<p>I started looking at Milton Academy for about a week now and I
realized that it is an extremely good school with amazing college matriculations
and faculty… The question I want to ask is: why the hell is it not on the tenschools.org list?
Isn’t it better than the Hill or Taft? or Loomis?</p>
<p>okay maybe not taft…</p>
<p>The Ten Schools are schools that collaborate in their admissions outreach efforts. They have common goals and similar makeups.</p>
<p>Milton is qualitatively different from the other schools. The Ten Schools are all high schools, whereas Milton is K-12. Milton has a lower percentage of boarders (50%) than the other schools. Milton is in the ISL, unlike any of the Ten School schools. It’s not a matter of quality, but whether the schools’ admissions goals align closely enough to make collaboration make sense.</p>
<p>And you are right, it is considered by well-informed people to be absolutely first rate.</p>
<p>Do you know GLADCHEMMS? It is an acronym coined by some CC’ers to represent the ten most popular schools. Milton is in it.</p>
<p>Milton is a school that my daughter did not look at and it had nothing to do with quality. It had more to do with high day student population and the K-12 component. There is not a doubt in my mind that she could get a first rate education there. I can think of at least a dozen other schools that she did not tour that are also great schools. One has to draw a line somewhere.</p>
<p>In the Boston area, it’s known primarily as a day school. To get in, you have to pay tuition starting at the very young grades K and 1st. Yep, great matriculation stats. First rate education.</p>
<p>RBGG, the math doesn’t work. [Quick</a> Facts](<a href=“http://www.milton.edu/about/quickfacts.cfm]Quick”>http://www.milton.edu/about/quickfacts.cfm) </p>
<p>Milton lists a K-8 size of 305 students. Thus, the average grade size would be 34. The Upper School, classes I-IV, is 670 students. 670/4 = about 168 per grade. Milton must admit more than 130 new students for the Upper School. If you like Milton, don’t be discouraged by the presence of the K-8 school.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the Math logic, you may be right. I’m sharing more of heresay from families in the area. To get in, better start early. Gets harder to get in as you go up.</p>
<p>I guess, if your child starts in K, you’re all set. However, in general, I’d say that schools which start so early are admitting the family more than the child. As children get older, it gets easier to assess their capacity for learning. It’s easier to differentiate 8th graders than 4 year olds. </p>
<p>In other words, the kid who’s appealing in preschool might not stand a chance, had she waited until 8th grade to apply.</p>
<p>I would agree with above… they also take kids at the middle school and place them elsewhere for high school if they can tell that they won’t last/succeed at Milton. (I have a friend who has been there since 6th grade and her mom told us that some kids starting “disappearing”)</p>
<p>A number of schools do that. If you’re interested in a day school, don’t assume that the only entry points are 7 and 9, for example. Sometimes, spots will open up in other grades too. Of course, it can be challenging to be “the new kid.”</p>
<p>I think the point being made is not that there might not be spots available in higher grades, but that chances are more slim at a day school which has filled up with kids in the earlier grades, and only have a few spots at the higher grades. This is vastly different from a BS who has to fill a whole or most of a 9th grade class. I think the OP was stating that Milton is a good school being overlooked. I think its not so much overlooked but rather the situation is much different between this and other BSs.</p>