<p>o, what grade are u in?</p>
<p>8th; andover (if good fa) is first choice :)</p>
<p>ooo cool! how far are u in the apps? i havenāt started XP</p>
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<p>you HAVENT started???</p>
<p>i have started but not andovers, most of the apps are basically asking for the same thing anyway</p>
<p>how did u score on ur ssats?</p>
<p>i had friends who went to all the prep schools here is the breakdown on the some of them. peddie- sucks/ minority heavy so the school is dumbed down.
lawrenceville used to be great new head and they take everybody. deerfield little school looks like a fairytale setting but not top tier thats bs. andover exeter st pauls milton groton still great. choate- great place to get high with purple hair. st george- great place to get high and or drunk with collar popped. st albans- everybodies dad is politico great school too. blair- 4th tier for ā ā ā ā ā ā ā pretty campus in NJ or PA.
Hill another school for ā ā ā ā ā ā ā near a nuclear reactor. 4yrs there and you glow in the dark with your diploma. calhoun, dalton, brearly, poly prep all the ny greats nothing beats them. they are great in every way.
all the miss this and that schools have horses and poetry and the guys have frizzy hair and want to go to smith vassar or bendington- that is my careful assessment.</p>
<p>Suze-
Iām not sure why you are so against Miss Porterās School and why you think it is not a top tier school. Miss Porterās is ranked as the number one all-girls school in the nation. I got into Exeter, St.Paulās, Deerfield, Milton, Andover and I felt like all of the schools lacked the substance that Miss Porterās has. My interviewer at Exeter who was a former faculty member of MPS even admitted that Miss Porterās was stronger than Exeter in a number of places. So, you shouldnāt be so quick to judge, because MPS is absolutley a top tier school.</p>
<p>St. Paulās Exeter, Andover, Choate are ++ prestigious.</p>
<p>The Pennington School, in Pennington, NJ is also excellent. Itās also very close to Princeton which is a really nice area of NJ.</p>
<p>Michikoduke,</p>
<p>I was browsing through threads when I came across this one discussing our countryās elite prep schools and I wholeheartedly agree with you regarding the matter. I am currently a high school senior at a public school and this topic of education has recently piqued my interest. (BTW, Iām very interested in that book you mentioned written by the founder of Teach for America and would love to read it.) Education has always been the key to opening the door to the American Dream, and I honestly find it unfortunate that a majority of Americans are missing out on something that would not only better prepare them for college, but for some aspects of life as well. Several teachers at my high school are prep school graduates, including one from Exeter who went on to an Ivy League school. I have a couple of family members who have also attended boarding school. What I can say about them is this - they are unbelievably functional individuals, with the ability to extend themselves into whatever field they desire. Those teachers also are extraordinary people, although I donāt believe a prep education necessarily equates to a good or bad person. Every individual has many dreams and desires, and through the few prep products I have encountered, it seems as if prep school has set them on the best path possible to achieve those dreams.</p>
<p>I live in NJ, and go to a prep (day) school in the suburbsā¦ our brother school, Delbarton is excellent (I may be a bit biased, my father went there)ā¦ itās changed a bit over the years, a lot more elitist now, but nevertheless there are plenty of great boys, great education, great sports, great college placement (big, big feeder to ND)<br>
Would not recommend Pingry to anyone. Absolutely horrendous. Extremely pretentious, not a great environment.<br>
Montclair Kimberly- subpar, nothing to rave about. would go here only if public school in town was bad and got rejected from other prep schools.
Newark Academy- a lot of jewish people, very nouveau richeā¦ extremely pretentious. Okay performing arts department, subpar academics.
Morristown-Beard- great community, not the best academics. nice place to go if you have old money and youāre not that interested in school. very nice people.
Blair- same as MB, except not as wealthy.
Lawrenceville- very nice students, pretty good academics</p>
<p>Top NJ preps are:
Tier I: Pingry, Lawrenceville, Princton Day, Dalbarton(?)( 25-30%)
Tier II: NAcademy, Hun, Peddie,Kent Pl( all girls)15-20%
Tier III: MAK, Morristown beard, BLAIR, oAKNOLL(GIRLS), vILLA(GIRLS) 10%</p>
<p>bEST IVY FEEDER IS PINGRY DOING ABOUT 32% WHICH IS CLOSE TO SOME OF THE TOP PREP SCHOOLS.
fOR GIRLS WILSON SCHOOLS, MA, ST ANN NY.
IVY FEEDERS: ROXBURY LATIN, ANDOVER, EXTER, WILSON, ST. ANN</p>
<p>I disagree with much of this thread. You are showing a real lack of information about the academics of the NJ prep schools. Check out how many Blair kids are getting into top colleges. The academics at Blair are excellent. The average SAt is lowered somewhat due to the number of internationals. The MAPL schools are all very close academically.</p>
<p>sapphire, donāt know what your references are on thisā¦ iām a junior at lawrenceville right now, and i think our academics stand up to anything else in the country. if we have a problem, itās that our students arenāt nice enough, not to say they arenāt nice people, but they could be friendlier to each other.</p>
<p>and Mom, donāt you think all of these elite schools have a large number of internationals. right now my room is between an exchange student from germany and a kid from thailand.</p>
<p>MADEINUSAisnt it true in the last few years they let a bunch of ā ā ā ā ā ā ā into the otherwise smart school lawrenceville because the new head master is screwing up the school. i heard there is lots of complaining about the new trend in making the school well roundedā¦ie smart kids and ā ā ā ā ā ā ā walking hand in hand.</p>
<p>you guys should check out Loomis Chaffee School,it might not be as well known as deerfield or choate, but its academic rigor and athletic competitiveness are on par with those schools. We send out tons of kids to ivy league every year, especially Yale, Penn, Columbia. Every year, there are also people who get recruited by Harvard, Princeton,</p>
<p>me? taking it tommorow actually mrboarding.</p>
<p>as for the fact of naming the most āprestigiousā, it basically goes to personal preferences, so there isnāt much to say about that, though some schools do have better āacademicsā and what not than others.</p>
<p>any prestigiousd prep schools in other countries ? Any in Canada or Mexico or whatever?</p>
<p>I was not referring to the # of kids going to ivy league schools, which I feel is a bit misleading as to the quality of a schoolā¦ I was just making general comments about the kids I have met from the above schools, my experience with the schools, and their overall reputation among the prep school community in NJ. </p>
<p>motofoto- youād be hard pressed to find anyone in NJ (besides those that go to KP) to say kent place is above oak knoll and villa in terms of academics. ivy league placement? maybeā¦ i somewhat doubt that also. NA, too, is very doubtful. what are your sources?</p>