<p>cool, do you play any other saxes bari. or tenor? Do you do jazz or classical?</p>
<p>I mainly play jazz and other music the whole band plays. I only play the alto sax.</p>
<p>my dad plays tenor. You should learn some other sax (bari, or tenor) because not many people play them. It would be an interesting hook.</p>
<p>I was asked by my band director if I wanted to switch to tenor… but I didn’t want to. I don’t like it…</p>
<p>I don’t think it would be a hook…</p>
<p>Panflutes are wayyy more interesting than tenor saxes lol.</p>
<p>people have been telling me that people at hotchkiss are really snobby. sorry, it’s just what i heard. don’t come insulting me, just a comment i heard, and decided to post it for people like claudia, who seems to be quite interested in the school. i suppose “snobby” can be from certain points of view, though.</p>
<p>Claudia (and anybody else),</p>
<p>Don’t put too much stock in 2nd hand hearsay. I’m not defending Hotchkiss per se, but I think if you ask enough kids, you will find the same thing said about just about any of the top prep schools or for that matter just about any school.</p>
<p>Snobbery or being snobby is being so full of yourself that you disregard the feelings of others in your speech or acts. Lots of people are full of themselves from all walks of life. It is unfortunately a fairly common trait but is fixable with a little humility. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, it a 1 or 2 hour interview, one on one, it is difficult to discern those who are self-confident and respect others feelings from those who think highly of themselves and to heck with others. So those types are difficult to screen out of any school.</p>
<p>If you go to a school expecting to find snobs, there will be plenty to be found.</p>
<p>If you go to a school looking to find good, community oriented people, you will find them as well. </p>
<p>IluvA’s - thank you for your concern, but you might want to consider more carefully before engaging in what might be considered gossip. Something to grow by.</p>
<p>There are snobs in every high school, not just boarding schools.</p>
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<p>I totally agree on that.</p>
<p>You don’t like the tenor?? Shame, shame. Why the panflutes, other than their sound? Pretty much the only time I hear people playing them is on street corners.</p>
<p>yes, i know that, which is why i said that it wasn’t me that said that hotchkiss was snobby. now, i love hotchkiss, so it’s not exactly a grudge on my side. it’s just that, every time i hear a discussion about the “snobby” ones among the boarding schools, hotchkiss is among them. it’s not like i just heard one comment; it built up over the year or so. </p>
<p>panflutes…i love panflutes!!</p>
<p>loving bs, though for the first few days i was kinda homesick</p>
<p>ILuvA’s-where do you attend?</p>
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<p>Just the sound, pretty much. That’s the main reason why I play the saxophone.</p>
<p>miss porter’s. im a New Girl there.
packed weekend! we had a tradition yesterday, can’t tell you cuz we have to swear that we wont leak out MPS secrets (shrugs). it’s fun here, though. it’s a very small, close-knit community and the girls here are pretty nice. not as cliquish as my old school, i think.</p>
<p>I’m glad you like your school. :)</p>
<p>What other schools did you apply to?</p>
<p>why tell us that you “had a tradition” if you won’t tell us what it is? It’s not fair!!! (pouts)</p>
<p>miss porter’s, i’m actually thinking of applying there, was it your first choice?</p>
<p>isn’t it all girls?</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s all girls.</p>
<p>why, tommeister? I’m a girl… I didn’t randomly just say i was applying there, I looked into it!</p>
<p>I know that you’re a girl. I just assumed that most people would want to go to coed schools. However, as I always say ,“If you assume you make an a** out of u and me.” lol</p>
<p>sorry, i misunderstood what u meant… anyway single-sex could be good, like you’d only had to focus on schools except school-work, not like how hot you look, if a guy likes you or not etc. I think it would also be more geared to a girl’s style of learning because girls and boys learn differently it could be a plus. </p>
<p>by the way i am applying to co-ed too, i’m not that into single-sex. Guys are a good thing…;)</p>