<p>uhm hi 
i wanted to be the 200th poster :D</p>
<p>“What about the Westminster School in Simsbury CT
where do they fit with all of the top prep schools”</p>
<p>Yup, they dont</p>
<p>Skimming through this thread, I noticed writing re:hardest to get into. Of the elite schools, Andover and Exeter or any elite accepting day students should have the lowest acceptance %, simply because yields on day students are quite high.</p>
<p>Maimonides is a Jewish school in Brookline, MA, ranked much higher on that list than Ramaz. I don’t know much about the school itself or placement, but I’ve coached their lower school children in town baseball leagues and they’re wonderful kids.</p>
<p>You know what I haven’t had in a long time?</p>
<p>An Egg McMuffin.</p>
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<p>I don’t know why Maimonidies was so high up the list. If you look at their placement, it simply doesn’t make sense. It’s not a famous school, either. If they were so good, they’d be a lot more prestigious than Ramaz and they’re not. That’s not even arguable. Not to say that it’s a bad school, but if you compare the two, you’ll see that Ramaz is a lot more rigorous and is much better at placing people in good schools, especially UPenn and Columbia/Barnard. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.maimonides.org/upper/collegeMatriculation.php[/url]”>http://www.maimonides.org/upper/collegeMatriculation.php</a>
In five years, they got 2 kids into Yale. Ramaz gets at least 2 kids into Yale a year.</p>
<p>It’s not a bad school, but to those of you interested in Jewish schools, you should know that Ramaz is the best one (despite it’s rank) and SAR probably comes next. They just graduated their first senior class last year and they did wonderfully.</p>
<p>yeah ive actually been hearing a lot more about ramaz recently. princeton seems to get many kids from there as well.</p>
<p>Hey, I wanted to bring this post back from the dead. Anyone care to comment on this thread?</p>
<p>this is one of my favorite threads and i’s love to see it activated! i have more kids coming up through elementary school and i’m interested in people’s opinions about the various schools…</p>
<p>if you live in new york city, go to hunter or stuy in two years if you can’t get in. not interested in the city? townsend harris high school in queens is your next best bet. if you have money, pick a private school. i guess that’s all i can say.</p>
<p>how about in maryland?</p>
<p>Prepparent</p>
<p>Do you have a list of Top 100 Boarding Schools in U.S. for the year of
2006 & 2007?
I searched almost everywhere in the Internet, but couldn’t get the information which I was looking for.</p>
<p>I got one that I had to pay for and its sort of stupid in all it really is is a spreadsheet program that somebody plugs in Ivy’s plus MIT and Stanford- to be really useful it should include admissions to the top 50 colleges as its not really fair to gauge it all by Ivy’s when schools like John’s Hopkins, Duke, UC Berkley, U of Va., Chapel Hill and on and on etc. all are top notch and Ivy does not tell it all -but for what its worth you can get it for about 25 bucks…</p>
<p>I can give you their top 20 but its been pretty well beaten like a dead horse here…
For free their is a guy who plugged in many items for multifactorial analysis and he came up with Andover 1 and Middlesex 2 because of the depth of courses Middlesex had over say Groton, Milton etc. its all very poor way to choose really–the only way is to dig in deep to resources here…visits etc. that is the only thing perhaps I can see a really good ed consutant would be worth paying for- finding a great match…
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<p>its prepreview.com
as I said I do not highly recommend it unless you do not mind tossing
green backs in the wind…
Boston magazine article give similar info in different order…</p>
<p>waitlistman:
do u have that boston globe list???
if u do, id really appreciate it if u could show me where to find it</p>
<p>Just read pretty much all 15 pages in this thread (yikes!) and this post stuck out as being really good and worth re-posting.
In addition, there is no actual overall “ranking” of prep schools that has some forumla that takes everything into consideration. So like SPSDad said, it depends on what you are looking for. I had a job interview at a mid-west prep school last fall and they claimed to be the “Number 1 Ranked Private School in the Country.” Ok…I went home to look that up and of course couldn’t find any such rankings. In fact, they don’t appear on any of the lists below… They compare themselves to Exeter and Andover (not SPS and DA mostly because of size I believe). In any case, as I am researching schools I am coming to the conclusion that fit is what makes a school “top ranked” and that’s different for different kids.<br>
Additionally, one of my questions was how do you know what a good fit is? From what people have told us and experiences I have read about (Olivia for one - how she *felt *at Choate vs. DA and Andover) - you just kind of know. We did a visit at Loomis - well not a formal visit, we went to a lacrosse game and walked around the campus. We were not impressed with the kids there. Just a first impression, but it will likely take it off of our interview schools. So, hopefully when we do our visits, and we can do a lot being in a pretty central location to our choices, the “fit” will come.</p>
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<p>Do you mean those with the “best” reputations? Depends on your criteria:</p>
<p>Highest % of Ivy/MIT/Stanford- in order:
SPS, Milton, Groton, Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, Middlesex, Lawrenceville, Choate</p>
<p>Lowest Acceptance Rates- in order:
Deerfield, SPS, Andover, Hotchkiss, Milton, Exeter, Peddie, Groton, Choate, Lawrenceville</p>
<p>Most “Popular” (highest “yield” - highest percentage of accepted matriculating)- in order:
Andover, Lawrenceville, Exeter, SPS, Choate, Milton, Groton, Taft, Deerfield, Hotchkiss</p>
<p>Endowment/Student- in order:
SPS, Groton, Exeter, St Andrews (DE), Andover, Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Woodbury Forest, Peddie, St Mark’s, Lawrenceville</p>
<p>Highest SAT- in order:
SPS, Exeter, Deerfield, Andover, Hotchkiss, Groton, Milton, Lawrenceville, Middlesex, Choate</p>
<p>So SPS will get you into Harvard, Deerfield is elite because it’s the toughest to get into, Andover is the flavor of the month, Groton has the cash so you’ll be pampered, and Exeter has the brains. Right? Come on - these schools all have great college placement offices, they are all selective, they all have huge endowments and they all have bright students.</p>
<p>Pompous “Prestige” Lists:
“Big 4” or “AESD” - Andover, Exeter, SPS, Deerfield</p>
<p>“Prestige 7” - 4 above plus Hotchkiss, Choate & Lawrenceville</p>
<p>Ten Schools - 7 above plus Hill, Loomis & Taft</p>
<p>“Aldrich 15” - Prestige 7 + Groton, Middlesex, Milton, Taft, St George’s, Kent, St Mark’s, Brooks</p>
<p>“Select 16” - Prestige 7 + Groton, Middlesex, Taft, St George’s, Kent, St Mark’s, Episcopal, Woodbury Forest, Hill</p>
<p>If I counted right, there are 20 great schools on these lists. They range in size from 300 to 1,100 students. They range from 50% boarding to 100% boarding. Acceptance rates from 16%-50%. SSAT’s average 66th percentile to over 90. Some have strict dress codes, some have Saturday classes, some have dorms for each grade others mix the classes. In other words, these schools are all recognized as top-notch schools but they are very different. </p>
<p>Just to compare two with similar acceptance rates and placement records: Andover has twice as many students as St Paul’s. Roughly 30% of Andover’s students are day students - SPS is all boarding. As a result, Andover feels much more like a small college. If you really like Andover, you’d probably like Choate more than SPS. If you like SPS the best, you are probably better off applying to Deerfield or Hotchkiss than Andover (smaller schools with a higher % of boarders). But to split hairs, take Hotchkiss and Deerfield - both are remote, rural schools with roughly 600 students. Both have stellar reputations. You would think they would be very similar but they definately have a different feel from one another.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that it all comes down to “fit” - a cliche, but it’s the truth. It’s more important to spend 3 or 4 years at a school that fits - one where you will be happy - than to pick the school based on acceptance rates or ivy placement or which is the flavor of the month. Visit the schools, talk to the kids and teachers, look at the facilities, see the dorms, taste the food…</p>
<p>What are you interested in? If you have your heart set on swimming competitively, you should mark SPS off the list - even though the school has one of the best pools in New England, they don’t have a swim team. You should also see how your times compare with times set by swimmers at the schools you are interested in - can you make the team at Andover or Exeter?</p>
<p>Get the brochures from 10 or 15 schools, look at the websites, think about what you really want and compare your wish list to what each school offers. Then cut the list in half (mix of “reach” schools, “match” schools and a “safety”) and fill out the applications. Keep an open mind - you won’t know your “dream school” until you tour the campus. *</p>
<p>Waitlistman</p>
<p>Can you give me the list of Americas Top 50 Ranked Boarding Schools you have from prepreview.com for either year 2006 or 2007?</p>
<p>I need the newest information on this.</p>
<p>shiny, I don’t think I have one for those years, however they have not changed much. Somewhere I updated the list myself through info from school view books and websites. This list is on one of these threads.</p>
<p>*Can you give me the list of Americas Top 50 Ranked Boarding Schools you have from prepreview.com for either year 2006 or 2007?</p>
<p>I need the newest information on this.*</p>
<p>I think the rankings I quoted in my post above are current. There are no “overall” rankings, it depends on what you are looking for and the above posts pretty much details almost any catagory that is important to you.</p>
<p>PrepReview has rankings but it costs like $40 or something to buy it.</p>