<p>What's the difference of boarder and day student?
Can a boarder switch to day student?</p>
<p>A boarder lives at the school during the school session, while a day student sleeps at school and commutes to school, like most high school students. Most boarding schools have a mix of both types, but the percentages vary. Many parents of day students feel like their kids are boarders because they spend very long days and good parts of the weekend, even overnights, at the school.
In general, for several reasons, schools discourage/don’t allow switching from boarding to day status unless there are special circumstances. Some schools are more open to the practice, especially if it benefits the school. A few years ago, a friend’s child was asked to switch from “local boarder” to day student when a small BS ended up with more boarders of the child’s gender than it had room for.</p>
<p>What should I know (before and after) for switch my child from boarder to day student?
Will she become an “outsider” of her friends?
Will she get the same attention from adviser and teachers as before?
Can day student attend the Formal Dinner ?</p>
<p>It really depends on the school. Some schools don’t have a problem with it, you can switch back and forth. Some will let you switch from day to boarding but not boarding to day. How your child fits in will depend on how close a group he/she has formed and what the culture is toward day students. Tabor for example blends their day students very well and are very supportive, you can stay for dinner any night and stay until curfew. Other schools you have to leave at dinner. Percentages of boarders and day are important to look at. If your school has 5% day students he/she may feel like they are the odd man out. It also depends on your child and what they are likely to feel. We are looking at prep schools that have both because our child wants to be day initially and switch to boarding in either the jr or sr year. We ruled out schools with 90% boarding because we want to make sure he can fit in while a day student. But we don’t really want a prep school that is 100% day because we personally feel the schools that board offer more opportunities, and like I said he wants to board at least one year.</p>
<p>She has few friends there but she is unhappy.
Because of academic pressure, sports injury which needs routine physical therapy.
First we thought about take one year off but found out it’s not a good plan anymore.
We try to get more info about switch to day student rest of this year.
She (we) still consider to be a boarder next year.</p>
<p>Some schools have rules. If you live in the one of the towns which surrounds the BS, you MUST be day student. If you live a little further away, you have a choice to board or commute. If you live even further away, you MUST board.</p>
<p>PEA has such rules.</p>
<p>This is really something you’re going to have to talk to the individual school about…there aren’t set standards for this type of thing that every school follows.</p>
<p>My daughter goes to Mercersburg. They have a unique system where all seniors are boarders, regardless if they have been day students. It makes for a very cohesive senior class.
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<p>I believe St Marks has something similar. If you are a day student as a freshman and soph., you get to board free as a junior and senior…or something to that effect.</p>
<p>If switch from boarder to day student:</p>
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<li>Will she has the same adviser?</li>
<li>Will she able to attend the dorm activities?</li>
<li>Will she allow to attend the monthly formal style dinner (sit down with her adviser and classmates)?</li>
<li>Every night during study hours, there are always at least one teacher on duty at the dorm, so when students have questions, they can just run to the teacher. How about day student? Only by e-mail?</li>
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<p>Again, for those questions the only people who are going to be able to answer that are the school that your kid goes to. It’s going to be different for every school. Every school is different and if we don’t know the school your kid goes to we can’t really give you an answer that will help you all that much.</p>