After meeting with admin officer at EHS..

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<p>I’m in the camp that you choose BS for the experience rather than the college placement. Most of the kids at most of the boarding schools discussed here have fine college admissions results, but you have to define what your son is looking for in college placement. If he values the lottery schools, any student with the chops to gain admission to those schools will most likely do so from wherever they attend high school; at BS, he will need to be in the very tippy top of a very competitive pool that is made up of the best and brightest from around the world. Even if you think your student is one of those, you need to reason carefully. You may be impressed by the number of kids School X sends to ivies, but if that number represents only the top 20% of the class, you should understand how difficult it is to end up in that pool as almost all the incoming kids were the highest achievers in their middle schools but, by definition, a full 50% of those kids end up in the bottom 50% of their BS class. Also understand that many of those slots are already “pre-filled” by recruited athletes, development cases, and those the school has a reason to advocate for. I’m not saying that your child doesn’t have a chance, I’m just pointing out that if chances at a lottery school are what he hopes BS will enhance, it probably won’t. If he’s happy with the top 25 colleges, he will be fine and can enjoy and absorb all the BS experience provides.</p>

<p>You can search the archives for further discussion on this topic, but here are a couple of threads to get you started. This discussion covers a lot of ground:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1422566-does-boarding-school-lower-college-chances-p1.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1422566-does-boarding-school-lower-college-chances-p1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Perhaps the saddest tale of buyer’s remorse is this one:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1606092-kid-wants-to-stay-parents-want-to-bring-her-back-p1.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1606092-kid-wants-to-stay-parents-want-to-bring-her-back-p1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;