I am an 8th grade student Straight A’s across the board except for mathematics with a B plus
I recently started MUN and got 2 awards, competed at an invitational conference, and also got an award there. I am an athlete. I’m on my school’s varsity wrestling team. I earned 2nd place in a big tournament, bringing kids from all over New England. I participate in my school’s band, playing in both the higher and lower level bands. I have a deep passion for the humanities, arts, and linguistics, and would like to be a lawyer or director when I grow up. I was also on my 7th-grade student council team and hope to run for president next year. I would like to see the perspective of some people who attend Phillips Academy to see how they would think I stack up.
So I didn’t go there, but I think realistically all people here can do is tell you if you are on track to be competitive. Otherwise, no one here is going to see your full application including recommendations, they won’t sit in on your interview, they won’t be part of the conversations where Admissions is discussing their institutional goals that cycle, they won’t see the other applications that cycle . . . .
Basically, it is really impossible for anyone here to know what they would need to know to realistically give you a meaningful probability. If you are competitive, you just have to apply and see what happens.
How important to you is wrestling ? (I assume that you compete at a low weight if competing on varsity & doing well as an 8th grader. Congratulations !)
Cannot assess your chances at Andover, but I do encourage you to consider additional schools if willing to board.
Wrestling is big there. I’d make sure to reach out to the coach and fill out the athletic questionnaire. And prepare for the SSAT, obviously. Are you thinking of entering as a 10th-grader, or re-classing?
Maybe he lives nearby & prefers to be a day student ?
If willing to be a boarding student, then St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire might be of interest as it is on the same level as Andover with respect to academics. (For example, the top 3 college destinations for the SPS Class of 2025 were Harvard & Yale, then Cornell.)
However, if you have exceptional talent as a wrestler and wrestling is of utmost importance to you, then you might want to expand your search into Pennsylvania & New Jersey–the top two states for high school wrestling.
When I said it was Big, I meant supported and popular, besides being good. The girls are particularly good, which, being a coed sport there, brings the fans out.