Best Boarding Schools

Prep School Admissions
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<p>Can anyone tell me what they think are their 5 best boarding schools are? Mine is:
1.exeter
2.hotchkiss
3.andover
4.choate
5.st. paul's</p>

<p>And if anyone can give me any info they would like to share about any of these schools or others schools, that would be great. I am planning to go visit these schools in this coming fall.</p>

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<p>mine are
1.st.pauls
2.exeter
3.andover
4.choate
5.deerfeild (my personal favorites in no particular order)
im going to st.pauls next year and its amazing. the revisit made me love it even more. it has an amazing humanities program and a top notch athletic center. it has a very beautiful campus located in the middle of the woods.
i love it there =]</p>

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<p>Exeter
Deerfield
Choate
Hotchkiss
L'ville</p>

<p>sorry, not a big andover fan...</p>

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<ol>
<li>St. Paul's</li>
<li>Andover</li>
<li>Exeter</li>
<li>Deerfield</li>
<li>Hotchkiss</li>
</ol>

<p>Then comes Lawrenceville and Choate.</p>

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<p>Exeter :D
St. Paul's
Andover</p>

<p>^^ definite top 3.</p>

<p>Choate</p>

<p>Possibly top 4.. I'm not sure about Choate.</p>

<p>Deerfield</p>

<p>Lawrenceville
i don't know between these 2.. or if they're even in my personal top 5.</p>

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<p>Mine are:</p>

<p>Exeter
Andover
St. Paul's
Deerfield
Hotchkiss
Groton
Milton</p>

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<p>I'm not going to include my futur school in this </p>

<p>My top 8 in order :</p>

<ol>
<li>Exeter</li>
<li>Andover</li>
<li>St-Paul's</li>
<li>Hotchkiss</li>
<li>Deerfield</li>
<li>Choate</li>
<li>Milton</li>
<li>Groton</li>
</ol>

<p>That being said, you can't go wrong with any of these schools. I mean, you REALLY can't.</p>

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<p>mine are:
1. St Pauls
2. Exeter
Those are my top 2. There are about 5 others I really like but they are all roughly about the same on my favorites list:)</p>

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<p>Best Prep Schools are the schools which are members of and overlap across these three groups:</p>

<p>1) The Ten School Admissions Organization: <a href="http://www.tenschools.org/members/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.tenschools.org/members/&lt;/a>
2) The Eight School Association:
<a href="http://thenews.choate.edu/2007/04/20/Sports/Choate_Takes_First_Step_in.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://thenews.choate.edu/2007/04/20/Sports/Choate_Takes_First_Step_in.php&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.lawrenceville.org/about/news/detail.asp?back=archive&id=5756%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lawrenceville.org/about/news/detail.asp?back=archive&id=5756&lt;/a>
3) Prep 9: <a href="http://www.prepforprep.org/prepforprep/prep9.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.prepforprep.org/prepforprep/prep9.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Which are the following 7 schools:</p>

<p>- Choate Rosemary Hall
- Deerfield Academy
- The Hotchkiss School
- The Lawrenceville School
- Phillips Andover Academy
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- St. Paul's School <a href="TSAO%20and%20Eight%20School%20Association%20member%20but%20not%20in%20Prep%209">i</a>*</p>

<p>The above 7 schools are widely recognized as the nation's elite / most prestigious / "best" prep schools / "Little Ivies"</p>

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<p>Prestige: You have forgotten the smaller schools: Groton and Middlesex, plus one big combo day/boarding school, Milton. I grew up thinking that the top schools were Andover, Exeter, Groton, St. Pauls and Milton. Concord used to be strong, but it seems as if Deerfield and Hotchkiss have surpassed it.</p>

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<p>Groton is too small and Milton is more of a day/boarding combo as you stated. Middlesex is too small not to mention being the least prominent of those three. They don't really fall into the traditional category of a full scale proper boarding school. I agree that Groton and Milton, in particular, are excellent schools however.</p>

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<p>Somebody call Groton, Middlesex, and Milton. They'll want to know that they are not "full scale proper boarding school(s)", and I'm sure they will do whatever it takes to remedy the problem. Groton and Middlesex could take an additional 200-300 kids next year, for example. Can you say Quonsett Huts?</p>

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<p>fun is fun, perhaps i could have worded my last post better. the point is that Groton and Middlesex are considerably smaller than those schools previously listed such as the members of the Eight School Association or the TSAO (schools that annually convene as peers) Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, etc... 200-300 students would mean DOUBLING Groton and Middlesex and they would still be smaller. That was the point.</p>

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<p>I'm still not getting it. I'm going to say this...despite the double entendre that I apologize for and regret, but what does size have to do with anything?</p>

<p>The initial query -- which is actually far more regrettable than my question -- asks for the 5 best. Period. Not some circular logic that defines best as being restricted to schools that are the same size as the ones that comport with your view of what's best.</p>

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<p>Adding 300 to Groton and Miidlesex would put them at 650 plus and would make them bbbbiiiiggggeeerrrrr than H'kiss, D'field and St. Pauls.</p>

<p>At which point they would be "full scale proper boarding school(s)", and everyone could rest easy.</p>

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<p>who the hell cares anyway, go to the school u like..sheese</p>

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<p>what about taft?</p>

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<p>tuck faft, that's right!</p>

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<p>tuck that fat</p>

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<p>haha lol
i was gonna say sumthing,
but it mite have been considered inappropriate by sum ;)</p>