<p>Sounds like you chose wisely. At the very least it sounds like you approached the decision wisely. From that I extrapolate to you making a wise choice.</p>
<p>Embrace the path ahead and don't look back!</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>After reading your posts, I'm glad you chose Andover. GOOD LUCK!!</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Congratulations! Can't wait to meet you in September :D</p>
<p>i second what runefx said :)</p>
<p>Congrats and have fun!</p>
<p>See you in september =D</p>
<p>Have fun at Andover. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Does Andover have a good orientation program for their 9th grade class?</p>
<p>Just to let you all know Milton sends a larger percentage of it graduates to Ivy's than either Exeter or Andover. In addition Milton is harder to get in to than Exeter and Andover only accepting 1 out of 9 of its applicants. In addition the facilities at Milton are pretty much awesome and you have great alumni relations making it pretty easy to get awesome internships.</p>
<p>Swissas, where did you get that 1 out of 9 applicants get accepted? They probably had nine applications per available spot.. you probably misinterpreted it.</p>
<p>Also, I would go to a school that is best suited to me. Swissas seems to write as if the purpose of attending is to leave and get into a good college. I will go to my school of choice for the experience, not just to leave and go to college.</p>
<p>I don't believe that Milton only accepts 1 out of 9. Boardingschoolreview.com (yes, I know it has some errors) states it at 24%, which seems more likely, when compared to other schools.</p>
<p>Also, if you want to compare Ivy matriculation, the Wall Street Journal did a study of high schools that send the highest percentages of students to certain Ivy league schools. (Google, and you will find. I don't want to post a direct link here, as there are enough threads discussing lists and rankings.) While Milton is high, others are higher, in THAT particular study. One person pointed out that many Milton students have parents who teach at Harvard, and that may increase Milton's matriculation rate into Harvard. I don't know if that is true, but it is a potential caveat for any study.</p>
<p>My key point is this: If you are going to make a blanket statement of fact, be prepared to back it up, just like you will have to do when writing a research paper in high school. If you are stating an opinion, that is different, but factual statements need proof.</p>
<p>Sorry to harp on this, but I was a science major, and now work in the legal field, so I am always dealing with the concept of facts and proof.</p>
<p>Sorry if this doesn't help any..
but george bush went to andover..that's enough to turn me off =p</p>
<p>don't yell. i didn't intend for this as a political argument with anyone :)</p>
<p>oops, i was careless enough to not read the last page of this thread before posting that..
congratulations coming to a decision and you can ignore my previous post =] haha sorry!</p>
<p>I'll contribute another view. My d is a day student at Milton. Your class will be divide equally between day and boarding students there, true, but not all the day students have known each other since kindergarten. Yes, some have--but only about 30 students in you class of 160 or so. My d started this year, her freshman year, and knew not one other person. Now, most of her close friends are boarders. She spends lots of time on weekends at school with her boarding friends, and travels into Boston with them. They all take the train or cabs to the movies, and sometimes I drive them. We have had her boarding friends over for dinner and for the night. So, from my point of view, what you hear about the abundance of day students is very over-simplified at Milton--and has other sides. My d loves school, does have a sense that it is a warm, not overly competitive place. Her boarding friends also talk about how on their revisit they found the students friendly and welcoming, as you did. (Maybe you were in my d's Physics class!). Milton is an incredible place for the arts, and though the school is close to some rough areas, students travel into Boston and all over all the time. (Another perspective on the location.) One of my d's classmates is going to be taking a class at MIT because he is so advanced in Math. The location of Milton Academy does have its strengths. Each of these schools can offer you something wonderfully impressive as far as graduates. If you want to know more, you can PM me. I think you are wise not to eliminate Milton based on how you felt during the classes. My d would agree with your instincts.</p>