25bestbs - 2010 list

<p>After researching and being accepted into some of the top five school, I feel all the top 25 schools seem to be on the same level. H A D A S seems to be misguiding parents and students on this form CC. We are starting to realize there are so many similar or better schools other then few schools. </p>

<p>Just promoting the top five school as the best schools is in-correct and is misguiding and is being misunderstood by everyone. </p>

<p>Maybe we should identify and come up with '25BESTBS - 2010' list for each year, which can be modified each year </p>

<p>'25BESTBS - 2010' are=</p>

<p>St. Paul; Choate; Hotchkiss; Westminister; Lawrenceville;</p>

<p>Taft; Deerfield; Westover ; Andover; George Town Prep</p>

<p>Thacher; Groton; St. George; St. Marks ; Concord Academy;</p>

<p>Middlesex; Governor's ; Canterburry ; Miss Proter's ; Loomis Chaffee</p>

<p>Cate ; Peddie ; Milton ; Exeter ; St Andrews DE</p>

<p>The above is not listed in any order or rank. Trying to identify just 25 BEST BS SCHOOLS FOR YEAR 2010 ADMISSION </p>

<p>Any takers OR like to revise the list??</p>

<p>Ehh, I think there are more deserving schools than Concord, Peddie, and Westover.</p>

<p>Blair, St. Mark’s, and either Kent or Hill should replace them.</p>

<p>i’d take westover and canterbury away. i’ve never heard of georgetown prep so i can’t say anything about it, but come on, i’ve never even heard of it!</p>

<p>anyways, determining ‘top’ lists will always have controversy and disagreement, since it’s all a matter of opinion… :P</p>

<p>The list works just fine for me! Thanks for doing this. I too, think people get too hung up on “which school is best.” Frankly if they’re in the top 25 in terms of selectivity, academics, and matriculation - it’s all relative given how many, many total schools there are.</p>

<p>I like it!</p>

<p>peddie is statistically better then blair, the hill, and kent. I believe their avereage sat score is 2050 which is high, higher endownment then both schools, college placement, and etc</p>

<p>concord’s average SAT score was 2061, ahahaa</p>

<p>Thanks ExieMitAlum</p>

<p>Please feel to revise or change the list. People are getting too hung up with just a few schools which I feel is incorrect. It is one of the reason the number of applicats are focused on just a few schools, not knowing other very very good school exist too. Hopefully in the future this will help reduce some disappointments with rejects or waitlisted applicants. This list is more for awarness and not written in stone and can be revised by anyone.</p>

<p>Juuuust kidding, I obvi don’t know what I’m talking about!</p>

<p>I think that perhaps it should be a lot more selective maybe the 15 or 20 top BS</p>

<p>top 15 (list, no order) IMHO
Andover
Exeter
Deerfield
Choate
Hotchkiss
St. Pauls
Milton
Middlesex
Groton
Taft
Lawrenceville
Peddie
Loomis
Cate
Thacter</p>

<p>And you forgot Emma?
(or maybe we should exclude single sex schools?)</p>

<p>Despite the widespread ambivalence to school rankings, ranking is actually easier to do and more “accurate” because ranking is almost based on numbers. The problem with ranking is that it’s not telling the whole story as schools are more than what’s on paper. A list is tricker though. As you expand your list to include more schools to be more “comprehensive”, someone may always come up with another school that should be included in the list - “if you have school A, why not school B? I think they are comparable and I have a good impression when I visited…”. You end up having all schools in your list!</p>

<p>Imo, lists or rankings are useful for ppl new to the BS scene. After you hang around on CC for a couple of years, you don’t need any of those! For beginners, the best approach - I think - is still to look at numbers to come up with an initial list of schools you will look into (you can’t possibly check out all the schools out there even on paper). A combination of things like endowment per student, admit rate, ssat, sat, college matriculation etc. is determining the “tier” of a school. Finding your tier, or choosing schools from more than one tier, and start you intensive research from there is a practical way to get started.</p>

<p>So true.
A: Add Gronton!
B: Hey, why Choate isn’t on the list?!
C: Middlesex is great, too!
D: …why not…</p>

<p>Yeah, it never ends if we really want an acronym. Let’s just stop using HADES when referring top schools.</p>

<p>what about dana hall?</p>

<p>Oh and i dont see the point of making a new list every YEAR. Schools don’t change that much.</p>

<p>In my opinion, Emma Willard is not one of the top 25, maybe top 50. We should group it like this:</p>

<p>Top of the best:
Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, Choate, St. Paul, Hotchkiss</p>

<p>Middle of the best:
Middlesex, Milton, Peddie, Loomis, Lawrenceville, Groton, Cate, Georgetown Prep, Hockaday </p>

<p>Bottom of the best:
Taft, St. Mark, Concord, Porter’s, Emma Willard </p>

<p>Remember, these are already the BEST!!!</p>

<p>I’m not sexist (I’m female!) but Emma and Ms. Porter’s are nowhere close to top 25. How come no one mentioned Thacher? Probably not many people from West Coast here.</p>

<p>Top of the best:
Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, Choate, St. Paul, Hotchkiss</p>

<p>Middle of the best:
Middlesex, Milton, Lawrenceville, Groton, Cate, Georgetown Prep, Hockaday</p>

<p>Bottom of the best:
Peddie, Loomis, Taft, St. Mark, Concord, St. Andrew’s, Thacher</p>

<p>Also, you guys may want to check this out: [Boarding</a> School Stats : Matriculation Stats](<a href=“http://matriculationstats.org/boarding-school-stats]Boarding”>http://matriculationstats.org/boarding-school-stats)</p>

<p>Okay - I deleted my post. I found those stats to be more interesting than I want to admit. :-)</p>

<p>and Georgetown Prep is far from the best in the DC/MD/VA area: Episcopal, Woodberry Forest and St Albans all have boarders.</p>

<p>There is simply no way that Choate can be “ranked” higher than Groton by any statistical measure.</p>

<p>Neato is dead on spot here.</p>