<p>BS routinely reject many applicants. Now is your turn to say why you rejected a certain BS. Please post why you considered a certain BS not a fit for you? Please include as much detail as possible from your visits/revisits experience.</p>
<p>e.g. Format:</p>
<p>Andover: Too large, Too liberal
Exeter: Too competitive, Too large, Not strong in arts
Deerfield: Middle of nowhere (not city/town), too preppy</p>
<p>Choate: not a cohesive community
Loomis: too high of a Connecticut population
Middlesex: if you are not beautiful, you will likely not fit in</p>
<p>This seems so negative to me! For all 6 of those schools, there are students happily headed there in the fall. Wouldn’t it be more useful to know what was appealing about each school?</p>
<p>I agree with siliconvalleymom. This thread only invites 14 year olds to try to outdo themselves in thinking up negatives about schools they hardly know.</p>
<p>Grinzing - your post makes me giggle b/c it inadvertently comes across as through you think your son is ugly and therefore didn’t fit in (I know that is not what you meant). </p>
<p>I agree with siliconvalleymom & preiwinkle on this one. pulsar, remember that at this time (mid May) most applicants who were accepted are no longer bothering to check CC or post here. The reason they were on this site has been fulfilled.</p>
<p>good point grotonalum</p>
<p>Not from re-visits, but more my impressions of the schools.</p>
<p>PEA: to cold(not temperature wise, but atmospherically), I always say it feels as though death has descended upon the campus and is waiting to pick people off. This by no means makes it a bad school, I’m sure it has its better days, but just not for me.</p>
<p>WMA: Not my type of people.</p>
<p>Milton*: too close a proximity to Boston.</p>
<p>Tabor*:the view book put me off</p>
<p>@Periwinkle and Sillicon Valley Mom: Sorry if this comes off as a bit rude, but can’t you guys stop parenting for two seconds? Like seriously, everything that remotely negative or teenagery (while still in good fun amongst the teenagers) is bad and therefore should be stopped in a most concerned and parent-y way. </p>
<p>While I acknowledge that there are things that are negative and someone’s feelings might get hurt, or their opinion may be influenced- we the teens already recognize these things and have dismissed(well maybe that’s not exactly the right word- more like put it away into our…consideration banks)it. You being concerned and parent-y about it makes no difference. It is just highly irritating.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to start one of those Forum Fights where you all gang up on me with extremely long posts about who knows what, please do not take it as an invitation for such. If you feel the need to reply all you should do is PM me as to not fully hi-jack this thread.
Thank you, RiP96</p>
<p>Sorry for hi-jacking.</p>
<p>Rad-in-Plad96, believe it or not, I am not trying to parent you. I am trying to protect some fine schools from unearned slurs. The internet is forever. While I’m certain Deerfield and Middlesex can take it, some schools are not well known. A flippant comment, posted in the assumption that others will take it as a joke, could really damage a good school. </p>
<p>I’m not concerned about feelings. I am concerned about the future welfare of schools which educate children, employ good people, and feed their families. It’s really sad when a school closes, because its unique culture is lost.</p>
<p>On the one hand the parents on this forum say, oh my child is so mature for BS, s/he made his/her own applications/reservations and come back and post these kind of comments. This needs to stop. On top of it, these are NOT negative comments: What’s wrong with saying I don’t want to go to Andover because it is too big for me? You are the parents which came off a long thread about what is fit and here we are discussing the same what is fit and what is not. It is the wildest thing that I have heard in a long time that a school might close because some comment came up on the internet. Stop babysitting your children and allow them to grow up. Yes, they will make mistakes and learn from it. If you don’t want to post because you don’t like the thread, that is fine. Please don’t hijack it. The thread owner and others need this info and don’t interfere with the process. End of rant and nothing personal, of course.</p>
<p>Thank you pulsar. :)</p>
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<p>Really? Really now? I never said that you were trying to parent me but that you were doing the over-anxious-parent thing which I find EXTREMELY irritating.</p>
<p>Also, we’re not hating on the schools in a way that would extremely effect the dissuasion (?) of potential applicants. We are merely saying why a school is not for us. As pulsar pointed out it is extremely hypocritical for you lot to have a whole, gigantic thread about “fit” and then criticize us for saying why we didn’t “fit” a certain school. A mass exitus from applications would not take place from one opinion on a little read forum that the majority of applicants do not read. Nor would schools such as WMA’s reputation be smeared and trashed as you suggest. A simple opinion on a school will not effect its entire being. While the internet is an open place who is really looking for an opinion to base their entire opinion of a school on.
is: WMA: not my type of people. really going to do something?</p>
<p>All I’m saying is that it would be nice if you could turn off the parent-dar for just one second please.</p>
<p>OH BAWWW RAD, YOU CALLED WMA “not my type of people”, NOW I CAN’T APPLY FOREVER AND EVER AND MY LIFE IS OVER!</p>
<p>jokes jokes :- )</p>
<p>my input:
exeter/andover: too big :(</p>
<p>haha I don’t really mind the size of those schools, I was really putting exeter down this year because I just don’t want to end of like my sister. She’s gotten less annoying though, thankfully. Not lk she had a big head or anything but her ACCENT! HOMG!!! lolz jk but I think fro being a proctor she got a it bossy and a bit too advise-y if you get what I’m sayin’ .</p>
<p>Wait, what school is WMA?</p>
<p>Wilbraham & Monson</p>
<p>Hmm, never heard of it. It looks nice, but just a little small (even though I like MX).</p>
<p>I read some posts like MX is for writing etc. Any one know what is special about their writing program? How is their math program?</p>
<p>PM Izzy Busy Bee about it, she goes there.</p>
<p>WMA looks nice enough and the people are fine, just not MY type of people. Like the kind I’m most comfortable with, they’re kind of like the people around where I live…</p>
<p>Well MX requires all sophomores to take an intensive seminar class in writing. I heard that it is pretty difficult but really helps. I don’t know much about their math program but it doesn’t seem that bad.</p>
<p>RIP, 2010: thank you. :)</p>
<p><em>ahem</em> back to the original purpose of the thread! :D</p>
<p>Groton: too small, and the people seem kind of pretentious</p>