Hi, all. Posting on behalf of my sister who’s starting to think about applying. (I’m applying to colleges and she’s in 8th grade.)
This year, I’ll be graduating from a Boston-area day school that I didn’t really enjoy much because of the excessively leftist environment. It grew tiresome to either have to constantly speak out against stuff that I felt was wrong or else just keep my mouth shut for fear of getting into another futile argument with a peer (or even a teacher). I don’t need to go into details about my experience, but before you say, “It’s good to go to a school where your beliefs will be challenged!”, consider if you’d say the same thing to a non-binary BLM activist attending a conservative Christian school. Some places are just not good fits for people, and it’s perfectly reasonable to want to go to school where you’ll find a decent amount of like-minded peers AND you’ll be able to actually hear from multiple perspectives, not just one ideology being forced down your throat.
Anyway, I wanted to say the above so that this thread can hopefully stay on topic. My sister, like me, is a moderate-conservative thinker. I’m gay and she’s an atheist, so ultra-religious schools are also not great fits for us. Schools that are religious to an extent but not overly so are fine (for example, for college, I’m applying to Boston College and College of the Holy Cross, among others, because they may be religiously-affiliated but they’re not BYU or Biola…) My sister said she wouldn’t mind attending a religiously-affiliated school as long as not everyone there is expected to be of that religion.
Are there any prep schools (day or boarding) in the northeast that might be a good fit for her? Places that are moderate, genuinely welcoming to diverse views, and focused on academics rather than ideology?
Thanks for any recs!