<p>St. Anns, as mentioned before, is a tough one… it comes off as a huge party school, but then you get the acceptances and middle of the road students go places like Yale, Princeton, and extremely competitive LAC colleges… it’s weird, makes you wonder what’s in the water…</p>
<p>I swear, this thread shalt never die. :D</p>
<p>uh-oh… did i accidentally dig up a really old one?</p>
<p>Sorry about that!</p>
<p>has anyone heard about marymount?
all the girls in my school are kinda obessed with it…so just wondering</p>
<p>Montreal.</p>
<p>Boys: Selwyn House (English), College Jean-de-Brebeuf</p>
<p>Girls: The Study (English)</p>
<p>Pittsburgh - Shadyside Academy, Winchester-Thurston School, Sewickley Academy, The Ellis School (girls). </p>
<p>Chicago - Lake Forest Academy, Latin School of Chicago, Morgan Park Academy, University of Chicago Lab Schools, St. Ignatius College Prep (Jesuit). There is also IMSA (Illinois Math and Science Academy), but that is a public, state-funded boarding school only for Illinois residents).</p>
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<p>In Northern NJ, does anyone have any thoughts on the Montclair Kimberly Academy or Dwight Englewood?
My d is applying to both. She is seeking an academically challenging environment where the other students are serious about school. She is currently a freshman at our public HS and we are concerned that it is not the right place for her.</p>
<p>Dwight-Englewood is better known, I think.</p>
<p>Houston- St. John’s (It’s where Rushmore was filmed haha)</p>
<p>Not to hijack this thread, but as someone who went to a private elementary school in NYC, I’m curious about the current rankings. For you NYC kids, how would you rate Allen-Stevenson, Buckley, St. Bernards, St. Davids, etc.? Back in my day (a couple of years before the invention of the wheel) literally every single person in my 8th grade class went on to boarding school, with about 1/2 ending up at either Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, Choate, St. Paul’s or Hotchkiss.</p>
<p>Allen-Stevenson’s not that great (from what I’ve heard), Buckley’s supposedto be good, St. Bernard’s is pretty good, I’ve never heard of St. David’s…</p>
<p>to D.C. I would add St. John’s College High School</p>
<p>Oh jaw I don’t really agree but why do you think that, any impressive facts?</p>
<p>no i just said that because I go there lol</p>
<p>I have a son in kindegarten at St. Bernard’s. It is a very rigorous school with a tremendous emphasis on language skills (written and spoken.) We looked, of course, at all the other boys’ schools, but this seemed the best fit for our son. Number two on our list was Collegiate. I believe more than 50% of the boys from St. B’s now stay on in NYC for HS, but obviously it is hard to get in to top schools with all the boys from every elementary school applying for the same spots. St. B typically sends a large number of boys to Trinity, Riverdale, and Horace Mann.</p>
<p>My daughter has just started at Parish Episcopal in Dallas. Is it strong through high school or should I move her to Hockaday/ESD/Greenhill in 5th or 9th grade? I went to Cornell and want her to have the opportunity to go to an Ivy should she so desire.</p>
<p>Boston area: Commonwealth, Winsor, St. John’s Prep(Danvers), Browne and Nichols, Noble and Greenough, Roxbury Latin, St. Sebastian’s, Belmont Hill, and Milton Academy.</p>
<p>I’ve seen some done for SF, but I’ll do my own list. </p>
<p>SF: University High School, Lick Wilmerding High School, The Urban School, The French-American School, Convent of The Sacred Heart (girls), Stuart Hall (boys). </p>
<p>Public: Lowell High School </p>
<p>SF Peninsula: Crystal Springs Uplands School, The Menlo School, Castilleja School (girls), Woodside Priory School </p>
<p>Public: Gunn High School (Palo Alto District), Palo Alto High School (Paly), Mills High School (San Mateo District)</p>
<p>East Bay: Athenian School (also boarding)</p>
<p>Marin County: Marin Academy, Marin Country Day</p>
<p>Dalton and Riverdale Country Day School</p>
<p>Boston University Academy in (doh) the Boston area. Being quite new, rather small and not a sports school , it tends to be less well known that it should be. 53% of the senior class (the one that just graduated) were National Merit Commended students. Not sure what the average SATs are, but they are quite good. Students start taking university classes junior year (or earlier) and most will have close to a full year of university credit by graduation.</p>