<p>oh, and as for blair… i probably shouldn’t be speaking about the school as a whole, it’s just been my experience that a lot of the kids from my town and surrounding towns who don’t get into a good prep (day) schools go to blair. i have seen this happen many times. specifically in my town in the past 2 years, i know 3-5 kids who were not doing well in the public school, did not have high standardized test scores, went to blair. very nice kids, just not the brightest</p>
<p>hehe, do you kids play polo?</p>
<p>please, tell me one of you has played polo. that would make my day!</p>
<p>like with real horses and stuff</p>
<p>For the adventurous, on the aspect of college placement, here’s a long thread reporting the top 20 colleges for matriculating students from numerous schools, mostly private :
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=97742[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=97742</a></p>
<p>If you are interested in a specific prep school, use the thread search tool to find its top 20 list and where it sorts out with other schools on feeder rankings. For instance, Exeter, Brewster, & Hun (among others) are reported on this thread page:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=97742&page=12&pp=20&highlight=exeter[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=97742&page=12&pp=20&highlight=exeter</a></p>
<p>There are also linked references to outside reports & articles on the subject of high schools & their college placement distributed through the thread. Its a long read, however.</p>
<p>In my POV, the most prestigious:</p>
<p>Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Academy Andover
St. Paul’s School
Choate Rosemary Hall
Lawrenceville School
Deerfield Academy
Cate School (California)
Stevenson School (California)
The Webb School (California)
Taft School
Groton School
St. George’s School
St. Mark’s School</p>
<p>goldenslumber-- I not a Californian, but from the reading I did on the Top 20 stuff, I’d think that Harvard-Westlake & Harker would be at the top of the California schools, with the ones you mentioned plus Menlo & SFUHS following.</p>
<p>st george is 3rd tier youre nuts. choate and lawrenceville forget it lately.</p>
<p>Papa Chicken, I was under the impression that Harvard-Westlake is a day school, am I wrong? I have a couple of friends who go there. If so I stand corrected. I haven’t heard of Harker but I shouldn’t have forgotten Menlo and SFUHS!</p>
<p>are we talking about boarding and/or day schools? i’m confuzzled.</p>
<p>there are plenty of prep schools (the OP) out there that don’t board</p>
<p>yeah, but i’m feeling the direction of this post tends to go towards boarding schools.</p>
<p>some do, some don’t, depends on which public school ihateyou (btw, where did you get that username? is it how you really feel?)</p>
<p>sAPHIRE: SEEMS YOU’R NUTS ABOUT CHURCH SCHOOLS, NAMELY DELBARTON( HAVE NOT RELEASED 2005 PLACEMENT SO FAR, MUST BE BAD), oAKNOLL AND vILLA. kENT HAS PLACEMENT ON WEBSITE(20% ivy), SO DOES PINGRY(32% iVY)
tOP ivy FEEDERS;</p>
<p>ROXBURY LATIN, ANDOVER, EXTER, CHOATE, WILSON, ST ANN, PINGRY, LAWREBCEVILLE, MENLO, HARKER</p>
<p>No mention has been made of Roxbury Latin in MA which is a small 300 student day school with terrific academic credentials and Ivy placements.</p>
<p>How could is Roxbury with college placement? I couldn’t get it off their website.</p>
<p>PapaChicken posted the stats and you can look it up for BostonLatin</p>
<p>Boston Latin (public magnet), post 340 of Top 20 thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1413536&highlight=boston+latin#post1413536[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1413536&highlight=boston+latin#post1413536</a></p>
<p>This is not Roxbury Latin, can’t get past RL’s password protection to secure 2004 matriculation list. Inside help is needed!</p>
<p>I know I tried that too, but apparently RL is quite secretive.</p>
<p>I know some ppl may be offended by this somehow, but prep schools really destroy kids’ childhoods with their competitiveness and workload. Anyone ever read Hard Times? Anyway, these schools destroy kids’ imaginations, social skills, and priorities. Especially their priorities.</p>
<p>The average elite prep school student is extremely obsessed with prestige, reputation, self-aggrandizement, self-interest, and for some reason, attaining lots of money.</p>
<p>Their entire lives are dictated by a highly structured day, leaving no room to normally develop as a person. In addition, grades are highly over emphasized. (education is important, but obviously there is a point where grades do not reflect learning)</p>
<p>Typical prep school students often times become unable to function normally in society, and when they are able, again usually have all of the wrong priorites.</p>
<p>There is a difference between uniqueness, creativity, personality, and just plain psychologically destroyed to the point of behaving abnormally, as many kids at these schools are. Many do not reject social norms, but simply cannot understand them or comprehend how society works outside of facts and figures.</p>
<p>All in all, I would never send my kids to a prep school and would advise sending your kids to one as well. Sure, your kid may have a bttr chance to get into an Ivy league school (like that’s the most imporant thing in the world). But at what cost?</p>
<p>spiderman- just about everything you said is wrong. Your experience must be severely limited. The days at my son’s prep school are much less structured than the days at a public high school. Yes-you have to go to class at certain times, and there are athletic practices, but you are pretty much responsible for yourself much of the time. The school does not calculate GPA or class rank, so the kids are not particularly competitive with each other. I don’t know of anyone who attends the school simply to increase his or her chances of getting into an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>likewise spiderman, wow, for all you students out there especially, this cynical view is a minority one. I couldn’t disagree with you more spiderman.</p>