<p>Anybody here going to Kent School?</p>
<p>I most likely am but I am not 100% sure.</p>
<p>I am for 10th grade</p>
<p>anybody ride at kent?
thinking about applying there</p>
<p>My sister is going to apply to Kent School. Can you share any advice with the admission process?</p>
<p>I was accepted at Kent but won’t be going.</p>
<p>youngblade- I found the faculty to be extremely warm and inviting. My interview there was probably one of my most relaxed ones. It’s really a place where you don’t have to put on a mask and you can just be yourself.</p>
<p>i want to know about its college matriculation.
does anyone know it?
3Q</p>
<p>Bomb up~bomb up~</p>
<p>^ Search the website… [Kent</a> School - Academics](<a href=“http://www.kent-school.edu/academics/college.cfm]Kent”>http://www.kent-school.edu/academics/college.cfm)</p>
<p>Can anyone describe this school (Kent)? Is it cut throat ala Andover or nurturing ala Blair? Are the students happy? Is it cliquey(sp)? Is it too WASPY? In order to be involved in crew, must a boy have a perfect build for it, or would he be allowed on the team if he is
5’6" as a ninth grader? Are the instructors available? Are students allowed to go across the bridge and into town? Please, any info helps!!!</p>
<p>Happy now, Burb Parent?</p>
<p>FIF, if I am not mistaken you think that burbparent is enthusiastic about Blair and wants to convince people that it is a great place. Well he (or she) convinced me, but I would like some impressions about Kent!</p>
<p>My daughter attends Kent and she is very happy there. It is not as cut throat as Andover, but you will learn as much as you want to as the teacher’s are attentive and available. The courses are much more demanding than the prep day school that she left. My daughter has made many friends all with varied interests and backgrounds. Students are allowed to go into town during their free time (until 5:00pm in the Fall/Winter and until 6:00 during the Spring). I don’t know about the boy’s crew team.</p>
<p>Boy’s crew is straight up hell. In the sense that you have kids that would chop off their right foot to be able to row(You need your hand to row, so I changed the expression).
The training camp in Austin is either still going on or it ended… From what I hear: The boys are starting to break down after they row and just sit in their rooms instead of going out during leisure time. I don’t know if that was an exaggeration as a joke though.</p>
<p>They punish their bodies because they love crew… That sounds really attractive to an athlete. Let’s say you are a casual athlete… I don’t think that would make you want to do crew. It can get super competitive on the school level. That was my point…</p>
<p>Italian, I dont understand your response. My question pertained to crew and ninth grade boys at Kent. Is there opportunity for participation for a ninth grader of average height? Does the crew program exclude all but the most ideal individuals for the sport?</p>
<p>They don’t exclude anyone. They mold everyone into an ideal individual… Like I met with the coach and he told me that I would be on a cross country diet and I’d have to be on the cross country team in the fall. Football wouldn’t be his first choice for my fall sport. He suggested that I pick up swimming in the Winter so that I can get upper body strength with my cardio…</p>
<p>My point: Your kid may start out average, but they will require that he does another sport to get in shape, they heavily recommend that you do cardio sports, they heavily recommend that you go to the Austin training camp and they recommend that you run during breaks. As long as your kid can go through the average to above average transformation you are good. He won’t get turned down, but he might get “shut down” if he doesn’t want to put towards an “ideal” level of effort. </p>
<p>They don’t exclude, but they set a pretty high bar with all of the preparation. </p>
<p>That might be confusing, but I’m trying to say they will let him try. BUT the bars are set high…</p>
<p>Thank you italian, you have clarified. They emphasize endurance sports (running, swimming) in the off season. And because it is a good program (?the best) they expect at least 100%…</p>
<p>Pan – pertaining directly to your question: Italian is pretty much spot on, but you should be aware that height is unfortunately a factor in rowing. Kent will welcome all comers but at the varsity boat level most of these guys and girls tend to be pretty tall. </p>
<p>On the other hand who knows how tall you’ll be by 5th form.</p>
<p>fif,
When you refer to the “varsity boat” do you mean a single boat or the top several? They have several boats that compete; how does it break down? Also, what about “heavy” versus “light?” And I have read elsewhere that a competitor of average height may make up for that with form, endurance, technique, motivation, etc.</p>
<p>Typically the first three boats are varsity, the rest are mid-boats or lower-boats, or sometimes “novice”. Only colleges break down crews by heavy and light, with the light max being 150 (or is it 155?). You are right, there are plenty of vertically challenged rowers on these crews at all levels, so go for it…</p>
<p>Thank you fif! And just to get the thread ignited once again, will anyone take a stab at who the most famous Kent alum is? Hint: he/she resigned from office over policy differences.</p>