How to get my parents let me go to boarding school?

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<p>@learn1260,</p>

<p>Perhaps this article will help your parents to understand the incredible opportunities the top boarding schools can offer:
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/business/26prep.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/business/26prep.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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“we didn’t have kids to have someone else raise them”

I have one S in BS and certainly do NOT think he is being raised by other people. When one counts up the actual days BS kids are away, it is only 7 months out of the year. The breaks are very long because the schools are open during the single-day holidays that day students get off (i.e. Presidents Day, Columbus Day, etc). Between the Thanksgiving to Spring Break period, you will probably spend more time at home than at school.</p>

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If your parents spend a lot of money on boarding school tuition for you now, they may not have enough money left to pay for you to go to college.

Because of the Godzilla-sized endowments some of the BS have, families earning under $75k often attend for free. Even families earning $250k can qualify for some FA. Plus/minus a third of the kids in the top BS are receiving FA.</p>

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There may be local public or private high schools where “it’s cool to be smart and everyone is there to learn”

There is no day school that will have the diversity a top BS will have. Because of the generous FA, there is great socio-economic diversity. Plus the schools attract kids from all over the country and world. The schools attract kids who value smarts; they don’t just attract kids from the same zip code.</p>

<p>The people who dis boarding school have no idea what they really are. It’s probably a good thing, because the top ones are so competitively difficult to get into. Why let the secret out…</p>