Help! which prep school is best for a brainy kid: Boston

sbarkowski
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:01:07 +0000

I go to Milton and I have two brothers at Roxbury Latin (I’m not THAT familiar with Andover and I have never heard of COmmonwealth) but academically I would say Roxbury Latin is the most rigorous. While I don’t know about their math program specifically, RL is for only the most elite students. Even their middle school students are given hours of homework and their curriculum is very advanced in every subject.

Milton has an award winning English and History department, so those are definitely their strengths. They are, however, equipped to handle advanced math students (obviously-as a boarding school that takes a very high number of students from Asia, they have to adjust to their mathematic education system. i.e-15 years olds already done with AP Calc. But I would guess that ANdover is also equipped to handle that) While Milton is not an “AP” school, they do have honors in math. As a Milton student, I am kind of biased, but Milton is the best school all-around (academic, athletics, ECs, social life etcc).

Good luck with everything!