nhfootballer

eliot spitser went to princeton and harvard.

president bush went to andover, yale and harvard for business.

good educations gone to waste.

BrooklynGuy

NHFootballer: Excellent Point. As a Yale graduate, I must agree.

beanaparker

WYVERN-
Lawrenceville is an outstanding school. However I've heard from multiple advisors, teachers, and even graduates that the school is overated. Apparently they care little about the students, and care more about the reputation of their school. They dont cater to their students like other schools...and just do what they have to do in order to get donations. I don't like that a lot of the teachers live off campus, and they are not always there to help you. Also when I went for my interview, the admissions office was very unfriendly and unwelcoming. The students I saw seemed very full of themselves too... and I thought the faculty there was very stuck up.

At another school I visited, Western Reserve Academy, everyone was so friendly and welcoming. They treated me like a guest in their home! The faculty were proud of their school, but not stuck-up or anything. Remember, we're only going to high school! I want my high school years to be fun, and spent in a warm and inviting community.

P.S. I got the same kind of snobbish feeling from St. Paul's School...dont know much about Deerfield or Groton though

nhfootballer

here are some other schools to consider: governors, pomfret, proctor, tilton and holderness. they are all close to me in nh and i only applied to one of them but i read the materials for each. good sports at each.

erkybk

another school to consider: Saint Mark's. It is a preety good school and has been a raval with groton for lomger than 100 years.

fun is fun

Who is Eliot Spitser?

keylyme

Yeah, right....

nhfootballer

sorry it is eliot spitzer. i spelled it wrong. here is who he is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/nyregion/11fall.html

my dad is from new york so we talked about this all week and it was on the news too.

fun is fun

also known as Client No. 9., attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale. NY.

liv&learn

Beanaparker, your experience at Lawrenceville was very similar to what we experienced. And while I don't mean to insult anyone, in my opinion and based on our experience, I came away from there thinking that Lawrenceville was by far, the snobbiest of ALL of the schools we visited throughout the northeast and New England. Things like this might not matter to some people, (and more power to them), but it certainly mattered to us. I would never want any of my kids in that kind of an environment. Of course this was just our experience and as I've said before on here, very often you don't remember what people say to you, but you always remember how they make you feel. And how people make you feel on a day to day basis can affect too many aspects of your life.

Fit is everything and based on what we saw, our kids didn't even want to apply. Deerfield, Choate, Andover, Peddie, St. Paul's, Mercersburg, etc. were far more welcoming.

I'm not saying it's not a great school for some, I'm just saying like any other school, it's not for all. Go with your gut. Four years is a long time to be in a place that might not be for you. Wherever you go, it's really best if you can be happy. Revisit days can usually confirm where you think you'll feel best.

ELW

icy9ff8 said:

"...I recently ranked about 20 elite boarding schools and 5 key day schools on college placement success as determined by actual matriculations over the past 5 years. ... My rating system evaluated one hundred (100%) percent of all U.S. college matriculations. The results showed some surprises. To the OP: St. George's has one of the best college placement offices in the country. St. Paul's, Andover, Deerfield and Groton were in a class above the others with respect to college matriculation success. ... "


My reply:

Icy9ff8, your research approach sounds very interesting. You seem to take a more complete view of matriculation metrics -- to include casting light on the "bottom" (roughly) 80% of a school's graduating class. Most published studies effectively focus on the top (roughly) 20%.

Tried to PM/e-mail you to no avail. Please PM me if you're around. Thanks!!

Princess'Dad

icy,
Where do Juliard and Eastman School of Music and Wellesley fit on your matriculation metrics. Or if you play women's basketball, U of Tenn? Or Ohio State or Georgia or USC if you play football? Or Williams, Amherst or Swarthmore for liberal arts?

prettyckitty

Ohio State should not be known for football. They should be known for fencing! Dammit, i'm right.
Everyone demand that fencing (at least sabre and foil) be broadcast on TV for the Olympics.

ELW

Well, as a long time Buckeye fan, I can say that fencing is something we do primarily to keep the cows in.

Kidding aside, I'd much rather see fencing on TV than Olympic "sports" like ping pong, badminton, archery, shooting or curling. What next, Olympic rock-paper-scissors?

prettyckitty

You have no idea how many times I've heard that joke.
um, I don't think ping pong is an Olympic sport. If it is, I'm with you, though.