<p>Is Phillips Exeter #1?</p>
<p>You can pay like $30 to get the ranking from prepreview. </p>
<p>The top schools are pretty much as follows (not in any particular order)</p>
<p>Andover
Exeter
SPS
Deerfield
Hotchkiss
Choate
Milton
Peddie
Taft
Lawrenceville</p>
<p>Pretty much every school in the ISL and MAPL.</p>
<p>No, not by any measure (% admitted, college placement, pp endowment) I've seen.</p>
<p>What about Groton?</p>
<p>i love Groton..it think it might be #2</p>
<p>I really don't think that you can rank these schools. Each one is good at something else. In general, it doesn't really matter which of these you go to, as long as you go to one you like.</p>
<p>It's not like colleges, where Harvard and Yale have roughly the same atmosphere. Each of these schools are really different, and I don't think that you could really rank them. You could maybe put them into tiers, but you couldn't actually give them numbers like you can do for colleges.</p>
<p>purpoisepal, youre very right. =]
whats Groton good at? and Exeter?</p>
<p>Exeter excels at math. Many others things too but math is excellent. USAMO excellent showings from Exeter.</p>
<p>what about Groton?</p>
<p>Sorry I forgot Groton!</p>
<p>Groton looks like a great school. I've heard that it's known for their long legacies and old money. </p>
<p>I got their viewbook a few weeks ago and it looked like 50% of the student body were from Mass., and probably 75% were from New England. Only ONE student from my state! (Mich.)</p>
<p>Andover and Exeter are known to be equally matched in academics (they are long-standing rivals), however Andover is stronger in the humanities and Exeter is strong in Math. It depends on what classes you like and how they suit you.</p>
<p>For example, I visited Choate and Andover, but Choate has more acting classes than Andover does. I'm interested in taking acting, so that could be a pro for Choate. </p>
<p>It also depends on the atmosphere. I got the best feeling about Choate - I could see myself there. That's really the base of it - you should know what feels right.</p>
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<p>I can understand the desire to pigeon-hole schools, but this is simply not true. </p>
<p>What Exeter has done is emphasize its competitvie math team, recruiting and training a handful (like 3-4 people) of top math students each year. These kids were top math prospects before they got there and they work hard on the team. But Exeter has >1,000 students. If you look at their overall performance on SAT M, SAT IIM, math AP scores, and likelihood of attending science colleges, there is no evidence that Exeter students are better at math overall than those of the other top prep schools.</p>
<p>So, if you like math contests, you are one of the best in the nation in your age group, and want to make that a center of your high school life, then Exeter is a reasonable top choice. If you simply like math, but like most middle school students have no idea what you want to do with your life, then Exeter is one of many places that will give you an excellent high school education.</p>
<p>Same comments about Andover and humanities, minus the formal competition element in the MO.</p>
<p>A fine post. I would add that there are more than 4 or 5 top math kids however. The cohort is top quality.</p>
<p>heehee =)</p>
<p>i think i like Groton the best because its sorta small - andover was a little too big for my taste and the kids there looked a little less studious, and the library was really loud...exeter i didnt get a chance to tour yet.</p>
<p>Also, for West Coast schools, Thacher, Cate, and Stevenson are considered some of the best.</p>
<p>Stevenson's campus looks amazing from the website. Right on the Pacific, it couldn't get any better. lol.</p>
<p>Stevenson is not in the same league as Thatcher and Cate academically. While the loation is nice, the campus is decidely unimpressive.</p>
<p>I went to Andover and love it dearly. It and Exeter are the most well known, largely because they are the biggest and have been most diverse for longest.</p>
<p>Among smaller schools I love SPS and Peddie and think the education matches that of any school at both.</p>
<p>Close, actually take out Taft and Peddie and add Middlesex and Groton and you have prepreview top 10. I do have a copy if antbody would like it e-mailed. Sorry, this was in regards to Jonathan's list.</p>
<p>prepparent, do you have a copy of the top world prep schools, top canadian prep schools, or top day schools?</p>
<p>I have the top 50 world wide and the top US schools</p>