<p>My wife threatened to send our D to boarding school this October, and instead of pleading not to go, she asked “which one". Now we are stuck, but it’s a great place to be stuck. She goes to a good public school and is in honors everything and maintains good grades. She has gone away to summer camp for at least a month, sometimes as much as seven weeks, for the past five years. She is very social and her group of friends is the “United Nations.” She has been to academically challenging camps for the last two summers and has come home excited and appreciative of a culture where "everyone is smart and it’s so great.” So for us boarding school means an environment where the exceptional is ordinary and expected. This is an opportunity to provide a door that she can open and see infinite possibilities. We don’t think too much about college yet because we believe these schools will cultivate her love of learning and that will make anything possible. The most important thing is that she is excited about this, it’s what she wants, and we want her to be in an environment where she can be comfortable with her abilities. While touring and interviewing we have seen great communities where she could be very happy.</p>