<p>Sometimes it’s something huge like no basketball team that turns you away from a school. Maybe it’s because they don’t offer FA. What is something incredibly tiny that made you either reject or not apply to a BS?</p>
<p>I in the end did not apply to Loomis after initially being enthralled by it. I didn’t apply because I saw their Senior wish list which was the upperclassmen writing what they wanted to be (not necessarily future). So. I understand it was supposed to be funny on some levels but I just found it kind of… annoying? Quite a few people wrote in various forms how they want to be a lax bro- a person who plays lacrosse and dresses in lacrosse gear outside of games/practice. I got the weird impression that lacrosse is huge and I’m sure some were joking, but it appears the underlying truth is lacrosse or nothing. It was small. I didn’t finish my application.</p>
<p>Small Turn Off For All The Schools I Applied to:
St. Paul’s: No 3rds Team for any sports. I won’t make a team for nearly 2/3 of the sports I would play at St. Paul’s.
Groton: None.
Milton: 50-50 boarding and all my friends are day students.
Concord: Not very good sports
Loomis: Almost too big for me (walking wise)
Westminster: Seems too new
Govs: Too Sports Oriented</p>
<p>Schools That I had on my list but didnt apply to:</p>
<p>Taft: Too Far/ Rainy Tour/ Very small abc population/ interviewer didnt seem to care/ tour guide was already talking about college/ Buildings weirdly oriented.
Holderness: Too Far/ Small/ Spaced out</p>
<p>Dennis - just out of curiosity - did you mean abc as in “A Better Chance?” students? Why would that number make a difference?</p>
<p>*american born chinese</p>
<p>Exeter: too big
Hotchkiss: dont know much about it
Deerfield: none
(didnt apply to in the end)
Choate: ivanka trump is alumi.</p>
<p>One school is too close to my grandad’s house. I don’t like this particular grandad, although it was useful that I could stay in his house when I had an interview and my parents were on holiday. It wasn’t enough to stop me applying to the school, btu ti probably affected my decisions a bit after results.
Also I find the idea of compulsory religious services really annoying, although both bs’ I applied to have them. However, the school I’m going to use Westminster Abbey (The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster) as their school chapel. It’s the traditional marriage and burial place of monarchs and is supposed to be on the same site that King Arthur pulled the sword from the stone.
Finally, the first bs I mentioned is very spread out, and the dorm I was mostly likely to be in was a good 10 minute walk from the main school. That’s half the benefit of boarding gone!</p>