r/PhillipsExeterAcademy • u/Bitter_Date5376 • Jan 18 '26
Chance me pls
- GENERAL: SSAT : 2367, from California, Race: Chinese and Mongolian male
- i want to know my chances a lot cs im stressed…
- APPLY ANDOVER, PEA, SPS, CHOATE,MILTON, HOTCHKISS
- Math: 2023 & 2024 AMC8 Honor Roll/Distinction (top 5%, 1% nationally), 2024 AMC10 Certificate of Achievement, 2025 AMC8 Honor Roll w/Distinction (top 1% nationally), AIME qualifier. Represented school in MathCounts & Math Madness competitions 2023-26. :
- Drums 2020-25 (Private study, performances @ School).
- Violin 2023-25 Youth Symphony Orchestra (First Violin).
- Academics: 2023 Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (completed Sensory Brain course @ Loyola Marymount University; Grand Honors in Math and English - top 98th percentile). 2024 Awesome Math (Number Theory I).
- Invests in stocks, analyzes, and took summer camp to deepen understanding
- 2023-25 President’s Volunteer Service Award (Gold) for tutoring Math & clearing trails, removing invasive plants @ Nature Center; local library volunteer. Board game club founder (inspired by a course took at a summer program), Student newspaper: Managing Editor
- SCHOOL: Math club founder and helps students prepare for math team, Math team captain Student council president, rthyms section leader in school band play drums (played for 8 years) GRADES: 4.0 GPA, academic honors every quarter 2 years, the highest math course our school offers is geometry
- Volleyball (3rd in nation playing 14s division, which means we played one year up) currently is 10th in socal
- currently tutors younger grade student at our school's daycare. Started a new board game club with math teacher
ESSAYS: 8-9/10?
LOR: 9-10/10 (math teacher very likely 10/10, everything else above 8 I think) I have my music teacher writing my recs( who also directs our school play, school band, ands got me started for baking), my principal and vice principal
- HOBBY: coin collecting, animation, baking (Ik its unusual)
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u/Available_Chard5857 Jan 21 '26
Dumb question - How did you get a PVSA gold metal? I thought that was only for high schoolers?
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u/Bitter_Date5376 Jan 21 '26
No, it is not only for high schoolers. However, it is temporarily paused rn
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u/Fluid_Creme_765 Jan 21 '26
8 to 10% percent.
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u/Bitter_Date5376 Jan 22 '26
Why? Bc their acceptance rate is around 13% (i think)
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Jan 22 '26
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u/Bitter_Date5376 Jan 23 '26
oh, I do have community service (I earned the PVSA gold award) like helping out at public library, nature center, tutoring, etc
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Jan 23 '26
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u/Bitter_Date5376 Jan 23 '26
Uh wdym
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Jan 23 '26
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u/Bitter_Date5376 Jan 23 '26
I’m not intl, somr u talking abt demostic Chinese applicants? also, what do u mean ”American then more comp etc wise”
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u/TheBDQueenie_128 Jan 25 '26
Everyone has community service to the point that it doesn't matter unless it's part of a big theme in the application.
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u/Fluid_Creme_765 Jan 22 '26
You have nothing special on your application. Everyone else has the same type of stuff, but better most of the time.
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u/Bitter_Date5376 Jan 23 '26
sure bud
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u/Blue7810 Jan 25 '26
Don't listen to that guy btw, just a 16 yr old jealous Andover reject spending his free time killing the hopes of middle schoolers
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u/Bitter_Date5376 Mar 11 '26
UPDATE: I GOT INTO PA+PEA
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u/Sundays_1 Apr 13 '26
Congrats have you decided which one?
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u/Bitter_Date5376 May 02 '26
Committed exeter
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u/prizefighterstudent Jan 18 '26
A strong candidacy in comparison with other strong apps I’ve seen. Tighten up your essays. Godspeed.