<p>Not a problem at all, zenxan! In fact, it’s a pleasure!</p>
<p>Features is 100% satire. Features doesn’t have a great reputation - the humor is often pretty immature… the rest of the paper is great, though! Glad you’re finding youtube clips of Andover helpful! You’d be correct in assuming that that video is representative of our spirit! We bleed blue, man :)</p>
<p>Oh so you’ve seen the vid too! Who are those guys anyways?? I couldn’t figure it out… First I thought it was Blue Key Society but they have girls too; I figured it was one of the sports teams? IDK. But it was hilarious. </p>
<p>Yeaaah…Features had one semi funny article (about the Andover bubble bursting I think) but the rest were just like . . . .ooohkaaaay. . . . No Swift or Orwell hidden between the masses I guess lol. So are the would be features articles in the Arts Section?</p>
<p>Visit the schools. Exeter doesn’t know what’s going on at Andover and Andover doesn’t know what’s going on at Exeter. Only you can make that decision. So go to the schools and see which fits YOU better. People from each school may think they know what’s better but that’s their opinion. If you want a straight answer visit the school and give it to yourself.! :)</p>
<p>Exonian97, you’re absolutely right. Unfortunately, calipaki has already stated that she will be unable to attend revisits.</p>
<p>Ohh…then…can’t help ya there! Haha well you should just go to each website and ask a teacher and student. Look over the guidebook and anything else they give you to get a closer look of Andover/Exeter and decide from that. This thread is too…competitive and pressured. To decide. Unless you want to watch them trash each other :)</p>
<p>i wish i got accepted to exeter and andover…</p>
<p>This is hilarious. I have truthfully not read this entire blog, but I hope that some exeter kid has given you (cali) some details that you can build off of when, hopefully, you visit the school. I completely agree with Tom, Andover isn’t for everyone…nor is Exeter. To rebut (somewhat) Pulsar’s comment about this being a market scheme for Andover: The last thing Andover’s admission office wants is a student who doesn’t belong there, which goes back to the “fit” of which Tom spoke. Like what you will find at most colleges, Andover seeks students that will positively add to its community. Students that don’t "fit’ at Andover often find themselves not taking full advantage of Andover for whatever reasons. That being said, yes it may seem like Andover has a monopoly–which is an undeserved term since Exonians have the liberty to post if they so chose–it’s because students like Tom, Allie, and I have what I may characterize as hubris because we love our school so much. I think however that a school should invoke hubris. Yes, humility is a great characteristic, but to some capacity you should have so much pride for your school that some may call it excessive. </p>
<p>If anything I think that the unnecessarily snide and belligerent comments from Pulsar may be vindictive of what you may find at Exeter. And dont get me wrong I have a ton of friends from Exeter–both alumni and current students—and truthfully after about your Lower year the rivalry becomes a fun one-time sensation during the Andover/Exeter sporting events… during my upper year a bunch of people I knew wore purple shirts to signify Andover Exeter unity. (sorry I’m getting off topic) Still, as a whole I know, and have heard from friends of, more fun-loving people at Andover, people that didn’t judge me for the mohawk I had my 10th grade year, or the outrageous outfits I wear that span from practically suits to stewie pajamas and suspenders. </p>
<p>BOTTOMLINE: Visit the schools. You will not know until you are there. And honestly, if you’re not getting enough of the PEA perspective ask. I’m sure they have a forum on here, and if not I’m sure you can find a list of clubs on their website and their corresponding presidents (you can on the PA website) ask them what they think.</p>
<p>Do they have campus jobs at PA for students who want to post on CC?</p>
<p>I wish Andover paid to deal with ignorant pricks… but alas they do not. </p>
<p>Cali: Tom has just informed me that you wont be able to attend revisits, which is a shame, but I think there is something to say when the exeter kid simply says, “Ohh…then…can’t help ya there!”</p>
<p>Was it such a hot button question for you to lose your temper? Is your answer telling us something about Andover students? The Deans Journal says they recruit only “nice” kids.</p>
<p>DieterSama is a nice kid. He and I just don’t have a very high tolerance for ■■■■■■, that’s all.</p>
<p>If I’m a ■■■■■, you must be SENIOR ■■■■■■, lol.</p>
<p>Umm… Sure.</p>
<p>Its also very immature to assume that any one topic could upset me. I have remained calm as you continually terrorized others, you continued maliciousness was enough to make me “lose my temper”. And a single instance in no way defines me as a person, and series of instances does however, and in almost every instance you have been as I have so dutifully described.</p>
<p>As long as we’re discussing the general attitude of student’s from each school (“Ohh…then…can’t help ya there!”) can we also say that andover feels a need to advertise? Implying that its actually NOT at the same level as Exeter? And exeter’s apparent unenthusiastic, unsubstantiated response is generated by the lack of need for it because the establishment itself is so well-reputed?</p>
<p>If Exeter students are enjoying spring break and not posting here, I don’t know how people at PA enjoy more if they are sitting here and posting on CC? May be it’s their form of “Andover is fun?”</p>
<p>Its funny when someone who asks for help then complains when they see said help. If it’s true that you will be unable to see both (or either) school wouldn’t you want someone to paint as vivid as a picture as possible? I do believe Tom and I have taken a pretty diplomatic approach shying away from bashing Exeter–simply because we are not familiar, enough, with the school–at least I have. So when you’re trying to make a case for your school without bashing another all you can really do is add as much detail as you can.</p>
<p>As for being on here correlating with the amount of fun I have. You couldn’t be more wrong. I don’t care if you believe me, that’s not my “job”, but while on Spring Break I am–still–having a ton of fun. Just because I take a few (out of many) minutes in my day to inform people of my school says nothing about the rest of my day. (I’m not sure if you have a bedtime Pulsar but I do not, and in NYC the nighttime is when the parties really begin)</p>
<p>As for “exeter’s apparent unenthusiastic, unsubstantiated response [being] generated by the lack of need for it because the establishment itself is so well-reputed?” If you would like to go to a school where enthusiasm and related excitement is frowned upon, then Exeter might be the place for you, because at Andover we’re all about enthusiasm, for everything we do–which I think is apparent when looking at our Blue Key Heads a year-long position, which Exeter–I can say for sure–does not have an equivalent of. But that is okay. Cali, I have to tell you a painstaking truth, plenty of people are dying to go to Andover, plenty of people will be happy with their choice to go to Andover, plenty of people will thrive an get the most out of Andover, plenty. So if you chose not to go, plenty of people still will. Now Tom and I are trying to assure people about their choices, we, like the admission office, dont want someone who would thrive at Exeter and do less so at Andover coming to Andover, which is also true for the inverse. So if after our “advertising” you feel better about Exeter we have done our duty, whether you appreciated our added efforts or not. </p>
<p>I implore you to read this article from a Harvard junior: [A</a> Harvard Education Isn’t As Advertised - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/03/18/a-harvard-education-isnt-as-advertised?PageNr=1]A”>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/03/18/a-harvard-education-isnt-as-advertised?PageNr=1)</p>
<p>All I have to say: Gosh!</p>
<p>If you reread what I posted, I didn’t make any labels or state any opinions. I’m shocked to get such a vehement response from such a passive message. Chill chill chill. They’re both great schools. Lets not get offended.</p>
<p>Calipak, where did you get that idea?</p>
<p>Ironically, internationally (among BS fans from Asian countries in particular, which is a huge part of the top BS applicant pool), Andover is considered the Harvard of high school while Exeter is more of an MIT. In countries where science and technology are highly regarded, MIT or Exeter is not less than Harvard or MIT, but Exeter is not more “well-reputed” either. As for in the US, there is no formal survey out there on which school is better reputed, but for years Andover has consistently had a lower admit rate and higher yield, which among other things might have something to do with Andover’s “campaign strategies” but I doubt they NEED more “advertisement”.</p>
<p>We’re just happy to help out - no agenda :)</p>
<p>I wish there had been this many PA kids willing to take questions when I was applying. That’s a large part of why I’m here. I frequented CC during application but was unable to find too much info on stuff like housing and student life in general, so I just want to make sure this info is out there for current and future applicants.</p>
<p>I’m still taking questions! As always, happy to help out!</p>