Governors and Brooks

PelicanDad
Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:21:30 +0000

I think your admit stat uses applicants versus spaces, but they will overadmit knowing their yield won’t be 100%. Doesn’t mean Brooks isn’t very competitive–especially for the day student slots since it’s highly regarded there in Mass–but I think their admit rate is more about 25%, roughly.

We liked the internship programs Brooks offers, the off campus study opportunities, and the size/feel of the community. The facilities are all first rate. In the end though it felt a little more “structure heavy” (for a boarder, anyway) than the other options we were pursuing, so we did not attend the revisit. I just recently met a couple of Brooks teachers with a group of upperclass students and they were an impressive group…one teacher did note that the school is heavily focused on “outcomes”–i.e., impressive college admits, scholarships, awards, etc. etc., so you can use that however you wish.

I have a friend whose nephew is a recent GA grad, think it was a very positive experience for him and his family (also a day family), but the school wasn’t on our list so I don’t have any real personal insights to share there.

Still, overall from what I’ve seen of both schools as described here, and witnessed on site at Brooks last year, think you have the problem of having a choice between two GOOD options!