Looking for Advice on Boarding School Selections

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<p>That is a fabulous list! Here are some quick ideas. These schools may not fulfill all her requirements, though, but worth checking out. I think all the schools mentioned on cc will be full of enthusiastic eager students. No required team sports is much harder to find in a BS (speaking from experience) so I would always check that out first before you explore all the wonderful things a particular school offers.</p>

<p>Millbrook has a zoo.</p>

<p>Proctor Academy has Mountain Classroom and Ocean Classroom. A small group of students goes off for a term either to a mountain location or on a schooner that cruises to the Caribbean. They complete a full term’s worth of classwork.</p>

<p>Either Exeter or Andover has a super observatory (or was it St. Paul’s—sorry). Putney has a cool observatory that students helped build as part of Project Week.</p>

<p>I don’t think many schools can beat Concord or Putney for art courses—you’ll have to check if they have exactly what she is looking for. I am not quite sure what you mean by digital art (I’m guessing photography, film, animation?) but that’s for her to look at the courses and see if it’s what she wants. I see Concord offers Intro to Game Programming and Digital Graphic Design in their Computer Science dept. They do require one term of a team “experience.” I am sure they offer club level for students not into team sports. Is there some sport D might be willing to do for one season in exchange for a school that offers everything else she wants, in spades? Golf? sailing? ultimate frisbee? tennis?</p>

<p>NMH has an extensive outdoor program as a PE activity but there might be a requirement for some very minimal team sport at least once before graduating.</p>

<p>NMH, Putney, and a few others have on-campus working farms.</p>

<p>Thacher, Colorado Rocky Mountain School, and Proctor have extensive outdoor excursions/programs.</p>

<p>I assume you have perused this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1336246-list-exceptional-unique-offerings-some-bs-5.html#post14375733[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1336246-list-exceptional-unique-offerings-some-bs-5.html#post14375733&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And a final note of caution, that another parent wisely recommended: is the breadth of offerings at a school enough to accommodate a possible radical change of interests?</p>