Hotchkiss Info

TheGrammarFairy
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:19:49 +0000

I actually ended up going to Hotchkiss partly because it was the only place where I was accepted (5 waitlists and rejected by Exeter :P), but about a week into my first semester I realized that I probably wouldn’t have gone somewhere else even if I had been accepted everywhere I had applied.

Hotchkiss’s academic and athletic flexibility really attracted me to the school when I was first applying. I’m a competitive equestrian at the highest under-18 levels of the sport, and would die inside without my horses, but I didn’t want to go to an equestrian school because the academics at many of these schools simply didn’t attract me. I’ve been able to arrange to ride off campus so I can continue to show on the A-circuit, and am so happy that the school has been willing to work with me on this. In academics, the course selection is really excellent. Graduation requirements are loose enough to allow you to take personal responsibility for furthering your education in core disciplines AND pursue electives in unfamiliar and favorite subject areas alike. For example, I definitely want to take neuroanatomy and forensic science, but coming in to school I was never really a “science person.”

Away from what we hear most about on CC, I’d like to touch on integration and dorms. I will admit that the Prep class self-segregated into two large groups at the beginning of the year with a few “floaters” (including myself) that were good friends with most everyone. Now, we’re getting our act together and now there is one group where most everyone is friends or at least friendly. This may seem like a clich