidates that seemed eons better than me. I just learned the other day (when I was revisiting) that I am a Choate Scholar, the only accepted one this year, and there are only 4 returning scholars next year. Like, WHAT? Is that not insane?</p>
<p>EVERYTHING BS-related? As in, no joke?! That’s impossible for me :)</p>
<p>That’s great you had so much fun at revisit days!! And omg. Choate Scholar? Congratulations, Saer! That’s insane! That’s ammmaazzinngggggggg! :D</p>
<p>what’s a choate scholar?? anyways, congrats!! i knew you would get in, b/c if you didn’t the admissions committee would probably suffer. </p>
<p>hopefully i’ll see you at choate next year! (if i get off the waitlist)</p>
<p>Congrats again! Psshh, I won’t see any of you since I’m still on the waitlist for L’ville and Peddie. When will we get waitlist results??</p>
<p>A Choate Scholar recieves a FA package that includes a health insurance supplement, travel expenses, and most importantly, a summer experience where I can go somewhere amazing do awesome things like rebuild a school or teach English or something!!</p>
<p>And yeah, no CC basically for 3 weeks. I still talked to people about boarding school, but I tried to ignore emails that weren’t urgent from schools and I didn’t really do any planning past revisit days. It helped me make a better decisions. :D</p>
<p>CC can be so distracting…</p>
<p>Here’s my revisit experience. IT WAS AWESOME!</p>
<p>Choate Revisit Day, April 2nd</p>
<p>I was invited to the Headmaster’s Breakfast, to connect with “teachers and faculty who share your specific interests”. I think only about 30 or so students were invited, because it wasn’t very crowded at the Sally Hart Lodge. I met up with Coach Loeb, and met Mr. Noel (FA), Headmaster Shanahan, and Mr. Diffley (Admissions).
Then we went to Getz Auditorium for a student panel, a speech thing from Mr. Diffley and the student council president, and then parents and children split up. I went with my student guide to her sophomore English class, which was awesome. It was relaxed, casual, but the teacher had a control over the students that would never have happened at my school. Then I went to a Spanish 300 class, which I might take next year, and experienced my first full-immersion language class. It was amazing. I hate Spanish, at my school it’s the worst class to take (but our only offered language) and I wasn’t planning on taking it next year. But it was engaging, interesting, and I learned more in those 40 minutes than in a week in my class at home.
At lunch, my guide sat with me at a table full of her friends. The food is amazing, varied, and very available. Her friends welcomed me completely, and once I told them I’d already decided to attend as a new sophomore, they told me, “The first few weeks are tough as a new sophomore, but you’ll be okay because you can hang with us.” I’d already made friends!
By the way, there are NO bells at Choate. You basically have to guess when class starts. Keep an eye on your watch, then, but teachers are insanely lax about it.
We went to Chem next, where they took a quiz and I met a few more people that were awesome and nice. After that, we went to Chapel, where the chamber Orchestra performed and I met a sophomore oboe player, which is what I play. She was so nice and Mr. Ventre was awesome! He’s the conductor, by the way. Then we got a speech from the head of Choate’s ministry (the name escapes me) and then we were released.
My dad loved it, and he got the campus tour. We went to the school store, where I bought a pair of sweatpants, a pennant, and a bumper sticker. Then we checked out the gym (I love their permanent volleyball courts) and then we left.</p>
<p>All in all, it was amazing. I could literally imagine myself walking those paths from the PMAC to the dining hall or from the SAC to the gym everyday. A full day there felt like it went by in a half hour. I met so many amazing people (who I have now facebooked and will be keeping in touch with until I end up on campus!) I was invited to preseason for volleyball and told I’d be okay as a new sophomore (one of my very few worries). I now know I can do almost everything I do now to the fullest extent, from theatre to orchestra to volleyball. I met the track coach, who told me “You triple jump?? We need triple jumpers!!!” I had fun, and I ate well, and I bought over-priced merchandise.</p>
<p>IT WAS AMAZING.</p>
<p>That’s great, Saer! Really, congratulations!!! That summer experience sounds great-take us with you!!</p>
<p>And yes, CC can be distracting too…</p>
<p>■■■■. Choate sounds like the best place to be. I wish soo bad I applied there! AND YOU’VE ALREADY MADE FRIENDS THAT TOLD YOU THAT YOU CAN HANG OUT WITH THEM. That’s just amazingly awesome.</p>
<p>That day sounds…indescribable.</p>
<p>…Why did you post that again? :)</p>
<p>Haha it REALLY was. I mean, three 40-minute classes, plus lunch, plus 45 minutes sitting in a Chapel/auditorium/etc. literally felt like a half hour. I could feel myself wanting to do this EVERYDAY!</p>
<p>I feel like a lot of people don’t apply to Choate because of hearsay… I don’t know, the party school reputation or the fact that between Exeter and Choate, most would choose Exeter. I’ve just had such an amazing experience so far, and I feel truly blessed (to sound like a total dork haha).</p>
<p>Oh, and the numbers were against me. The economy said, woops, sorry, not much financial aid. The number of applicants went up. The acceptance rate went down.</p>
<p>P.S. My internet went down, and I didn’t see that it posted. I assumed that my first post didn’t go through, and sent it again. When the page loaded a second time, I saw it was a repeat. Oops!</p>
<p>My parents were already queasy about me apply as a boarding student for a place 30 minutes away, otherwise Choate was actually my top school that I wanted to go to!</p>
<p>From the way you describe it, I’d love to do it everyday too!</p>
<p>I didn’t apply for FA this year, but seriously Saer, CONGRATS!!</p>
<p>No worries :)</p>
<p>YAY SO HAPPY. And I’m back on CC, to spam and be a dweeb and post lots. Woo!</p>
<p>And I got a boyfriend. I’ve been in love with him for 2 years (we dated for 6 months last year, also) and now we’re back together. We both realize that in 5 months, I will be leaving and it’s over, but we’re going to keep in touch and when I’m home on vacations, he’s already promised we will DEFINITELY hang out and stuff.</p>
<p>Woo! That’s awesome! For both things!</p>
<p>That’s so sweet I don’t have a boyfriend :(</p>
<p>Haha boyfriends are overrated. And I have to say, I was impressed and surprised by the number of attractive boys at Choate. Definite plus.</p>
<p>Serious? No joke?! You are one lucky person, Saer!!! My school has zero attractive boys.</p>
<p>Haha, let me see… There was the hot guy in English, 2 hot guys in Spanish, 2 at lunch, 1 AMAZING guy in Chem (not necessarily amazing looking, but he was SO nice and funny and sarcastic) and then just in general there were not many gross kids. Everyone looked nicely put together and like they cared about what they looked like.</p>
<p>OMG this all sounds sooooo exciting!!! Hot guys galore! Hah, I wonder if they all play sports, too…</p>
<p>AAH OMG. I got a little lost in the gym with my brother and almost walked into the guys locker room. Oh my goodness, so emabrassing, especially when two amazingly hot lacrosse players walked out and were like… “Um, hello?”</p>