<p>Well, for me, I fell in love with this video contributed to PEA by a student that was graduating. What I do to get a feel of the school and it’s students is go around MySpace and look through and add current students. I ask them questions and advice. Also, it tells me something that is a part of their lives that isn’t shown in the viewbook. Plus, you would not believe what kids these days post on their Myspace’s and their pictures. Just goes to show that even though these kids are the brightest in the country, that they’re still normal teenagers and do normal things.</p>
<p>oh, btw, about the myspace thing, go ahead and ask them questions. but be careful, some kids are rude and will cuss at you, majority of them just ignore your message</p>
<p>Post #14: Didn’t Exeter invent the round table? I thought that is how Exeter’s endowment got so large–from the patent royalties on round tables.</p>
<p>^ Bleh. I’m not a big exeter fan, as you can see. great school, friends go there, but I care very little about it. If they did, props to them. But I still think it’s a little… too advertised LOL</p>
<p>Yeah, frankly I’m a LITTLE sick of hearing about the Harkness… they’re overdoing it - over milking it, if you will. I just think they should tone it down a bit, it’ still an incredible feature, an I can understand their passion for it because it did originate there, but still.</p>
<p>And this is hilarious coming from me, because Exeter is the <strong><em>#1</em></strong> school on my list.</p>
<p>Parlabane, I’m missing something. You want your child to be well rounded, and at the same time think 1000 students is too large? I love Exeter in the essence that I have so many choices of friends, with such great diversity. I thought that I really knew who I was last year, going out of 8th grade, and Exeter in these last 3 months has proved to me that I only was beginning to find out. With all of my new friends I have realized which values of mine I believe, and which ones I was just sheltered into thinking. You won’t just be given more opportunities to be well rounded because other students want them through their diversity, you also just get to fight for what you do believe. It might just be me, but 1000 students I think is perfect. You have enough kids to always have someone new to hang out with, but not too many that would make you feel as though you were in an ocean.</p>
<p>Where are you getting this information that you can’t be well rounded at Exeter either? I honestly would like to know, because if I knew this I wouldn’t be attending. You make Exeter your own. I know some kids who aren’t doing anything, they just come to school, attend classes, and hang out in the Day-Student Lounge. I know other kids who are taking painting, music lessons, in tons of clubs (religious and non), doing ESSO things, getting good grades, and have been on sports teams two terms in a row. It’s up to you, or rather, your child if they want to put in the effort. Exeter has the resources to let you be the most well rounded kid ever. Plus, with our hefty diversity, you will become even more well rounded by knowing others’ cultures. I come from a primarily Caucasian, suburban town, and in the first week of being at Exeter I had already had a two hour discussion with a girl from Saudi Arabia, and made my best friend, who was Indian. You get well rounded.</p>
<p>Harkness isn’t a bunch of kids clueless around the table with a teacher breathing down their neck when they don’t know an answer. They ask leading questions, and we might go in a totally different direction if something strikes our fancy. Not knowing things by the way, is my favorite thing about Harkness, because in the moment where you go “Oooohh” around the table, you feel like the smartest kid alive. It’s really nice when you take part in a class where several kids have those moments.</p>
<p>“Didn’t Exeter invent the round table?”</p>
<p>No, that would be King Arthur.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>lol I was going to say that but I didn’t want to sound like a smart ass.</p>
<p>The campus of both Middlesex and Groton are round. That’s extreme Harkness! </p>
<p>The circle is a pretty powerful symbol.</p>
<p>This is starting to sound like a Dan Brown plot… and he is from EXETER!!!</p>
<p>Ahaha ^^^^</p>
<p>sportin courty,</p>
<p>hmm your saudi arabian friend, is she muslim? how is her parents dealing with that? how is she dealing with boarding school?</p>
<p>No, Islamic, I believe. She is a PG and I know she is enjoying everything so far. A lot of things were new for her due to the completely different cultures. Such as the fact that she has an entirely different wardrobe for home, or how the laws effect everyday life so much. It was cool to be able to talk to her about Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>muslim means you believe in the islamic faith. do you think being muslim is a hook at exeter?</p>
<p>I really think it makes no difference. As long as you are you, Exeter will be happy. Diversity is key, be it someone from a foreign country, with foreign customs, or the a liberal male, who has lived in one place his whole life. Exeter accepts you for you, and that’s what make it great.</p>
<p>The Harkness table is not round…</p>
<p>lol^^^^^^^</p>
<p>I want to know which school is available now for Nigeria people like me</p>
<p>^Umm…any of them that you apply to and can get into? Not really sure what you’re asking. Pretty much all schools are available to everyone to apply, it’s just a matter of whether you get in or not.</p>
<p>Its name … Exeter. It sounds sooo SEXY !</p>
<p>Ahaha… ^^^^ I second that! Hotchkiss is tied though. I think Milton is me least favourite name… it’s just so, displeasing in some way. Exeter has so much power to it. LOL… don’t worry everyone, I am completely sane.</p>