<p>I think K above gave good advice. After having done all that, I think you need to sit down and look at your opportunities. Is it better to stay at public school if that is an option and reapply to those schools you can see yourself at for next year? or is Middlesex indeed your opportunity and it is a better choice (more academic rigor, etc.) than your local ps option?</p>
<p>It's tricky. It may be that this is your best opportunity, then it will be up to you re what you make of it. You can always reapply from Middlesex and I think as a potential transfer student you may have a leg up on the competition as adcoms will know that you can handle the independence of a boarding school. We've been reassured by many BSs that kids reapply from other BSs all the time and no one takes it personally. Just be prepared that even though you may be a better candidate the second time around, you could still end up just as unlucky and on multiple wait lists.</p>
<p>Although my son did not get into his first choice, it would have been too much pressure to give up several good opportunities and stay put in his public high school (which was in itself a good school in the top 100 ps), at a chance to reapply to his top choice. So he went and has been very happy. Again, it is a tough lesson to learn, but my family is learning that a school is just a school; no school can guarantee placement into your choice college, or heart's desire college, and any school can be a great opportunity...again it's what you bring to the experience.</p>
<p>Finally, we are learning also, not to apply to any school that you would not be happy to attend. Visit as many as you want, but when you hit the send button make sure if accepted, you think you will attend. There's alwasys 'cold feet' but if you know you would not be happy there at the time of the application and would rather stay with what you got, I would cross it off your list.</p>