<p>What would you say is the most prestigious boarding school with the most kids accepted into ivy league? Choate?</p>
<p>Are you asking which BS is the most prestigious BS among Ivy League students?</p>
<p>Or are you asking which one is the most prestigious (on the basis of the most Ivy League acceptances)?</p>
<p>And are you looking for facts or subjective opinions about this...because neither of those questions you seem to be asking seems subjective yet you begin with "What would you say..." as though you're inviting opinion, not asking for someone to provide you with numbers or surveys that would answer your question.</p>
<p>Choate is great. But if you ask a lot of people around here, they'll say Andover, Exeter, Groton, etc. I think these have higher Ivy League %s than Choate.</p>
<p>Ivy League matriculations are highly skewed and should not even be considered. The kids who do get in an Ivy (or even MIT/CIT/Stanford) from a top BS are hooked. They're athletes, legacies, internationally-exhibited artists, and a few of the highest achieving "normal" kids.</p>
<p>Thank you blairt. Don't forget faculty kids as well.</p>
<p>If one is going to judge schools on matriculation, then you want the school that puts the most students into the best fitting schools, not the most Ivies. There are a lot of great minds that will be better suited for Bowdoin over Brown, Carolina not Cornell, Pomona before Princeton, and Davidson instead of Dartmouth. Looking at Ivies to the exclusion of LACs like Williams and all the great state universities is a huge mistake. One size doesn't fit all.</p>
<p>Oh, and the problem with getting to the answer to the best measure of matriculation (best job of finding the best fits) is that you can never measure it objectively. So people look to a poor and flawed substitute. Which is okay, but these people also tend to be oblivious to the fact that they're looking at a horrible substitute for what they really need to know. I want my children to end up in the best possible college or university. I want them to have as many doors opened to them as possible. So if there was a school that placed ALL of its students into Ivies, I would so NOT want my child to go there...because at this point I have no idea that an Ivy League school would be the best fit. And even if I did, I'd still need to find out if the school was placing the students into the Ivies that were best suited for those students.</p>
<p>wow blairt/d"yermaker, hooked, that's it! Not the particular boarding school. Pick a school that fits you well and all else will follow. Oh, and become an accomplished LAX player, squash player, oboe, etc</p>
<p>Yes.. the BS-->Ivy kids mostly have their college matriculation predestined before they apply to college, let alone prep school. That is, like prepparent said, assuming you will not find and master many latent talents and perform as a bagpipe soloist at carnegie every week in the fall (when not in your varsity crew & squash seasons). I will try new things at BS (thinking about taking a west african drumming class, establishing a zorbing club, and signing up for crew), but do not expect to become world-renown in any of my new EC's.</p>
<p>If u want to purely judge from prestige, well then Andover, Exeter, SPS, Deerfield, Choate, Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Groton and Milton are the commonly known "Most prestigious boarding schools" in the nation. but that doesnt mean much whatsoever.
Agree with previous posters that you cant judge from "ivy" matric..first, most kids are hooked. Take lawrenceville as example. They have the highest matric rate at princeton, but then dont forget lawrenceville is right next to princeton, and a lot of princeton's faculty and staff kids attend lawrenceville, and so on. Also different schools have different atmosphere which in my opinion makes kids want to apply to certain schools. For example, a lot of kids from hotchkiss want to go to georgetown or vandy more than any other schools. Last year, at least 7 kids chose Gtown over ivies. and we had over 30 kids heading to georgetown in the last 5 years... on the other hand, kids here dont really like to apply to MIT, as opposed to exeter, only 8 kids actually applied to MIT last 2 years, 4 kids accepted, none went (from college office packet)...so different school atmosphere inspire different student.
On the other hand, i think BS -> college admission is amazing this year. I think crh said it for choate, they have an amazing year. We hotchkiss have an amazing year too, with more than 35% gotten into an ivy so far, and that's not counting waitlist...i dont know why people think this year's gonna be so hard</p>
<p>and a personal experience, I myself chose U Michigan Ross over U Penn Wharton
so i can say it loud and proud, F the ivies</p>