<p>As a bit of a side note, it’s not actually true that hundreds of applicants to those schools have those stats. If about 60,000 kids take the SSAT, only the top 600 score in the 99th. If the top 1.499% are assigned to the 99th percentile, then about 900 kids score in the 99th. About 450 of those are boys, and I’m guessing 150 are 8th-grade boys. Realistically, the majority of those 150 do not apply to expensive and distant boarding schools.</p>