Late Application Experience - international students

shore
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:42:58 +0000

Sorry to hear about this all but with schools like Hotchkiss, Andover, Exeter and SPS even the best of students will get rejected.

I don’t know whether his TOEFL scores are good as I didn’t take them but his SSAT scores were easily good enough and not needing financial aid helps. But there is so much more to an application then just these academic stats. One of the 'hook’s I believe helped me (and I was exceptionally lucky with applications getting into all 7 tier 1 schools I applied to!) was my interviews were all very strong. Interviews and essays are huge for applications.

how did your son say his interviews were for his schools? Because with every school I applied to I went way over time and had like 2 hour conversations at SPS, Exeter and Andover (which I thought was a bad sign intially)!

Well at least you got into NHM which is a very good school but I’m sorry but I’m not sure why you’re disappointed with SPS or Peddie? I only got my package from SPS when I was accepted so I was under the impression you only get the stuff if you’re accepted?