@skieurope Is there a way to rename the thread “Silly and not silly reasons you did not apply to a particular boarding school?” Or to start a new thread & merge the two?
Everybody’s ideas are really interesting, but like when you popped in earlier skieurope, most to me aren’t very silly/ridiculous. I think it’s a totally valid reason to choose to not apply if a parent feels school(s) won’t support their family’s interpretation of their denomination of their religion. And it’s a reeeeaaaallly good reason to not apply to a school if you see kids smoking weed on campus, out in the open!!!
@Golfgr8 I’ve heard about those curtains. Did Groton change that? I thought maybe I’d heard they had, but idk. Just curious. And the weed?? Yikes.
@skieurope I was hoping as OP to hear about ridiculous reasons, but I think many will find all of these reasons pretty interesting (if not perhaps silly)!
Maybe silly is too subjective anyway? Like, skieurope & I may find curtains instead of walls in a dorm room a valid reason, but if a potential boarder’s family knows a number of kids who went to that school & did great with that style of dorm, they may themselves feel it’s a “silly” reason. Perhaps “prestige” comes into play too, on evaluating which reasons are deemed ridiculous? If everyone is telling a kid the “only schools” to apply to two Brand X (HADES?) schools, and he or she doesn’t apply for what to most people outside of that bubble would say is a really good reason, maybe to that kid it feels “silly” not to apply?