<p>Culver Academies would tell you that they are very different than the northeast boarding schools, although I wasn’t convinced of that. I had a conversation about a year ago with thier head of school. He said they truly develop the whole student in terms of (kind of YMCA like) spirt, mind and body. His feeling (and he had come from St. Paul’s) was that the NE schools had gotten away from the “spirit” even if they still have a chapel, etc. I’m not stating that as fact, just what he told me.
Other than that, there is the obvious, Culver, for both genders, has a uniform. Boys is it milirary style. Girls was a plaid skirt, not sure of the top, but kind of Catholic-school like. NMH has little/no dress code.
Culver appeared to me to be very formal and structured and many ways. NMH is much more an informal school. Many of the teachers go by their first names, I doubt that is the case at Culver. This isn’t saying NMH doesn’t have structure, but in a different way I think.
From an academic standpoint, I would imagine they are similar.
Culver is larger than NMH is now.</p>