How do you define a “low” SSAT score?
Their previous comment up above said about 60.
Things I wish we knew – how long the whole process is and feels (months!) but super intense at the same time (everything all at once) for you and your kid to go from deciding to apply to figuring out where they will go to high school. We’re still in the midst of it with revisiting still coming!
Taking to heart some of these wise words “love the schools that love you” and “everything will work/sort itself out at the end” and to preselect a wide range and type of schools (that your kid can fit into) so that your kid has a better chance and be happy with whatever decisions will be post M10. There are more that one path for success and getting into a high school is one aspect of a long and hopefully fun and rewarding road for our kids.
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I’ll add one to your list: The AOs are here and reading. Or, at least one of them is, but I suspect more. During our family’s recent decision process, one AO mentioned something that I had only referenced here. This site is the only place he could have picked this detail up.
I always suspected that might be the case, but this confirmed it. I offer this because one of the moderators had said that they don’t believe the AOs are here. Respectfully, I disagree. And people might benefit from knowing that.
Advice? We are anonymous to each other. But the AOs have enough detail in your application to match you to anything you might write. So things like how well a school’s culture might fit you, how many schools you are applying to, which school is your first choice, etc… might not be things you want to share?
We were very transparent in our process, so did not get tripped up when this happened. I didn’t let the AO know that I realized he had been following what I was writing here. My child chose a different school, so there wasn’t much point in doing so. But I think for students from more competitive markets where the school can easily fill a seat with a student similar to you, you might benefit from revealing less than we did. Being specific allowed several people here to respond both publicly and in dms with very helpful information. So I do not regret it, and I am deeply grateful for the help we received along the way. I can’t think of how else I would have connected to the parents who helped us. But if being matched to the question I asked had hurt my child’s results? I would of course be regretful. Tread lightly.
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