2013 List of Exceptional & Unique Offerings at some BS

Prep School Admissions
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<p>Updated one-stop list of some of the exceptional & unique aspects at some BS, that don’t readily pop up on the BS search sites like TABS or Boardingschoolrview. PLEASE ADD TO/EDIT THIS LIST:</p>

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)
* Deerfield * Concord * Choate</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:
* Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:
* St Paul's</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:
* Concord</p>

<p>"NEW GIRL"/"OLD GIRL" PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter's) - RING CEREMONY
* Miss Porter's</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:
* St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark's * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter's (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week)</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you're out)
* Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding</a> Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:
* Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:
* Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:
* Miss Porter's School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:
* Choate</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:
* Choate * St. Mark's * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area)</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
* Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE
* Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE
* Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE
* Concord * Loomis * Choate</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)
* Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)
* Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:
* Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)
* Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul's * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities)</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:
* Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers)</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:
* Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:
* Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):
* St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:
* Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding</a> School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:
* Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul's School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:
* Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:
* Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:
* Groton * Kent School * St. Paul's School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)
* Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:
* Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:
* Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew's (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:
* New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter's</p>

<p>WOODWORKING
* Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:
* Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:
* Concord * Miss Porter's * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:
* Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter's * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS
* Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN
* Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)
* Cate</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:
* Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
* Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
* Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
* Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
* Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
* Concord: Junior retreat</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:
* Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:
* Cate * Putney</p>

<p>ARCHERY:
* Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:
* Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS
* Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:
* Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS
* Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM
* NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE
* Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter's * Andover</p>

<p>SAILING
* Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:
* Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
* Deerfield - almost entirely singles
* Thacher - all new dorms
* Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
* Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
* Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
* Concord - converted historic houses
* Miss Porter's - converted historic homes</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:
* Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:
* Choate * Deerfield</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:
* Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM
* Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:
* New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:
* Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:
* Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter's * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:
* Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul's, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:
* Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul's School * Concord * Loomis (2)</p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY
* Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK
* Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark's * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM
* The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM
* Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:
* Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):
* Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:
* Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
Note: While many schools have "limited funds" available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew's (DE) do both.
* Andover * St. Andrew's (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:
* Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:
* Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search</a> for Private Schools
link: Boarding</a> Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding</a> Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding</a> Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

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<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week)</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area)</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2)</p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

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<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week)</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2)</p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

5

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week)</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate * Deerfield</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (with boathouse) </p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

6

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week)</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com
St. Paul’s 100% Boarding</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>ASTRONOMY
St. Paul’s </p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate * Deerfield</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (with boathouse) </p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

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<p>It would helpful to include a brief description of what changes you’ve made when you do an update, tidy up formatting, etc., so people who are already familiar with the list don’t have to read through the whole thing to try to find each change. Knowing you’ve added a new category might jog someone’s brain towards another addition. But if what you did was correct the capitalization we can coast a little…</p>

<p>I see we’ve lost the live links to stats on diversity & FA (at the very end). I’m not in a position to fix that right now but maybe somebody else can. There may be other parts that need fixing since I did not proofread the entire post.</p>

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<p>Groton has the de Menil Gallery, I added this as an art museum.</p>

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week)</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com
St. Paul’s 100% Boarding</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>ASTRONOMY
St. Paul’s </p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate * Deerfield</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (with boathouse) </p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery *Groton - de Menil Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

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<p>Updates/additions for Episcopal High School</p>

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton * Episcopal</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate
*Episcopal (similar but during Friday chapel)</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal (5x/week) * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week)</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com
St. Paul’s * Episcopal * Woodberry Forest * St. Andrews (DE) - 100% Boarding</p>

<p>HONOR CODE

  • Episcopal, most respected school tradition, one of the oldest in the country, new students attend HC Assembly and sign HC book </p>

<p>DIPLOMA

  • Episcopal, very unique and personal - signed by every faculty member in special ceremony</p>

<p>ROSE CEREMONY

  • Episcopal, before Commencement each year, the junior girls give roses to the senior girls as a symbol of this rite of passage. The senior girls then carry the roses throughout the Commencement ceremony.</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>ASTRONOMY
St. Paul’s </p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton * Episcopal (English/Humanities)</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate * Deerfield</p>

<p>ACADEMIC TOURS

  • Episcopal, Every Wednesday students visit Washington, DC area and tour museums, theatre, etc.</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton
  • Episcopal: A five-day hiking and climbing Outward Bound trip held in the fall and is required for all ninth-grade students.</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield * Episcopal</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (with boathouse) </p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery *Groton - de Menil Gallery * Episcopal - Angie Newman Johnson Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

10

<p>I thought Exeter was no longer need-blind.</p>

11

<p>Bump…</p>

12

<p>Having problems quoting the message, so here is the info separately:</p>

<p>Andover also has no Saturday classes.</p>

<p>ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM

  • Andover–The Peabody Museum</p>
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<p>Updates/additions for Episcopal High School</p>

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton * Episcopal</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate
*Episcopal (similar but during Friday chapel)

  • Asheville School (chapel talk weekly by seniors)</p>

<p>SENIOR THESIS

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal (5x/week) * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week), *Asheville School </p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard) * Asheville School (honor violation)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com
St. Paul’s * Episcopal * Woodberry Forest * St. Andrews (DE) - 100% Boarding</p>

<p>HONOR CODE

  • Episcopal, most respected school tradition, one of the oldest in the country, new students attend HC Assembly and sign HC book * Asheville School</p>

<p>DIPLOMA

  • Episcopal, very unique and personal - signed by every faculty member in special ceremony</p>

<p>ROSE CEREMONY

  • Episcopal, before Commencement each year, the junior girls give roses to the senior girls as a symbol of this rite of passage. The senior girls then carry the roses throughout the Commencement ceremony.</p>

<p>MINIMAL EVENING SUPERVISION

  • Merscersburg</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>CHINESE

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>INTEGRATED HUMANITIES PROGRAM

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>ASTRONOMY
St. Paul’s </p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton * Episcopal (English/Humanities)</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S </p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent * Asheville School</p>

<p>BOW TIE CLUB

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate * Deerfield</p>

<p>ACADEMIC TOURS

  • Episcopal, Every Wednesday students visit Washington, DC area and tour museums, theatre, etc.</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton
  • Episcopal: A five-day hiking and climbing Outward Bound trip held in the fall and is required for all ninth-grade students.
  • Asheville a School</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate * Asheville a School</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney * Asheville School</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>

<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield * Episcopal</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate * Asheville School</p>

<p>GREAT SCIENCE CLASSROOMS

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (with boathouse) </p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire<em>Kent</em></p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery *Groton - de Menil Gallery * Episcopal - Angie Newman Johnson Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com </p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

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<p>Various Updates/additions</p>

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton * Episcopal</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate
*Episcopal (similar but during Friday chapel)

  • Asheville School (chapel talk weekly by seniors)</p>

<p>SENIOR THESIS

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal (5x/week) * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week), *Asheville School</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard) * Asheville School (honor violation)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com
St. Paul’s * Episcopal * Woodberry Forest * St. Andrews (DE) - 100% Boarding</p>

<p>HONOR CODE

  • Episcopal, most respected school tradition, one of the oldest in the country, new students attend HC Assembly and sign HC book * Asheville School</p>

<p>DIPLOMA

  • Episcopal, very unique and personal - signed by every faculty member in special ceremony</p>

<p>ROSE CEREMONY

  • Episcopal, before Commencement each year, the junior girls give roses to the senior girls as a symbol of this rite of passage. The senior girls then carry the roses throughout the Commencement ceremony.</p>

<p>MINIMAL EVENING SUPERVISION

  • Merscersburg</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>CHINESE (most schools!):

  • Asheville School * Exeter * Andover * St. Paul’s * Loomis </p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>INTEGRATED HUMANITIES PROGRAM

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>ASTRONOMY
St. Paul’s * Exeter</p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester) * Exeter (trimester course)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton * Episcopal (English/Humanities)</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton * Exeter (mountain school; 1 trimester)</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas) * Exeter (same as Lawrenceville)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S</p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent * Asheville School</p>

<p>BOW TIE CLUB

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate * Deerfield</p>

<p>ACADEMIC TOURS

  • Episcopal, Every Wednesday students visit Washington, DC area and tour museums, theatre, etc.</p>

<p>RADIO STATION

  • St. Paul’s * Exeter</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton
  • Episcopal: A five-day hiking and climbing Outward Bound trip held in the fall and is required for all ninth-grade students.
  • Asheville a School</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate * Asheville a School</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney * Asheville School</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>
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<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms
  • Exeter- each dorm has a different look; mix of halls and houses</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield * Episcopal</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate * Asheville School * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>GREAT SCIENCE CLASSROOMS

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (with boathouse)</p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire * Kent * Loomis</p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery *Groton - de Menil Gallery * Episcopal - Angie Newman Johnson Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) *</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

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<p>Various Updates/additions</p>

<p>T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S</p>

<p>NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many schools)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate * Milton * Episcopal</p>

<p>NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING:

  • Groton</p>

<p>GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:

  • St Paul’s</p>

<p>HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:

  • Concord</p>

<p>“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s) - RING CEREMONY

  • Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>TUESDAY TALK (speeches given weekly by 1-2 senior students to the student body)
*Cate
*Episcopal (similar but during Friday chapel)

  • Asheville School (chapel talk weekly by seniors)</p>

<p>SENIOR THESIS

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2x/week) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) (on Wednesdays) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall and spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (once a week) * Episcopal (5x/week) * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2x/week) * Blair (generally 2x/week) * Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring) *Kent (once a week), *Asheville School</p>

<p>ONE-SANCTION EXPULSION (1-strike you’re out)

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard (for ANY candle or flame in dorm or on campus) *Concord (same as Emma Willard) * Asheville School (honor violation)</p>

<p>HIGH % BOARDING
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Boarding Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com
St. Paul’s * Episcopal * Woodberry Forest * St. Andrews (DE) - 100% Boarding</p>

<p>HONOR CODE

  • Episcopal, most respected school tradition, one of the oldest in the country, new students attend HC Assembly and sign HC book * Asheville School</p>

<p>DIPLOMA

  • Episcopal, very unique and personal - signed by every faculty member in special ceremony</p>

<p>ROSE CEREMONY

  • Episcopal, before Commencement each year, the junior girls give roses to the senior girls as a symbol of this rite of passage. The senior girls then carry the roses throughout the Commencement ceremony.</p>

<p>MINIMAL EVENING SUPERVISION

  • Merscersburg</p>

<p>A C A D E M I C S</p>

<p>ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate (Can also be in interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Program) *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>CHINESE (most schools!):

  • Asheville School * Exeter * Andover * St. Paul’s * Loomis</p>

<p>SACRED TEXTS:

  • Groton</p>

<p>REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s School (Sophomore year) * Brooks * Cate (called “Sophomore Seminar”)</p>

<p>ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:

  • Choate</p>

<p>INTEGRATED HUMANITIES PROGRAM

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through its Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships in Boston area) * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Westover</p>

<p>NAUTICAL SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey</p>

<p>ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE

  • Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>COMPUTER SCIENCE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Milton * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>CARIBBEAN STUDIES (on a schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor * Lawrenceville (Island School)</p>

<p>ASTRONOMY
St. Paul’s * Exeter</p>

<p>WINTER TERM (Period of time during a vacation where students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School</p>

<p>SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester) * Exeter (trimester course)</p>

<p>HARKNESS TABLE: (many schools!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (in language/humanities) * Milton * Episcopal (English/Humanities)</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
most schools</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, Colorado. For experienced skiers/hikers) * Milton * Exeter (mountain school; 1 trimester)</p>

<p>OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (10 wks in fall aboard 130’ schooner sailing to Caribbean; also offered in spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)</p>

<p>ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville (Semester in Bahamas) * Exeter (same as Lawrenceville)</p>

<p>BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet as well as other dance disciplines)</p>

<p>FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney</p>

<p>IB:
link: Boarding School Search Tool | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S</p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent * Larenceville</p>

<p>ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord</p>

<p>ZOO:

  • Millbrook</p>

<p>BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis * Pomfret</p>

<p>INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy and Mentoring)

  • Westover</p>

<p>FIVES:

  • Groton</p>

<p>FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton *Lawrenceville * St. Paul’s</p>

<p>1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s</p>

<p>WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)</p>

<p>DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis</p>

<p>FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney</p>

<p>HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (taking care of a horse and learning to ride western-style are required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent * Asheville School</p>

<p>BOW TIE CLUB

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS

  • Blair</p>

<p>MODEL UN (many schools!)</p>

<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord</p>

<p>ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide association of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate * Deerfield</p>

<p>ACADEMIC TOURS

  • Episcopal, Every Wednesday students visit Washington, DC area and tour museums, theatre, etc.</p>

<p>RADIO STATION

  • St. Paul’s * Exeter * Pomfret</p>

<p>S P O R T S</p>

<p>WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (minimum 2x/year for one week each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr) * Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week in Sept.: freshman hike Sequoia National Forest; sophomores backpack into Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on Colorado River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen group)
  • Concord: Junior retreat * Milton
  • Episcopal: A five-day hiking and climbing Outward Bound trip held in the fall and is required for all ninth-grade students.
  • Asheville a School</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate * Asheville a School</p>

<p>MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney * Asheville School</p>

<p>ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)</p>

<p>SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)</p>

<p>SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)</p>

<p>KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate</p>

<p>STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville</p>

<p>OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>YOGA (many schools!)</p>

<p>ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor</p>
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<p>F A C I L I T I E S</p>

<p>GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II and III form with 3/4 walls and shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - almost entirely singles
  • Thacher - all new dorms
  • Cate - primarily singles, most with balconies, many with ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013 (school will remain the same size; 2 older dorms are being converted to other uses)
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms
  • Exeter- each dorm has a different look; mix of halls and houses</p>

<p>ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project)</p>

<p>ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield * Episcopal</p>

<p>PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis</p>

<p>CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (used to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (used to watch ocean sunset)</p>

<p>ALPINE TOWER:

  • New Hampton School</p>

<p>GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss * Taft</p>

<p>GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pools in New England Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond and swimming pool) * Choate * Asheville School * St. Paul’s * St. Andrews (DE)</p>

<p>GREAT SCIENCE CLASSROOMS

  • Asheville School</p>

<p>LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville</p>

<p>RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (boathouse on campus also) * Exeter (with boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (with boathouse)</p>

<p>On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate</p>

<p>HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft (2) * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire * Kent * Loomis * Pomfret</p>

<p>PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA with a paleontology museum)</p>

<p>ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery *Groton - de Menil Gallery * Episcopal - Angie Newman Johnson Gallery</p>

<p>ROWING TANKS:

  • Brooks * Blair</p>

<p>TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS ATM (many schools!)</p>

<p>ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many schools!)</p>

<p>A D M I S S I O N S / F A</p>

<p>FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, maximum grants are 50% of total costs”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” available for international students, Andover seems to be the only school mentioned with any frequency on this site that does not state that the funds for international students are limited.</p>

<p>NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS
NOTE: Need-blind admissions means the admission decision is completely separate from the FA decision. It does NOT mean that if you’re accepted your need will automatically be met. That is “full need” category. Andover and St. Andrew’s (DE) do both.

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *</p>

<p>FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)</p>

<p>FULL NEED AND NEED BLIND [The school does not consider need during admission process and will meet full financial need of all admitted students]:

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) -NOTE: They no longer call themselves need blind*</p>

<p>DIVERSITY
link: Search for Private Schools
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students of Color | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of International Students | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>% STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
link: Boarding Schools with the Highest Percentage of Students on Financial Aid | BoardingSchoolReview.com</p>

<p>CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many schools!)</p>

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PART ! OF 2:

T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S

NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate

NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING: * Groton

GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:* St Paul’s

HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:* Concord

“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s)-RING CEREMONY: * Miss Porter’s

TUESDAY TALK (speeches given wkly by 1-2 seniors) *Cate

SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2/wk) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall & spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall & spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (1x/wk) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2/wk) * Blair (generally 2/wk) * Brooks (2/wk, Fall & Spring) *Kent (1/wk)

SINGLE-SANCTION EXPULSION

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard & Concord (for ANY candle or flame in dorm/on campus)

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A C A D E M I C S

ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate

SACRED TEXTS: * Groton

REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s (Soph.) * Brooks * Cate (“Soph. Seminar”)

ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:* Choate

SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships Boston area)

WOMEN IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING:* Westover

NAUTICAL SCIENCE: * Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey

ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE: * Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate

COMPUTER SCIENCE: * Concord * Loomis * Choate

WINTER TERM (students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School

SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)

HARKNESS TABLE: (many!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (language/humanities)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: most

MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, CO. For experienced skiers/hikers)

OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (fall 10 wks aboard 130’’ schooner to Caribbean;spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)

CARIBBEAN STUDIES (schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor

ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville ( Bahamas semester)

BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet & other disciplines)

FILMMAKING:

  • Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney

E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S

FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School

NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent

ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord

ZOO: * Millbrook

BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis

INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy): * Westover

FIVES: * Groton

FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton

LAPTOPS for EACH STUDENT:
*Hotchkiss

1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s

WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)

DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis

FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney

HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (equine care & western equitation required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent

SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS: * Blair

MODEL UN (many)

GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord

ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide assoc of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate *Hotchkiss

S P O R T S

WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (min. 2x/year for one wk each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr)
  • Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week: freshman hike Sequoia Nat. Forest; sophs backpack Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on CO River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen)
  • Concord: Junior retreat

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate

MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney

ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)

SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)

SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)

KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate

STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville

OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate

YOGA (many schools!)

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover

SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor *Hotchkiss
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F A C I L I T I E S

GREAT/UNIQUE DORMS:

  • Groton - II & III form w 3/4 walls & shared cubicle.
  • Deerfield - mostly singles
  • Thacher - all new
  • Cate - primarily singles, most w balconies, many w ocean views
  • Blair - beautiful, large, recently renovated. Building 2 new dorms by Blair Lake for Fall 2013
  • Westover - Victorian Building, huge closets
  • Concord - converted historic houses
  • Miss Porter’s - converted historic homes
    *Lawrenceville- Huge common rooms
  • Exeter- each dorm has a different look; mix of halls & houses
    *Hotchkiss-constructing some new ones now

ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:

  • Choate (Environmental Immersion Program) * Proctor (Ecodorm) * Lawrenceville (30 acre solar farm) * NMH (part of Solar Learning Lab Project) *Hotchkiss: (Biomass facility)

ON-CAMPUS B&B:

  • Choate * Deerfield * Episcopal

PLANETARIUM:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Loomis

CAMPUS WEB CAM

  • Choate * Kimball Union Academy * Lawrenceville (to watch sporting events from afar) * Cate (to watch ocean sunset)

ALPINE TOWER: * New Hampton School

GOLF COURSE ON CAMPUS:

  • Lawrenceville * St. Marks * NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Blair * Peddie * Hotchkiss * Taft

GREAT SWIMMING POOLS/AQUATIC FACILITIES:

  • Deerfield * Exeter * Hotchkiss (only 8 lane pool in New Engl. Prep Schools) * Westtown * Miss Porter’s * Lawrenceville * Groton (indoor and outdoor- seasonal) * Blair * Peddie * Cate (year-round outdoor) * Concord (outdoor seasonal) (Walden pond & swimming pool) * Choate * Asheville School * St. Paul’s * St. Andrews (DE)

GREAT SCIENCE CLASSROOMS: * Asheville School

LAKE ON CAMPUS:

  • Westtown * Proctor * Brooks * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * NMH * St Paul’s, Williston (Ponds) * Peddie * Blair * Taft * Choate *Lawrenceville

RIVER ON CAMPUS:

  • Groton (& boathouse) * Exeter (& boathouse) * Kent * NMH * St. Paul’s School * Concord * Loomis (2) * Deerfield (& boathouse)

On the OCEAN/BAY

  • Portsmouth Abbey * St. George School * Tabor * Cate

HOCKEY RINK

  • Andover * St. Paul’s (2) * Deerfield * Millbrook * Groton (2) * Lawrenceville * NMH * Taft (2) * St. Mark’s * Tabor * Middlesex * Choate * Proctor * Hotchkiss (2) * Exeter (2) * Williston * Portsmouth Abbey * New Hampton School * Brooks * Milton * Berkshire * Kent * Loomis * Pomfret

PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM

  • The Webb Schools (only high school in USA w one)

ART MUSEUM

  • Andover - Addison Gallery of American Art *Lawrenceville- Hutchins Gallery *Groton - de Menil Gallery * Episcopal - Angie Newman Johnson Gallery

ROWING TANKS:* Brooks * Blair

TRADING CENTER (financial):

  • Wilbraham & Monson Academy

ON CAMPUS ATM (many)

ON CAMPUS CANTEEN (many)

A D M I S S I O N S / F A

FA FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

  • Andover * Emma Willard * Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School * New Hampton School * George School (max of 50% of tuition) * Thornton Academy * Putney (“Typically, max grants 50% of total”) * Berkshire
    Note: While many schools have “limited funds” avail. for intl. students, Andover seems to be only school that does not state intl. funds are limited.

NEED BLIND ADMISSIONS: “Need-blind” means admit decision is completely separate from FA decision. “Full Need” means if you’’re accepted your need will automatically be met…

  • Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Putney * Madeira * Concord * Deerfield * Exeter * Groton * Cate *

FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR <$75K household income:

  • Groton * Exeter * St. Paul’s (<$80K)

FULL NEED & NEED BLIND [School does not consider need during admission process & will meet full financial need of all admitted]: * Andover * St. Andrew’s (DE) -NOTE: They no longer call themselves need blind*

DIVERSITY
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% RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID
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CAMPUS VISIT REQUIRED (many)

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T R A D I T I O N S / R U L E S

NO SATURDAY CLASSES: (many)

  • Deerfield * Concord * Choate

NIGHTLY HANDSHAKING: * Groton

GROUP HUG BEFORE VACATIONS AFTER CHAPEL:* St Paul’s

HUG LINE BEFORE CHAPEL:* Concord

“NEW GIRL”/“OLD GIRL” PAIRING - CIRCLE OF LIGHT - SINGING IN THE GARDEN (Lots of singing at Porter’s)-RING CEREMONY: * Miss Porter’s

TUESDAY TALK (speeches given wkly by 1-2 seniors) *Cate

SIT-DOWN FORMAL MEALS:

  • St. Paul’s (2/wk) * Deerfield * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Thacher * Groton (weekly, fall & spring)* Peddie * Loomis (weekly, fall & spring) * St. Mark’s * Cate (1x/wk) * Episcopal * Portsmouth Abbey * Miss Porter’s (2/wk) * Blair (generally 2/wk) * Brooks (2/wk, Fall & Spring) *Kent (1/wk)

SINGLE-SANCTION EXPULSION

  • Hotchkiss * Pomfret * Emma Willard & Concord (for ANY candle or flame in dorm/on campus)

% BOARDING: Highest % Boarding| BoardingSchoolReview.com

A C A D E M I C S

ARABIC:

  • Deerfield * Loomis * Andover * Exeter * Choate

SACRED TEXTS: * Groton

REQUIRED ETHICS COURSE:

  • Miss Porter’s (Soph.) * Brooks * Cate (“Soph. Seminar”)

ARTS CONCENTRATION PROGRAM:* Choate

SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM:

  • Choate * St. Mark’s * Emma Willard (through Practicum program) * Concord (InSPIRE program: summer internships Boston area)

WOMEN IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING:* Westover

NAUTICAL SCIENCE: * Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey

ADVANCED MARINE SCIENCE: * Tabor * Portsmouth Abbey * Cate

COMPUTER SCIENCE: * Concord * Loomis * Choate

WINTER TERM (students return to campus for non-traditional classes of their choice)

  • Brooks * Lawrence * Berkshire * Millbrook * New Hampton School

SHAKESPEARE SEMESTER:

  • Episcopal * Cate (trimester)

HARKNESS TABLE: (many!)

  • Lawrenceville * Exeter * St Paul’s * The Masters School * Blair * Cate (English/Humanities) *Loomis * Concord (language/humanities)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: most

MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (full trimester camping/academic adventure) * Cate (1 trimester, based in Leadville, CO. For experienced skiers/hikers)

OCEAN CLASSROOM:

  • Proctor (fall 10 wks aboard 130’’ schooner to Caribbean;spring—16 wks & open to non-Proctor students for credit)

CARIBBEAN STUDIES (schooner 2 weeks)

  • Tabor

ISLAND SCHOOL:

  • Lawrenceville ( Bahamas semester)

BALLET COMPANY (for credit):

  • St. Paul’s * Westover * Concord (dance company: ballet & other disciplines)

FILMMAKING:

  • Hotchkiss * Concord * Loomis * Cate * Putney

E X T R A - C U R R I C U L A R S

FIRST Robotics Team:

  • Loomis Chaffee * St. Marks School * St. Paul’s School

NAO Robotics * Thacher * Brooks *Kent

ENGINEERING CLUB:

  • Concord

ZOO: * Millbrook

BELL-RINGING/BELLTOWER:

  • Groton * Kent School * St. Paul’s School * Northfield Mount Hermon (carillon) * Westover * Loomis

INVESTING IN GIRLS (Financial Literacy): * Westover

FIVES: * Groton

FARMING:

  • Westtown * Hotchkiss * St. Andrew’s (DE) * Kent * South Kent * Loomis * NMH * Putney * Olney Friends School * Buxton

LAPTOPS for EACH STUDENT:
*Hotchkiss

1:1 iPAD PROGRAM:

  • New Hampton School * Choate * Miss Porter’s

WOODWORKING

  • Groton * Salisbury (Sail Boat Building) * Proctor (several courses including boatbuilding)

DIGITAL ARTS:

  • Pomfret * Choate (digital photography/film/video) * Concord * New Hampton School * Cate * Putney * Loomis

FIBER ARTS:

  • Concord * Miss Porter’s * Putney

HORSEBACK RIDING:

  • Thacher (equine care & western equitation required of all Freshmen) * Portsmouth Abbey * Culver * Foxcroft * Madeira * Williston * Miss Porter’s * New Hampton School. * Putney * Exeter (club-local barn nearby) * Dana Hall (on campus barns) * Loomis (club-local barn nearby) *Kent

SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS: * Blair

MODEL UN (many)

GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Concord

ROUNDSQUARE SCHOOL (worldwide assoc of schools that allows students to travel between schools, tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service.)

  • Cate *Hotchkiss

S P O R T S

WILDERNESS CAMPING/ADVENTURES:

  • Thacher (min. 2x/year for one wk each, entire school)
  • Putney (entire school, in small groups, go on Long Fall camping/wilderness adventures at beginning of school year)
  • Colorado Rocky Mountain School (10-day backpacking orientation, then outdoor trips 2X/yr)
  • Proctor (5 day backpacking orientation)
  • Lawrenceville (outdoor/adventure program)
  • Cate (outings week: freshman hike Sequoia Nat. Forest; sophs backpack Yosemite; juniors camp at Kern River; seniors can go on CO River rafting trip, visit colleges, or lead underclassmen)
  • Concord: Junior retreat

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING:

  • Thacher * Fountain Valley School * Cate

MOUNTAIN BIKING:

  • Cate * Putney

ARCHERY:

  • Choate * Exeter (club)

SURFING:

  • Cate (intramural)

SKI LIFT/HILL ON CAMPUS

  • Proctor Academy * Eaglebrook (Jr BS)

KAYAKING:

  • Episcopal * Blair * Milton * Cate

STRONG FENCING PROGRAMS

  • Culver * Dana Hall * The Masters School * Lawrenceville

OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM

  • NMH * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor * Cate

YOGA (many schools!)

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

  • Hotchkiss * Concord * Loomis * Choate * Cate * Miss Porter’s * Andover

SAILING

  • Concord * Portsmouth Abbey * Tabor *Hotchkiss