<p>GMT’s experience sounds like a problem with having an alum as interviewer rather than a staff member. I’m sure the school would be horrified to know the interviewer did that.</p>
<p>Maybe the day student/boarding student partying thing is something I got in my head after reading the book about the Milton scandal. It just seems like the more day students, the less time collectively spent in the centrally-controlled (for want of a better word) environment at the school. I know that at some schools we visited it seemed pretty clear that when weekends rolled around the social life was around the home life of the day students, and not around what was happening on campus. But, needless to say even at schools that are 100% boarding, students find a way to get into trouble.</p>
<p>Back on the original topic, St. Paul’s makes a very big deal of their “freedom with responsibility” system and is very interested in students learning to make their own way. So I would say that it’s not a helicopterish school.</p>