<p>ok, first of all, don’t go to a prep school if you think it’ll look better for colleges, because it doesn’t. trust me, it’s better to be the top student at an overcrowded public school that it is to be top 50 in a prep school. that really shouldn’t be a concern, all that matters is the education and life experience.</p>
<p>why i chose prep school:
1)smaller class sizes. the hs in my town has about 25-35 kids per class. blech.</p>
<p>2)teachers with degrees. most of the time i spent in middle school, i’d ask a teacher something, they couldn’t answer me. or, they just wouldn’t know their stuff [i.e., my science teacher insisted on pronouncing fungi as “fun-gee”. no joke.]</p>
<p>3)smarter peers. even when i was in the top level class in public school, i felt weighed down by the other kids in my class, and i always felt every class was moving so slow and i wasn’t actually learning anything most of the day. prep schools offer kids who i can look up to and learn from, which will help you more than any teacher can.</p>
<p>4)boarding experience. living with your friends, 8 months of the year? exactly. you will become close friends with everyone within the few months, and they will all be friends for life. plus, you don’t waste time driving between school, soccer practice, music lessons, friend’s house, etc. [which i know saves me at least an hour a day]</p>
<p>5)independence. you get to live out in the world, basically on your own.</p>
<p>why do kids go to college? seems to me that all i might need in life is how to work at a restaurant. why spend 40k a year at harvard anyway?</p>
<p>it’s no different, you go to college for superior studies, and that’s why kids want to go to prep school. it’s for the kids who don’t want to just cruise through hs, but actually get a lot out of it.</p>