<p>IMO my son had the best room on campus … 2nd floor, on the quad, corner room with mountain views from both sides. </p>
<p>He didn’t have to interact much with the freshmen – but he was a hero to them – hs all american lax player committed to the reigning ivy lax champion and taking AP courses. </p>
<p>I agree it’s not the only way to do this … but it worked out just fine. I think there were more senior-acting-out-behaviorial issues in the senior only dorms.</p>
<p>I will go out on a limb here and point out a difficult aspect of integrating PG athletes with a four year high school population. I know that this will make my comment a target,but awareness and discussion is warrented for parents unfamiliar with this consideration. Most PGs that I have known or been advised of were male athletes-typically football or hockey players and most were outstanding athletes and big man on campus at their prior public high school. An 18 or 19 year old physically mature athlete spending 9 months at a boarding school integrates into the school population in a manner that can be very disruptive to the four year student body developing from innocence into young adulthood. Relationships that were gently developing over 3 or 4 years can be quickly shattered, leaving both male and female students hurt. Most PGs are selected in a different manner and enter boarding schools with a different agenda than the four year students,this often is quite disruptive to the culture of the school. Enough said on my part-now feel free to fire away as I am interested in others experiences and opinions.</p>
<p>It takes a good coach and sensitive administration. It takes careful admissions to be sure that students are admitted who will benefit the school in more ways than the W column. </p>
<p>What percentage of graduates of a specific boarding school were 4 year students anyway? That may be the plan and the goal – but it doesn’t always work that way.</p>
<p>Wow, you say I could be a threat to younger students? I don’t consider myself to be like that and I have never thought of it like that
Do schools really think like that?
Our boarding schools here in my country have students from grades 5-13 living together and never experienced problems and parents don’t mind it </p>
<p>Well, I guess I’ll consider spending a year at an American college because I don’t want to stay four years, it’s too expensive and it would take me longer to complete my education in the US than in my home country, but I would like the dorm life and liberal arts curriculum, we don’t have that</p>
<p>Cassiopeia – That was one person’s point-of-view. You might want to post on one of the college boards to find out more about programs for you. If you cannot stay the full year, many colleges have school over the summer. I am glad you enjoyed your time in the US, and I hope you can come again!</p>
<p>Garrity, I believe barely 10% of the graduates at commencement last year were actually 4-year students at the school. The PGs were part of the senior class (they comprised less than 10%). Some PGs received real diplomas and some received certificates, depending on what academic credits they had completed prior to coming to BS. The PGs seemed to have no problem blending in with the juniors and seniors. While our s would agree that it would be more beneficial to spend at least 2 years at the school, he’s glad he had the chance to be there for his PG year. (The competition to get in as a PG is in some ways more difficult because the schools really limit the number of PGs they accept and there are many applications from which to choose.)</p>
<p>A female PG is not common. At the PG accepting prep boarding schools with which I am familiar, the typical graduating class would be comprised of at least 85%- 90% of three year and four year students.</p>
<p>The only group in the graduating class that was singled out were the 4-year students who had a group picture taken together, so I’m not sure how many students were 3-year students. </p>
<p>There were definitely more 2-year students than the combined total of 4-year and PG students, but you’re probably right that the 3-year student group is larger.</p>
<p>the senior class this year comprises of approximately 90 4 year seniors, 60 3 year seniors, 17 2 year seniors and 13 new year senior and PG combined</p>
<p>Thanks for posting that info. I didn’t realize that Hotchkiss took “new year seniors”. When our s did his school search, many schools only took incoming seniors as repeat juniors or PGs.</p>
<p>the definition of new seniors is those who actually go for the diploma, aka fulfill all the requirement to graduate at hotchkiss… most of them are repeats tho</p>
<p>Most of the time I thought repeat seniors were usually PGs and new seniors are ones who completed only their junior year at another school before matriculating as a senior to BS. </p>
<p>All of the schools we checked who accepted PGs offered the diploma (only if the full BS requirements were fulfilled) or a certificate of completion of a PG year if the student did not bring in sufficient credits to meet the diploma requirements through courses in their PG year.</p>
<p>(I would guess for a lot of PGs, it probably isn’t important to get a diploma from a BS if they already have one from their previous high school.)</p>
<p>i think we very rarely take kids who completed junior year and come just for senior year…although one of my floormate is one of them but he has 2350 SATs…</p>
<p>My son went to Bridgton Academy. He went there to improve grades. We felt a clean break from home would have more impact than community college. It was a huge financial sacrifice for us but it was worth every penny. </p>
<p>At Bridgton he was challenged, focused (there’s a reason it’s isolated and away from cities) learned to work hard, earned A’s in college courses and chose a perfect college for himself that happened to be Div. 3. </p>
<p>College sports and its sacrificies became less attractive to him as he realized he was bright and could have fun being a student. He and many of his Bridgton friends did continue to do sports in college but at a less intensive level.</p>