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prepparent · November 12, 2006, 6:44pm

American College Preparatory Boarding School Ranking
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2005 American College Preparatory Boarding School Ranking
Based on Percent Matriculation to Ivy League + MIT and Stanford Universities

Notable Alumni in Politics, Government and Public Service

Global Top 50 Boarding Schools Ranking
American Top 30 Boarding Schools Ranking British Top 30 Boarding Schools Ranking
Canadian Top 10 Boarding Schools Ranking
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Rank Preparatory
Boarding Schools Location SAT School Mean SAT 1 St. Paul's School
NH 40% 6 unranked 2 Milton Academy
MA 32% 7 unranked 3 Groton School
MA 31% 3 unranked Phillips Andover Academy
MA 31% 13 3 13 20 16 - 1350 5 Noble & Greenough School
MA 29% 14 unranked 6 Phillips Exeter Academy
NH 28% 15 4 19 16 8 1365 7 Deerfield Academy
MA 27% 16 unranked 8 Hotchkiss School
CT 25% 18 unranked 9 Middlesex School
MA 24% 11 unranked 10 Lawrenceville School
NJ 23% 19 unranked 11 Choate Rosemary Hall
CT 20% unranked unranked 12 Thacher School
CA 21%^ 18% unranked 13 Hockaday School
TX 20%^ 16% unranked 14 Taft School
CT 18% unranked unranked 15 Webb School
CA 15%^ 15% unranked Loomis Chaffee School
CT 15% unranked unranked St. Andrew's School
DE 15% unranked unranked Northfield Mount Hermon School
MA 15% unranked unranked Cranbrook Schools
MI 15% unranked unranked 20 Cate School
CA 13% unranked unranked 21 Concord Academy
MA 12% unranked unranked St. George's School
RI 12% unranked unranked Miss Porter's School
CT 12% unranked unranked Emma Willard School
NY 12% unranked unranked Peddie School
NJ 12% unranked unranked 26 Kent School
CT 11% unranked unranked 27 Episcopal High School
VA 10% unranked unranked Woodberry Forest School
VA 10% unranked unranked Georgetown Preparatory
MD 10% unranked unranked 30 St. Mark's School
MA 8%-10% unranked IVY+MIT Stanford Harvard Rank Top 20 MIT Rank Top 10 Yale Rank Top 20 Stanford Rank Top 20 Princeton Rank Top 20 Median SAT School Mean
Public Mean SAT State Board Grade Board Age 2004 Tuition Boarding School Type
7 12 11 1345 - 1026 1043 9 - 12 14-18 $31,125 Coed Board Only
15 19 unranked - 1340 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $29,275 Coed Board Day
12 unranked 5 1360 - 1030 1041 8 - 12 13-18 $33,930 Coed Board Day
1030 1041 9 - PG 14-19 $30,100 Coed Board Day
14 unranked 4 - 1310 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $29,300 Coed Board Day
- 1026 1043 9 - PG 14-19 $30,000 Coed Board Day
17 unranked 14 1330 - 1030 1041 9 - PG 14-19 $29,960 Coed Board Day
18 unranked unranked - 1300 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $29,925 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked 1320 - 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $32,800 Coed Board Day
20 18 11 - 1340 1013 1015 9 - PG 14-19 $30,335 Coed Board Day
16 unranked unranked 1300 - 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $31,590 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked 9 unranked - 1320 1005 1020 9 - 12 14-18 $31,250 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked 5 unranked - 1280 988 972 8 - 12 13-18 $28,920 Girls' Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - 1290 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $31,000 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked 8 unranked - 1310 1005 1020 9 - 12 14-18 $29,300 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - - 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $30,900 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - 1290 955 989 9 - 12 14-18 $29,000 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - - 1030 1041 9 - PG 14-19 $30,300 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked 1270 - 1131 1136 9 - 12 14-18 $27,930 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked 1280 - 1005 1020 9 - 12 14-18 $31,500 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked 1350 - 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $31,985 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - 1260 991 1005 9 - 12 14-18 $30,000 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - - 1016 1030 9 - 12 14-18 $31,500 Girls' Board Day
unranked unranked unranked 1280 - 993 997 9 - PG 14-19 $31,200 Girls' Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - - 1015 1015 8 - PG 14-19 $30,400 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked 1290 - 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $31,900 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - - 1019 1024 9 - 12 14-18 $29,300 Coed Board Day
unranked unranked unranked 1280 - 1019 1024 9 - 12 14-18 $28,400 Boys' Board Day
unranked unranked unranked - - 1017 1026 9 - 12 14-18 $31,270 Boys' Board Day
unranked unranked unranked unranked - 1270 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $31,900 Coed Board Day

NOTE: NOBLES is not a boarding school. It has something on the order of 10% boarders.
Jonathan, Here is the prepreview you were requesting. Caution: these numbers shown on this chart are outdated and have not changed in at least 3-4 years. I have updated some of the school which I’ll note here. The info is quite accurate; I have used a number of resources, including Peterson’s Independent school books, Web sites, and current view books ( “04-“05 and “05-“06). In some cases I used 4 year numbers instead of 5 year. In Deerfields case I used 5 year matric numbers with 4 year grad numbers. In this case I took an average of the 4 years to get the 5th year number. In the case of St. Paul’s I had all the ivies with 10 or more matrics. Columbia did not have at least 10 matrics so I assumed 9 matrics for Columbia. It may have been 0 or 1 and as high as 9. I chose 9…. Also note that Nobles is really a day school.

SPS ivy 4 years 158/534 30%, Ivy/ mit/ stan ~ 33%

Deerfield Ivy 5 years 270/945 29%
Groton IVY 5 years 108/396 27% I/M/S 29%

Middlesex IVY 5 years 99/420 24% I/M/S 25%

Hotchkiss 5 years Ivy 120/624 19% I/M/S 133/624 21%

Lawrenceville 5 years 253/1107 23%

Note: these will also have to be updated.

prepparent · November 12, 2006, 6:45pm

I have sent this info to you in the past. But here it is again.

American College Preparatory Boarding School Ranking
PrepReview.com Premium Content

2005 American College Preparatory Boarding School Ranking
Based on Percent Matriculation to Ivy League + MIT and Stanford Universities

Notable Alumni in Politics, Government and Public Service

Global Top 50 Boarding Schools Ranking
American Top 30 Boarding Schools Ranking British Top 30 Boarding Schools Ranking
Canadian Top 10 Boarding Schools Ranking
Endowment Ranking

Rank Preparatory
Boarding Schools Location IVY+MIT Stanford Harvard Rank Top 20 MIT Rank Top 10 Yale Rank Top 20 Stanford Rank Top 20 Princeton Rank Top 20 Median SAT School Mean
SAT School Mean SAT Public Mean SAT State Board Grade Board Age 2004 Tuition Boarding School Type
1 St. Paul's School
NH 40% 6 unranked 7 12 11 1345 - 1026 1043 9 - 12 14-18 $31,125 Coed Board Only
2 Milton Academy
MA 32% 7 unranked 15 19 unranked - 1340 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $29,275 Coed Board Day
3 Groton School
MA 31% 3 unranked 12 unranked 5 1360 - 1030 1041 8 - 12 13-18 $33,930 Coed Board Day
Phillips Andover Academy
MA 31% 13 3 13 20 16 - 1350 1030 1041 9 - PG 14-19 $30,100 Coed Board Day
5 Noble & Greenough School
MA 29% 14 unranked 14 unranked 4 - 1310 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $29,300 Coed Board Day
6 Phillips Exeter Academy
NH 28% 15 4 19 16 8 1365 - 1026 1043 9 - PG 14-19 $30,000 Coed Board Day
7 Deerfield Academy
MA 27% 16 unranked 17 unranked 14 1330 - 1030 1041 9 - PG 14-19 $29,960 Coed Board Day
8 Hotchkiss School
CT 25% 18 unranked 18 unranked unranked - 1300 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $29,925 Coed Board Day
9 Middlesex School
MA 24% 11 unranked unranked unranked unranked 1320 - 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $32,800 Coed Board Day
10 Lawrenceville School
NJ 23% 19 unranked 20 18 11 - 1340 1013 1015 9 - PG 14-19 $30,335 Coed Board Day
11 Choate Rosemary Hall
CT 20% unranked unranked 16 unranked unranked 1300 - 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $31,590 Coed Board Day
12 Thacher School
CA 21%^ 18% unranked unranked unranked 9 unranked - 1320 1005 1020 9 - 12 14-18 $31,250 Coed Board Day
13 Hockaday School
TX 20%^ 16% unranked unranked unranked 5 unranked - 1280 988 972 8 - 12 13-18 $28,920 Girls' Board Day
14 Taft School
CT 18% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - 1290 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $31,000 Coed Board Day
15 Webb School
CA 15%^ 15% unranked unranked unranked 8 unranked - 1310 1005 1020 9 - 12 14-18 $29,300 Coed Board Day
Loomis Chaffee School
CT 15% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - - 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $30,900 Coed Board Day
St. Andrew's School
DE 15% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - 1290 955 989 9 - 12 14-18 $29,000 Coed Board Day
Northfield Mount Hermon School
MA 15% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - - 1030 1041 9 - PG 14-19 $30,300 Coed Board Day
Cranbrook Schools
MI 15% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked 1270 - 1131 1136 9 - 12 14-18 $27,930 Coed Board Day
20 Cate School
CA 13% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked 1280 - 1005 1020 9 - 12 14-18 $31,500 Coed Board Day
21 Concord Academy
MA 12% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked 1350 - 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $31,985 Coed Board Day
St. George's School
RI 12% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - 1260 991 1005 9 - 12 14-18 $30,000 Coed Board Day
Miss Porter's School
CT 12% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - - 1016 1030 9 - 12 14-18 $31,500 Girls' Board Day
Emma Willard School
NY 12% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked 1280 - 993 997 9 - PG 14-19 $31,200 Girls' Board Day
Peddie School
NJ 12% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - - 1015 1015 8 - PG 14-19 $30,400 Coed Board Day
26 Kent School
CT 11% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked 1290 - 1016 1030 9 - PG 14-19 $31,900 Coed Board Day
27 Episcopal High School
VA 10% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - - 1019 1024 9 - 12 14-18 $29,300 Coed Board Day
Woodberry Forest School
VA 10% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked 1280 - 1019 1024 9 - 12 14-18 $28,400 Boys' Board Day
Georgetown Preparatory
MD 10% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - - 1017 1026 9 - 12 14-18 $31,270 Boys' Board Day
30 St. Mark's School
MA 8%-10% unranked unranked unranked unranked unranked - 1270 1030 1041 9 - 12 14-18 $31,900 Coed Board Day

NOTE: NOBLES is not a boarding school. It has something on the order of 10% boarders.
Jonathan, Here is the prepreview you were requesting. Caution: these numbers shown on this chart are outdated and have not changed in at least 3-4 years. I have updated some of the school which Ill note here. The info is quite accurate; I have used a number of resources, including Petersons Independent school books, Web sites, and current view books ( 04-05 and 05-06). In some cases I used 4 year numbers instead of 5 year. In Deerfields case I used 5 year matric numbers with 4 year grad numbers. In this case I took an average of the 4 years to get the 5th year number. In the case of St. Pauls I had all the ivies with 10 or more matrics. Columbia did not have at least 10 matrics so I assumed 9 matrics for Columbia. It may have been 0 or 1 and as high as 9. I chose 9. Also note that Nobles is really a day school.

SPS ivy 4 years 158/534 30%, Ivy/ mit/ stan ~ 33%

Deerfield Ivy 5 years 270/945 29%
Groton IVY 5 years 108/396 27% I/M/S 29%

Middlesex IVY 5 years 99/420 24% I/M/S 25%

Hotchkiss 5 years Ivy 120/624 19% I/M/S 133/624 21%

Lawrenceville 5 years 253/1107 23%

Note: these will also have to be updated.

tommeister · November 13, 2006, 3:22pm

Milton is ranked higher than Andover and Exeter? That definitely wasn't the impression that I got when I visited these schools. Milton seemed like a good private day school, but Andover, Exeter, and SPS seemed to be in a completely different league.

Jonathan1 · November 13, 2006, 5:10pm

Thanks, prepparent. :)

jmlbo · November 13, 2006, 5:14pm

About Milton, the numbers cannot be disputed. If you mean by different league in terms of endowment or size of the campus, perhaps you have a point but in all other metrics (SAT, acceptance rates, matriculation), they are up there. The fact they are 50% boarding may be an issue to some (it may also skew the data) but friends who have children there could not be happier w/ the school. I had similar initial impression as you but from what I heard and saw, I think Milton is a top notch school. At the end of the day, it rally comes down to the fit so does this ranking really matter? I don't think equally impressive students being reviewed by Yale admissions will pick a student from SPS over lets say, Deerfield, because of this ranking.

system · November 13, 2006, 6:11pm

My mom has a good friend who is the Dir of Admissions at a good college and has been at another, one on each coast. This guy has guided my brother towards SPS and away from Deerfield. Maybe just his bias, but he claims that SPS produces great students more so than any school he's ever seen. What amazes me is there seems to be so little competitive pressure there, at least compared to Andover.

prepparent · November 14, 2006, 10:44am

Tommeister, if you look at old threads you will see that Milton % is currently around 20%. As I mentioned these are older numbers. Remember to try not to put too much emphasis on school matrics.

By the way suze, I have had discussions with 3 families who have kids at both MX and well maybe I will not discuss this after all. This may be better suited for PM.

prettyckitty · November 14, 2006, 10:54am

Milton Academy is a highly rank school. It's prestige is not that of Andover or Exeter, but it does land in the same pool. It has around 50% boarding, I think enough to make it officially a boarding school.

PurpoisePal · November 14, 2006, 12:30pm

Does anyone have the prepreview stats for Canadian boarding schools or just regular American day schools?

prepparent · November 14, 2006, 12:37pm

purpoisepal, I have the canadian schools that are ranked in the top 50 worldwide. I'll try and find them and send them off .

prepparent · November 14, 2006, 12:42pm

purpoisepal, here are the Canadian Schools ranked in the top 50 worldwide.

<h1>16 Upper Canada College</h1>

<h1>22 Bishop Strachan School</h1>

<h1>26 Havergal</h1>

<h1>36 Ashbury</h1>

<h1>37 St. George's</h1>

<h1>38 Appleby</h1>

PurpoisePal · November 14, 2006, 12:22pm

Thanks!

...I almost went to Bishop Strachan School. I didn't because they have daily morning mass and I'm Jewish. And I didn't want to take Canadian history. Or wear ties.

Beefcakeman · November 14, 2006, 1:43pm

I'm sorry but I have to say that as a student who goes to a boarding school that can be considered in the top 10; Exeter really is considered the best. #1. Students here know it and even teachers say it. To get a top 3 I'd probably say 1. Exeter
2. Andover
3. Deerfield

Anyway, those are just my thoughts from my experiences. It really is true that how good a school is should be how really be based on how well you feel you fit or feel comfortable in a school.

Cozmo · November 14, 2006, 2:00pm

I applied to Exeter having been told it was #1; as a 9th grader I wasn't yet familiarized with the "what's #1 for you may not be objectively #1" doctrine. So I applied to Exeter, and only to Exeter, without visiting anywhere else. It has worked out decently though, so hey. Many of these "top boarding schools" seem to have quite different characters, so I definitely believe that people should look around a little bit before going somewhere, to find what is best for them. Especially obvious with college apps now on my mind, as a senior.

edit: I don't know if Exeter is #1; what I always say, if someone from Andover is bickering or something like that, is "well I haven't gone to the other schools, so I couldn't say, but I think I like Exeter best -personally- from what little I've seen but other places are certainly sometimes better for other people."

prepparent · November 14, 2006, 2:20pm

beefcakeman, you certainly have an opinion. It's what makes these threads exciting. Certainly we can all agree that choosing a school should go beyond a ranking.

UCBAlum · August 15, 2007, 5:06pm

All of the rankings are somewhat subjective. The schools are very different in a number of ways and you have to find your niche. I chose St. Mark's because (i) it was small and intimate and (ii) I didn't get into Groton (still ****ed)!!! Academically, you will find a very similar experience at any of the traditionally top-tier schools but what will differ is the social/cultural experience. A place like St. Paul's has a good number of New Yorkers (and is, consequently a bit more sophisticated that Milton, for example). Schools like Groton, Hotchkiss, St. Mark's, Middlesex, tend to pick from a more self-selected applicant pool and do not attract the percentage of "non-traditional families" (prep school speak for non-rich) that you might find at a place like Andover, Exeter or even Choate. The latter schools have cast their nets a bit more wider than the former and they can, as a result of their size, absorb a more diverse group of students. A smaller school, like Groton, has to look for a "fit" because every student really counts. My own experience is that I had closer relationships with fellow classmates as well as the faculty as a result of being in a smaller school. In contrast, I went to a large university for college and will go to a big school for grad school. In short, the choice was a good one for me.

blairt · August 15, 2007, 8:53pm

this is something really silly that has REALLY got on my nerve this past year... i've been holding it in...

THACHER IS NOT SPELLED AS "THATCHER"

AHHHHHH! OK, done.

icy9ff8 · August 19, 2007, 2:19pm

Tier One: St. Paul's, Andover, Deerfield, Groton, Milton & Hotchkiss & United World College Tier Two: (listed alphabetically) Cate, Choate, Cranbrook Schools, Lawrenceville, Middlesex, Phillips Exeter, St. Andrew's, St. Georges & Thacher. Surprisingly, Exeter finished fifthteenth and barely made Tier Two. Exeter was rated based on college placements for 2004, 2005 & 2006 - which are posted on their website. Exeter also was the only boarding school with a significant # of unhappy students. St. Paul's, Deerfield & Andover were each rated based on the last six years college placements-- 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007. St. Paul,s, Deerfield, Andover & Groton were well above the rest of the twenty rated boarding schools.

hsmomstef · August 19, 2007, 2:32pm

icy9ff8 -- which UWC? there are multiple locations, buy only one in the US -- and I didn't think the one in the US had such a high college matriculation placement

icy9ff8 · August 19, 2007, 2:39pm

Rankings are only for matriculations to four year U.S. based colleges and universities from the most elite U.S. boarding schools.

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