Thacher, Peddie, or Mercersburg

This is perhaps the silliest of questions, but does the amount of post M10 outreach (or lack thereof) indicate how interested a particular school is in your child? We do realize that the very fact our kid was admitted is and ought to be statement enough.

But I couldn’t help but notice the wide difference in outreach. For instance, my child’s AO at both Mercersburg and Peddie reached out to him personally with an email and phone call. We also received separate mailings with letters from the heads of school, more letters and/or phone calls from heads of admission in both cases and parent phone calls, emails that sort of thing.

Thacher sent my son a cool (and thematically very fitting) Sierra Cup, but there has been zero outreach of any kind beyond the acceptance packet.

Totally get that not all schools are “high touch” so we’re cool with that, but just wondered…