Best looking prep schools

<p>I would for sure deny them! That's rude.</p>

<p>yeah...
why would you want a girl thats so hair obsessed that she tries to straighten it in a INTERVIEW in your school?
no offense to those girls.... xD</p>

<p>yikes, the whole straightener thing is creepy. My friends would never talk to me again if I did that. O.o</p>

<p>Wow.</p>

<p>Straightening hair in class...</p>

<p>THAT is sign of character!</p>

<p>Some people just don't want ugly hair no offense or anything but for some people it's important and they want to look good</p>

<p>i'm not saying i would straighten it in an interview or anything though that would be kind of rude but i understand doing it in class it's not that much different than doing your makeup in class which everybody does</p>

<p>Ha. No body puts make up on during class, or straightens their hair. Let alone during class, no one does it during school hours.
Cool, if your school is that relaxed to let you have a straightener with you at all times (in case of emergency!!), awesooooome for ya.</p>

<p>Its not like people do it during like a test or anything just like during notes or whatever and most people bring their makeup and straighteners and stuff to school anyway because girls have athletics in the mornings we get there at like 6:45 and we end in the middle of first period so they give us like 45 minutes to get ready and stuff so people usually have everything with them anyway and about the girl with the straightener the teacher wasn't like happy about it she just kinda gave her this look but she was thinking just like why even bother its too much trouble to deal with I mean not all the teachers are like that but she was so whatever it was just kinda funny like the way she looked at her</p>

<p>And you don't like just carry a straightener around you have it in your purse</p>

<p>The teacher was probably thinking, "If this girl thinks the most important part of her head is her hair, then why do I bother?"</p>

<p>Lol ya that's what I would think if i was a teacher.</p>

<p>Some of you bring your straighteners to school and straighten your hair during class? Are you effing kidding me? And you don't see anything wrong with that? ...Wow. I can see where your priorities lie.</p>

<p>Well if the classroom is like humid your hair gets curly I mean I wouldn't do it during class but I can understand people who
do I'm a good kid though I wait until after class to take care of that kind of stuff</p>

<p>you know you can get your hair chemically straightened right???</p>

<p>I can't do that with my hair its like bad for it I'm half black and half white so my hair is like weird and I can't do that I would if I could but I can't. I'm not saying that using an iron is good for it but its better than the chemicals</p>

<p>It would be so awesome if there were admissions officers with your files on hand reading this board because, to be frank, some of you are completely nuts and no schools in their right minds would send you acceptances if they knew what kind of superficiality they would be dealing with.</p>

<p>Have you ever heard of just looking the way you're supposed to look, natural with at least very little makeup and cosmetic treatment? I don't care how common it is at your school, it still sure as hell is pretty damn shallow.</p>

<p>Wow I know kids in my school who fix their makeup and stuff in the bathroom...never in class. No one would dare bring a straightener in the room. I understand if it's lunch or you've got a passing period and you go straighten your hair in the bathroom, but while a teacher is teaching that's sort of rude.</p>

<p>Plus the most makeup I wear on a daily basis is my chapstick anyway. Eyeliner and mascara for now is right now only reserved for dances, special occasions...and it's barely noticeable on me then. I never grew up in that 'looking nice = makeup' environment so I'm used to what I look like and just find makeup a hassle, in general. But that's just me...like I find nail polish awkward on me and I think I would look terrible with dyed/highlighted hair.</p>

<p>See that's just not what its like here. I don't know if its just because its a public school or what but here for a majority of the people social stuff is a million times higher on the priority list than like academic stuff as you can see I'm not like that because if I was I wouldn't be applying to schools like these but about the wearing make up thing here its pretty much an everyday thing for pretty much everyone I don't know where yall are at but the whole not really wearing makeup and not straightening your hait is kinda weird that's completely different from here</p>

<p>Sorry to butt in. I feel a little out of place on this thread because I am an adult. However, for those who come from a social scene where the idea is that if you don't devote 1+ hours to primping then you don't care how you look, be prepared for a very big culture shock if you end up in the northeast. I moved here from the South and it was a VERY big change. Though I was never one of those girls who crowded the mirror after gym class, I was utterly unprepared for the mindset of many women in the northeast. The primping that is so normal in other parts of the country is often looked at as evidence of insecurity and superficiality in New England. It was a rather welcomed change for me. I found myself not having to roll my eyes nearly as much.</p>

<p>Look at your viewbooks. Beautiful girls. Very little make-up. I understand taking pride in how one looks. But please realize that others may not care as much as you do. Beauty is skin deep, as the saying goes. Excessive primping not only comes across as shallow, it also signals insecurity in one's looks and over-importance of what others think. One's mood should not be dependent on how one looks. So the general attitude that I have found up here is that one should take pride in how they look, not necessarily try to change how they look. I'm still kind of an outsider in the northeast. I've only been here 10 years. I have found some of the cultural differences very interesting. What is considered "taking pride in how one looks" in the South is considered simple vanity in the Northeast. That's been my experience, anyway.</p>

<p>Another adult here. Neatoburrito, I have several relatives who moved from the northeast to the south. Enormous culture shock for the women, especially in the area of personal grooming.</p>

<p>This thread does illustrate the value of diversity, though. It's a good idea for a school in Connecticut to accept students who are different. Not inferior, not shallow, not stupid, simply different. It widens the perspective of the rest of the student body. Some cultures spend more time and effort on personal appearance than others. Don't think less of someone because they don't share your values on the relative worth of grooming.</p>

<p>As an aside, I think you would be hard pressed to find any female executive, doctor, lawyer, or public figure, who doesn't expend considerable time and energy on personal appearance.</p>