<p>We are a Black family. I have one daughter at an all girls' boarding school and she is having a wonderful academic and social experience. It is a perfect fit for her. We have another daughter that will be applying to boarding school in the fall. She is a very different child than her older sister and while she is considering attending the same school as her sister, she does not think same sex education is for her. We are considering Blair Academy, Hotchkiss, Peddie and Lawrenceville. Black females tend to report a negative or non-existent social life specifically as it relates to dating at homogenous institutions relative to their peers. I want my daughter to get an excellent education but I don't want to put her in an environment where her self esteem is damaged because she is essentially invisible to the opposite sex. She is a very confident and outgoing young lady and I want her educational environment that she is going to be in during these formative years to enhance that not hinder it. I would love to hear from parents of Black female students or the students themselves regarding what their social life has been at any of these schools. </p>
<p>I don’t know about those schools. I do however know of a HADES school my daughter attended. There were not, as far as I could tell, any difficulties any of her African-American friends had with dating… most of them seemed to date about as much as the average student. </p>