don't go to boarding school - Page 3

inspiration08 · 11-27-2007, 06:47 PM

also, i think it would help if you told us where you went. just because we're all certainly very curious about that. its not like you arent anyonymous. but thats your prerogative.

NeLLyRaE · 11-27-2007, 06:48 PM

where are you applying inspiration?

inspiration08 · 11-27-2007, 06:51 PM

ibftw: i heard about boarding school because i went to summer camp with an older girl who went to Kent, and loved it.

nellyrae: those are awesome schools. like i said, im a senior, and in my search i ended up at an all girls school called Madeira (maybe you've heard of it?) in DC. since you're from the west, i just wondered if you had looked at/heard of Cate. i really liked it and kind of wanted to go there partly because it is so beautiful, but it wasnt right for me. i know people at exeter and the hill school! good luck with all your schools, i hope you get in!

lbftw · 11-27-2007, 06:52 PM

a lot of people would never articulate that they decided to go to boarding school because they saw it in a movie or whatever, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. even the smartest 13 year old girl in the world is still very impressionable.

there are some normal kids like you'd expect to find at any high school in america at boarding school, but they really are a pretty small minority. and most of the time, they're kind of their own clique and not very popular (with anybody).

lbftw · 11-27-2007, 06:53 PM

telling you where i went would give away too much of my identity. like i said, one of the schools that graduated a us president. there aren't that many of them.

inspiration08 · 11-27-2007, 06:55 PM

who's to say what a "normal american highschooler" is like? i think we pretty much go all across the board.

and so what? so you decide to go to boarding school because that actress you really like played a girl who went to Andover. maybe it ends up being an awesome experience.

McskittlZ10 · 11-27-2007, 06:56 PM

So the school is probably one of the following:
Andover
Exeter
SPS
Deerfield
Choate
Lawrenceville?

I'm not sure which schools graduated a president except Bush from Andover and JFK from Choate so i listed the "elite" schools.

lbftw · 11-27-2007, 06:58 PM

by average i mean kids who would fit in at any high school anywhere in the country. normal kids with normal interests who aren't snobby and stuck up or hyper competitive and anti social.

and i'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. just explaining why some people would be asking their parents to send them.

inspiration08 · 11-27-2007, 07:01 PM

there are very few people in the world who would fit in absolutely everywhere they went. if everyone likes you, you have no personality. people with personality have conflicts. thats life.

also, i think you went to groton.

lbftw · 11-27-2007, 07:03 PM

it's one of the ones you listed.

fun is fun · 11-27-2007, 07:05 PM

I take back the dope comment. You're a bitter dope, and a whiner.

inspiration08 · 11-27-2007, 07:07 PM

well as much fun as this has been, i have work to attend to. so my final word is this: GO TO BOARDING SCHOOL. you will not regret it, it is an amazing experience that is totally worth it. <3peace.

lbftw · 11-27-2007, 07:08 PM

looking through your posts, i see that you're not only a parent but also have a daughter. make sure she stays the hell away from the hockey and lacrosse teams (if she's decent-looking). i'm not trying to be insulting either.

McskittlZ10 · 11-27-2007, 07:11 PM

Oh yes i bet it's Choate. lbftw. If i were you i'd be quiet now because almost everybody on this site likes the idea of BS so i'd pull an Eric Cartman.

"SCREW YOU GUYS. I'M GOING HOME" :0 It works

shelley14 · 11-27-2007, 07:15 PM

Hey, Inspiration, tell us about Maderia. I went there with my daughter a few years ago but in the end she decided not to apply there. Every now and then someone on this board asks about Maderia and the only thing I can tell them is that I think the internship program is great!
P.S. Ignore the troll.