Will you send you kid to Philips Academy Again?

cdnhockeymom
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:30:28 +0000

My sons went to prep school, different schools. One went to Andover. We sent them to prep school not for college placement in Ivies. We sent them (as Juniors) because it was a safe place to spread their wings and gain responsiblity before making the transition to college. Small size classes, highly engaged teachers and students, independance, great athletics, unlimited opportunities…the list goes on and on. And at Andover, classes he could never have taken at his local highschool. However I will say that if it was my son’s desire to go to an ivy, my personal belief is that going to Andover would have limited him opportunities. Why? Because he was not the best of the best there and a very large percentage of kids there want to go to Ivies. I think his chances would have been higher at a slightly lower academic school where he would have been very high in school rank and fewer students applying to those select schools. But that was never his goal and going to Andover was an amazing experience and did result in him getting into almost every college he did apply to with great scholarships, which did matter to our family. Not ivies but very respected highly ranked colleges. Excellent experience, excellent outcome.