Why do you send your kids to boarding school?

TurnerT
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:25:15 +0000

Parents that believe boarding schools give an advantage over good public schools think that way to justify the cost. We have several friends and our kids have dozens of friends that went to NJ boarding schools and there doesn’t appear to be any difference where they go to college. The idea that a boarding school kid can have a 1 point lower GPA on a 4 point scale and still get in the same school is ridiculous. My older son’s all boys Catholic school has already had 3 Princeton acceptances, 1 Penn, 1 Cornell and 1 Chapel Hill.

The boarding school differential is a very well nourished myth.