Late Application Experience - international students

catsmum
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:49:49 +0000

Thanks a lot for all your responses and encouragements. In fact, my son is very happy to join NMH. We are lucky that we can get known of NMH from this forum after failure on the first round application. It is a great school, my son is looking forward to receiving its “in-depth” education, not only for college preparation but also trained to be a person with heart and care of others.

I appreciated very much the work of the admission staff of Exeter and Andover, they were very responsive indeed even though they had to handle so many applications.

I felt disappointed on Peddie is because although I paid the application fee and submitted all the application documents, they did not response to us. I think at least, Peddie should send us an application number or their catalogue, which we did receive from every interested school except Peddie after we had filled in their on-line inquiry forms.

Finally, I believe that the success of “Shore” is because she is so brilliant and aggressive. My son’s interviews were pretty good, but his essay might not be good enough for such highly competitive schools (i.e., Andover and Exeter). The weakness part might be his school reports and teachers’ recommendations, most of the teachers of his current school are very strict, and the grades given by them are lower than other schools. It is very difficult to get an “A”. For example, my son only got grade “B” in his “Business Studies” subject, but it is the highest grade in his class.