<p>Lawrenceville has been my dream school for a while, and it still is, but for some reason, I'm being really allured to the all-girls schools. So why all-girls or all-boys instead of co-ed? </p>
<p>Especially Emma Willard looks amazing. It reminds me of a harry potter setting from the pictures :) lol. It's not as prestigious as Lawrenceville, though is it?</p>
<p>If you are feeling a pull toward all-girls schools, at this point in the process, why not investigate further?</p>
<p>I went to a single-sex school for 9 years.</p>
<p>Pros:
-you really are encouraged to speak up because nobody’s worrying about impressing anybody.
-you don’t even have to look in the mirror before you leave for school because, again, nobody cares about impressing people.</p>
<p>Cons:
-many people feel awkward and uncomfortable when they’re released into the multi-gender world.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>I am not a fan of single sex schools, especially boarding ones. I feel that while you’re in any boarding school you are placed in a bubble, far away from the worries of the outside world. Then on top of that being in a same-sex school would in some ways tighten that bubble, because the real world is not made up of one gender.</p>
<p>GoBig – Reasonable take on an interesting subject. Any thoughts on the mountain of research that shows clearly that boys and girls learn differently?</p>
<p>His point was incredibly different. Regardless, the disparity illustrating the difference between male and female learning differences becomes less accentuated when you pull from a pool of amazing kids, most from good backgrounds (regardless of fiscal status, good background meaning support from parents). He goes to, I believe, SPS. The kids there are so incredibly smart and well rounded, that statistics cannot properly illustrate learning in such schools.</p>
<p>Moreover, the vast majority of schools from which the data was collected have teachers who don’t teach (with the one or two exceptions). Top boarding schools are like professors, except they know how to deal with HS students. </p>
<p>There is also a mountain of research that indicates that codependence (an exaggeration, by any means) helps students learn life skills that they would be rendered unable to learn in a single school setting. Hope that answers your question.</p>
<p>As for the OPs question… It really depends. I am a guy, and I couldn’t imagine being in a school only for males. It scares me and it is certainly not something I would like to partake in. However, as FIF stated, females may take that to a different degree and/or angle, and it may be beneficial. Females (not sure about you) tend to care a lot more about physical looks than do males… I shower and comb my hair in the morning, but I don’t spend hours making myself look beautiful (because god gave me looks, anyway). </p>
<p>However, don’t think you won’t feel pressure. Exposed to so many girls, a lot higher percent of the sample are bound to be good looking. With respect to the other gender, you will probably be flirtatious. However, even with that element in control, when you are exposed to a greater set of students who are great looking, you may get envious. </p>
<p>Just because you don’t know who is “hot”, per say, of the opposite gender doesn’t mean you don’t know the hierarchy of physique. You know who is good looking (more like you know who is not good looking) and that may make you more so insecure.</p>
<p>There are the right reasons, and the wrong reasons. Anything to do with lack of pressure and etcetera are largely incorrect representations of why people chose to go. </p>
<p>I don’t know who you are, and what you think like. It really is your choice, but I would certainly avoid it.</p>
<p>Prince – Congratulations.</p>
<p>Your response is the most inaccurate, meandering, nonsensical, mysoganistic, wordy, confusing and disingenuous eight paragraphs in the history of CC. </p>
<p>To paraphrase “The Graduate”: One word: politics.</p>
<p>Yes, I know. It is impossible to refute an argument (yours) which is not supported, more like a simple and inane statement. I have no clue what I am arguing against. </p>
<p>If you don’t understand what I am saying, it is your fault. I stated everything in the most explicit terms possible. Who actually counts the paragraphs anyway?</p>
<p>I echo the funster…Prince, not a clue as to what your point was. In any event it went over my head. I think my son should drop ME off at Deerfield this week.</p>
<p>It made perfect sense to me. It seems his line of thought is supporting a mixing of genders in schools and he is saying that she shouldn’t decide against a co-ed school just because she thinks she will feel better (The other opportunities outweigh the pressure.) Fif simply made a statement that may or may not be true. We do not know if her statement is correct because she hasn’t supplied any supporting information. Then she went on to insult his argument, once again without giving an informative rebuttal. I am on the side of of Principal Viola, who gave a good reason for overcoming the Social pressure of a co-ed school. However, he did not refute your point about which style promotes learning better, he simply provided a counter statement that was slightly more informative than your statement.</p>
<p>on a random sidenote: PrincipalV, for the record, i’m a girl :)</p>
<p>All girls schools rock! If the idea appeals to you, check them out. Girls who go to them find other ways to learn to interact with boys, so I don’t see any great disadvantage at learning about the real world. I have experience as a parent with a daughter who has gone to coed and all girls. Some girls love the single gender environment and others don’t, just as there is no school that is best for everyone. </p>
<p>And really, fun is fun has stated that there is research supporting gender-specific learning differences. I’ve read some of it, and it’s certainly out there for curious minds to find. Those of you who don’t like the idea of single sex schools shouldn’t go there, but it’s silly to think they couldn’t be the best places for some other students.</p>
<p>Fif I totally agree with you and I went to an all girls day school.</p>
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Sorry, I didn’t know!</p>
<p>I love the idea of not caring how you look and having more self confidence. But at the same time, I secretly feel kind of intimidated by Emma Willard… I mean I keep loving and thinking about it more and more, but I also keep thinking of it as pretentious. Anyone every read The Clique? Haha. </p>
<p>And I’m not saying the Lawrenceville campus isn’t beautiful. Actually it looks/feels more homey in my opinion and I’ve been there multiple times. Emma Willard seems so… too good to be true? And I don’t even know why – I just have an affinity for it.</p>
<p>Oh and also, I do believe that less interaction with boys wouldn’t be a big problem. The website says there are many opportunities to interact with guys, like dances. But then again, what do I know?
My point is, it could be beneficial to go to an all-girls school – girls and boys’ minds work differently, and an AGS (all girls school) is just more suited for girls. </p>
<p>[ps: I totally understand what Princ was trying to get across, but I have to admit, I had to read it a couple of times first. FiF, I’m glad you’re in this thread, and we can deter this from criticizing arguments by critiquing empathetically 
]</p>
<p>lvillejanice, at this date, I think it’s great to have a list with a variety of schools–even only Lawrenceville and Emma Willard. If you (or any other of this year’s applicants) are intrigued by single-sex schooling, it’s worth your while to visit a school. Here’s an article from Education Next about single-sex schooling, [Learning</a> Separately : Education Next](<a href=“http://educationnext.org/learning-separately/]Learning”>http://educationnext.org/learning-separately/). The article features sidebars on Emma Willard and Roxbury Latin.</p>
<p>I recommend you visit all the schools you like, if you can. Interview, submit applications, and wait until March 10th to discover your options. Revisit days can change your opinions of schools. Only on those days can you meet next year’s possible freshman class. September is not the time to strike a school from your list, sight unseen–as long as your list isn’t too long.</p>
<p>Peri – fif thanks you for posting that.</p>
<p>Earlier, fif posited a simple question, based somewhat on the research posted above.</p>
<p>Prince – fif suspects you are playing him. Your response was so obtuse (one of fif’s favorite word ever since Andy used it so effectively in “Shawshank”), so off point, and so well, silly, that there can be no other answwer. If so, well played young man, well played.</p>
<p>Fif, stop being ridiculous. If you are going to attempt to refute his point, don’t do so rudely because you have the backing of more people.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s fif – always looking for popular support.</p>
<p>I love these “debates”, first one since I got back on this website! </p>
<p>If you could tell me how my argument was obtuse, please do so. My argument may be, wrong but it carried its job out in far more candor than did yours. </p>
<p>I am not playing with you, I truly believe what I said. I did not take a direct stance on it (like you did), I rather tried to prove that within an all-girls school you are not going to be eased from the pressure that “ruins” the high school experience. </p>
<p>I have seen numerous threads on this board (and elsewhere) which illustrate the rowdy behavior (yes, you know what I mean… and no, I am not talking about beer or tequila) that happens at the parties which involve both all-girls and all-guys school. </p>
<p>If you notice, I never, in explicit terms, stated that Lawrenceville would be better for her, as I do not know her to any detail (fif goes back and looks at the post looking for a place at which PPV stated Lawrenceville>rest in explicit detail)…</p>