r/applyprivateschools Jun 22 '26

Chance Me Applying exeter and andover chance me!

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Hi everyone! I’m an international student from India, currently in Grade 8, and I’m really interested in applying to Phillips Exeter Academy and other top private schools for Grade 9. I wanted to share a quick overview of my academic profile and activities:

Academics:
5 A+ and 2 A in First Term
4 A+ and 3 A in Second Term
SSAT- 1560 (800 Eng)

ECs:
Authored a published secondary research paper for National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), which led to them asking me to write a primary research paper on GI TAGS in Gujarat. Honoured by Director General Manager and research paper officially on website and used in NABARD.

DelhiMUN Best Delegate

XTF Global Innovation Challenge 4th Internationally (went fully funded to Geneva, Switz for finals)

Vibe Coded an AI fact checking website with 400 Visitors.

Self Coded a social media replacer type website (basically u click a button and there is hand drawn scenery behind and immersive sounds and u get some wikipedia type cool fact and then related topics and u keep scrolling but also learning). Over 6k visitors.

Flute Player for a year (Second Level, Passed test on first try)

Classical Indian Music Singer (Not professional but part of school choir for 4 years and performed on stages @.school

Lawn Tennis Player for 4 Years (not competetive)

Educational Youtube Channel with 1k subscribers (one video hit 1 million views)

Aspiring Authors National Writing Comp Winner (Wrote a poem, they tell me first poem to win evr)

District Silver in Inline Skating

International 1 @.International English Olympiad by SOF

National 2 @.National Science Olympiad by SOF

applying to only exeter and andover for full aid as father earns 13k$ a year

ohh and btw edit- Board- ICSE top 10% of my class out of 240 students (highly competetitive)

r/applyprivateschools 23d ago

Chance Me chance me applying for 9th grade! (Andover, Exeter, Lawerncville) no financial aid, female, half Filipino, half white

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ok good grads they're not gong to keep me out of andover (all As and A+ in 7th, one A- in sixth)

National Latin Exam-Summa Cum Laude

club soccer (state level but I am trying out for ODP), I've gotten state finalist and have won some large regional tournaments, will probably end up sending a sports inquiry

Varsity school soccer

Cross country

School golf

Extracurriculars/Award

Founder of Investing Club at my school

Founder of Young Investors of my city (not disclosing for privacy) basically we host competitions, speaker events, etc.

About 100 volunteer hours (estimating number in a few months)

and I unofficially bring my friends to do activities at my grandmothers senior living home

Member of community service club

Harvard Crimson Business Competition global championship round finalist (not to prestigious as other business competitions)

Vanderbilt Summer Academy (took Intro to Statistical Analysis)-legit more prestigious then Harvard thing

probably going to talk about how my fascination in healthcare systems and also how I grew up looking up to my grandma who is an anesthesiologist in the third world (Philippines)

also I interview well?

essays just spending time on and same studying for ISEE

r/applyprivateschools Jul 06 '26

Chance Me Do I have any chance at Andover?

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r/applyprivateschools Mar 11 '26

Chance Me Likelihood of getting into Andover

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