<p>I agree with you frenchvanilla- All-girls is nice, but having the guys there (in co-ed) is nice also (if nice is the right word:))
Well, i have narrowed down my list, and altered it again:
Hotchkiss
Deerfield
Emma Willard OR/ Miss. Porters
Loomis Chaffee
St. Pauls
Possibly:
Groton
Middlesex</p>
<p>Lately i have been re-reading the viewbooks and website, and i realised that these schools offer something thats perfect for me. I feel i could belong and have a really excellent time.
What do you think, i know they all divided up and compare in a certain group, like St. Pauls/Hotchkiss/Deerfield, Emma Willard/Miss. Porters (just because they are all girls) and then Groton/Middlesex and possibly Loomis…Anyway, i just wanted to see what others thought.</p>
<p>At the top boarding schools people are so focused on their studies (I think) that what FV mentioned isn’t as much of a problem.</p>
<p>Tommeister, I don’t think this is true…You were the one who started a topic called “girls” that ended up being about people having sex on Harkness Tables and in walk in freezers, so, I think it may be a problem… I know for me it is 100% distracting if you know a guy who likes you is going to be in your class, or if someone is hitting on you, or staring at you etc. but it may not take your focus off your “academics” (still can’t stop wandering why you started that topic called Girls, if they don’t effect you…)</p>
<p>But actually my point was also that single sex schools are more geared to a girl’s style of learning, because as studies show Girls learn in a very differant way then boys. I personally think a single sex school like miss Porter’s is going to be more geared towards a girls style of learning, that’s why i’m 75% sure I want to apply (and for other reasons…)</p>
<p>FrenchVanilla- I agree with you (thats why Miss. Porters is on my list), also, its just as distracting if you like a guy and he’s in your class (es). I would also guess that guys would feel the same if girls they like are in their classes. Interesting though, is that many girls like the thought of all-girls, but the boys don’t even though there are some great all-boys schools (well, it doesnt seem as if there are many CC guys that like the idea of all boys).</p>
<p>I spoke recently with a parent of a first year student at Emma Willard. She tells me so far they are very pleased. She also mentioned and I verified this with my wife and d who visited Emma over the summer, that emma’s campus is more beautiful in person than pictures. Wow, what a lovely place to spend 4 years. My d is applying to emma, I think it’s high on her list ,along with a million others lollol</p>
<p>As much as there is a “girls style of learning”, that too is a generalization - statistically true that a large number of girls learn things differently than a large number of boys, but not every girl nor every boy learns the same as their peers.</p>
<p>That being said, if a certain single-sex school teaches more to that particular style and you know that you learn better with that style of teaching, it makes that school a better fit to you.</p>
<p>Okay, first, I didn’t write about having sex on the Harkness table. That was just a reply, and one that I didn’t expect at all. Second, it’s not that girls don’t affect me, it’s that they don’t distract me or detract from my learning experience.
Interacting with the opposite sex is an integral part of growing up, and I think that someone who went to a single-sex school would be somewhat deprived. In the business world, you aren’t going to just be working with your sex, you have to be able to work with people that are different than you. If you went to a single-sex school, you might become more easily distracted than if you went to a coed school. That’s my take on it, anyway.</p>
<p>Oh Does that make all the ivy league schools and all others who were single sex for so many years, wrong? Bill Clinton went to a coed school, he seemed to be quite distracted by the opposite sex. I believe for female’s it come down to learning style. Some can handle the coed learning style while others are better served with the different learning style that some all girls schools offer.</p>
<p>wow, Tommeister! u sound mad… I’m sorry, i didn’t mean to offend you. I didn’t mean to be rude but you made me sound like a boy crazy little girl when you said, most people would not be distracted in their learning or whatever. </p>
<p>Also, my brother who is applying to military schools got a DVD from an all boys school and one guy siad he felt that it would be much to be in a single-sex school because girls wouldn’t be a distraction. Ha! See, somebody agrees!</p>
<p>Again, sorry about my comment on your thread on the harkness club.:(</p>
<p>Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you would be distracted by boys, just that some people might be. Wow that sounds pretty lame doesn’t it. Anyway, that is what I meant.
It would be interesting to hear about your brother’s experience applying to, and/or attending military school because I haven’t heard of many people who go there willingly. It seems like, from movies and books, that only kids with behavioral problems go to military schools. Sorry for the stereotype there.</p>
<p>Oh no, Mititary schools are more structured, and strict but they’re not really for problem kids anymore… He wants to be involved in the Air Force or Army when he finishes University and sees Military schools like FUMA as a good option. Mostly, because they will give you an army background and a good education at the same time. I also considered them (because they accept girls too–mostly), but decided it wasn’t a great idea for me for various reasons.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks for the info. Do you think you’re going to go into the military?</p>
<p>Hell No! Never! I’m pretty much a total sissy… Just thought if I could get in easily, with full tution FA, and it offers good education, why not? (I know…i’m so shallow…) </p>
<p>I want to get into music or business later on in life. what about u? You sound like you’d be a scientist or doctor etc.</p>
<p>No! I definitely don’t want to be a doctor, and though I’m good at science, it’s not my passion. I really love writing and world history and stuff like that. I think being a journalist (for a well-known newspaper) would be great, but I don’t know yet… But the military is like the total antithesis of what I am.</p>
<p>lol, see I don’t see why anyone would want to go into military, but my brother is like obsessed with it :). Yeah, I din’t really see you doing it… I picture you as a shy, quiet kid who wear’s glasses (and scores the best in his state on some test). I know i’m probably like 300% wrong but i’ll never know for sure:)</p>
<p>I’m quiet (when I want to be and only because there’s nothing worthwhile to say) not shy, don’t wear glasses, so I would say at least 110% wrong.</p>
<p>:) I don’t think that counts as being quiet… Even I stop talking when I have nothing to say (ussually…if I’m not hyper…:))</p>
<p>Somehow, I doubt that. ^^ But the thing is, there’s nothing worthwhile to say most of the time, so…</p>
<p>“there’s nothing worthwhile to say most of the time, so…”
Note:why does everyone else get it to say quoate when they make a quoate.???</p>
<p>do you reall mean that? You talk about a lot of stuff that’s pretty funny but 100% pointless…</p>
<p>i don’t mean that in a mean way, I hope u get what i mean…</p>