Curious about boarding schools

Calliemomofgirls
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 02:23:53 +0000

@bsuperinterested In fact, many students go one to reapply at a school where they were rejected and they get in, if they can show growth in their applications.

Some things you may find helpful to search here would be the threads about repeating a year (it sounds like you are considering that?), getting in as a 10th grader (or 11th grader), how to pick a school, how to determine the right fit for a boarding school. Your list seems like a great start – do you know why you are picking them? Have you visited any BS before? Did you visit HK? Can you tell us what you liked and didn’t like? Also, you may want to consider widening the net on your list. The least selective school on your list is Kent and they run about a 30% admission rate. Otherwise, you can consider the entire list “reaches” for just about everyone who applies. (You might also want to read some of the M10 Freakout thread and the threads where people share their results to get a sense for competitiveness.)
None of this is to scare you away. Not at all! But it’s to help you now so you have a happy M10 in 2021!