omg…reading through all your guys messages takes me back to a year ago when i was freaking out too. i just want everyone to know that the fact that you’ve made it this far is absolutely AMAZING. not many young tweens/teenagers go through such a rigorous process at such a young age while balancing school and ecs. i just wanted yall to know you should be extremely proud of yourselves and the fact you’re anxious shows you care
ALSO, for some reason, i remember the month of february(the waiting month) as extremely peaceful. all the application stress was over, and school slowed down. so this month, as much as i know how hard it is to wait, take the time to do something for yourself. go get ice cream, hang out with some friends, watch a movie, go to the mall, read a book, bake, anything! just embrace yourself and take it all in, knowing that completing these apps is an accomplishment in itself.
Are you guys more excited or dreading M10? Loll I can’t wait to find out the decisions, but I’m probably going to be too terrified to open them. Probably just going to give them to my mom and watch her facial expression when she sees…
I had a whole dilemma about which order I should open the schools in. Should I open them in order of my favorites? But maybe it’d be demoralizing to get rejected by my top school first. Least favorites? On second thought, getting rejected by my least favorite school would be even worse. Eventually, I decided that I’m just gonna open the schools by doing an online wheel lol.
Same… the idea of going to any one of these schools makes me so happy but the thought of getting rejected from all of them is so depressing. It’s a mixed bag.
Real… I already have my whole schedule planned for M10. I’m gonna be staying home from school (I couldn’t get any work done anyways knowing that the decisions were out), waking up at 10AM, and then going downstairs to open them with my mom over a toast. The order will be decided by a random online spinner because I’m overthinking commiting to any specific order
Exciting and dreading… I’m probably going to try and wait till the evening to see my decisions so I can see them all at once. I feel like I’ve gotten less worried now that February is here though lol.
Starting to worry about my SSAT, everybody says over 85 percentile is good enough for T10 Schools but I don’t see many ppl getting accepted to these schools with below 90 percentile in stat threads?
We intend to open them as received on those that send emails. My prior son’s acceptance emails started to come in starting at 12:30am up until 7:00am, so some schools send earlier than they state. All others we checked at the same time when you had to log into the admissions portals.
There are plenty of kids at top schools with scores like yours. 85th percentile is a solid score for any school. I’ve had many talks with admissions officers and even chatted with a former admissions officer at one of those top schools (who spoke very freely). They all seem to say the same thing, that SSAT scores are helpful for ensuring that the student won’t be overwhelmed by the academics, but a higher score doesn’t boost your chances much after a certain point. If one student had a great interview and an 85th percentile SSAT score was compared to a student with a poor interview and a 99th percentile (all other things equal), the student with the 85th percentile probably gets in. It’s normal to worry about the score because it’s such a quantitative metric that all applicants submit, but those of us on the outside probably make it a bigger deal than it is.
Here are my interview rankings ( both ways)
top 3 are in person
Exeter ( interview went OT and he gave me personal #)
Andover
Groton
Loomis Chaffee/ Middlesex
Lawrenceville
Kent
Choate
Hotchkiss
Cate
St. Stephens
Taft
Hill ( asked how much my parents make and what they do. Kinda micro aggressive with the question im black btw felt like she assumed I couldn’t afford to go)
i just want everyone to know that the fact that you’ve made it this far is absolutely AMAZING. not many young tweens/teenagers go through such a rigorous process at such a young age while balancing school and ecs. i just wanted yall to know you should be extremely proud of yourselves and the fact you’re anxious shows you care 
