Advice for 2013-2014

GMTplus7
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:35:16 +0000

“technically can’t every school give me what I want that Andover has?”

It is true that Andover has many resources that other schools cannot offer. But many other schools probably can offer you the resources you actually need.

Case in point: there was a poster who urged someone to pick school-X over school-Y, because school-X offers 16 foreign languages and school-Y offers only 15. My answer to that is *“so, what?” * Does it really matter that school-X offers Tagalog if you have no intention of studying that language?

Another great resource that Andover and other top BS possess is a large population of high academic achiever students. But just because all the kids there had the great CV to get in, they don’t assume they all fully apply themselves there. My S and his academic advisor report to me that not all the kids in his BS are studying hard.

The point I am trying to make is that any opportunity is what YOU make of it. Don’t get yourself down thinking that attending school-X is the only path to happiness. You can attend a less famous school, work your butt off, also have a good time and still realize your dreams.