Boarding School Supplies ('09)

Prep School Admissions
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<p>don’t buy your stuff at walmart. please…</p>

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<p>Quote from Saer
I looove Macbooks. My mom bought one a few months ago, the new one (the $1300 version) and I’m getting the upgrade, the $1500 version, because she promised. She told me, “Well, seeing as I don’t have to pay any tuition, I guess I can get you a nice laptop”.</p>

<p>I hope your mom really wants a Macbook, and this is her way of getting the very nice $1300 version for herself! Because functionally, upgrading isn’t at all necessary, you’ve got a great computer already!</p>

<p>I’d add to your list some Choate Blue and/or yellow nail polish.</p>

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<p>Wait, maybe with have a different understanding of egg crates, but why do you want to bring one?</p>

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<p>My mom is taking graduate classes to get an administrative degree (she’s been a teacher for over 12 years) and she needed a laptop for her classes, and simply wanted one. That laptop is not mine, and I’m typically not allowed to use it, let alone take it 9 months out of the year or call it mine.
I’m getting the $1500 version because of the upgrade in harddrive and RAM would be useful because I use photo-and-video-editing softward, such as iMovie and Photoshop, and use a lot of memory like that. My uncle, who works as an techie for Cornell and I like to think knows his stuff, suggested it, and I like the idea :)</p>

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<p>I misread your first message, I thought the other Mac was yours! The latest Mac is beautiful.</p>

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<p>Yeahh, is it worth it to bring an egg chair or something comfy like that?</p>

<p>Or rugs?</p>

<p>And do you guys know if the sheets needed are twin XL or just the normal twin-sized bedsheets?</p>

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<p>Not hospital egg crates, regular egg crates.
You can get them at linens and things.</p>

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<p>yeah, i was thinking about that. I want to bring a sphere chair or something cool like that.</p>

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<p>I would wait until you see the size of your dorm to buy furniture.</p>

<p>Choate says its mattresses are twin size.</p>

<p>I looove the latest Mac. Sexy.</p>

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<p>I still don’t know what you mean by egg crate! With my family it means the same thing as a milk crate…those ugly plastic green boxes that you can pick up from the local grocery store. :smiley: </p>

<p>Wow…</p>

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<p>It’s a mattress pad. :)</p>

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<p>Really? </p>

<p>Ah. That explains a lot. I guess, if I make it next year, adapting might be odd coming from Idaho and all…</p>

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<p>i found this site on a older thread- thought i would pass on the wisdom
dormbuys.com
its mostly geared for college students, but a lot of the things they sell are useful for us prep school kids too!</p>

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<p>great site!</p>

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<p>question: do the schools give you a list of supplies (notebooks, comp books, etc.) that you need? obviously they give you the textbooks and everything, but the other misc. supplies?</p>

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<p>^Most schools don’t give you textbooks. You have to buy them at their bookstore. All the supplies you mentioned would be available at the bookstore too.</p>

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<p>well, right of course you have to pay, but i mean they give you a list of what is required.</p>

<p>thanks.</p>

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<p>WOO. My laptop is coming soon! My mom ordered it through my uncle and it’ll be coming soon. We got a discount on it, too, so that I can get the phone I want, too!</p>

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<p>Are the textbooks college text (Or is that only for AP courses?) or the same as public schools where it’s all big font and there are lots of pictures?
Why do you HAVE to buy them if you’re only going to be using them for one year. It’s kinda like a waste of money. It’s not like you’re in college yet and not like you’re going to be using the book again. Are you still able to buy the books from upperclassmen or Ebay, et cetera?</p>

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<p>tiger:
They have a variety of textbooks. Some courses require college texts, some high school texts, some not at all. The biology students I saw in a Starbucks at Andover were using the same textbook I am using right now at my public school.
You HAVE to buy them because you WILL be using them in class. There are many options to save money and cut costs. Try buying them from Amazon, or used, to save money when buying them. And then at the end of the year, your school may have a buyback program or you can sell them on ebay/Amazon.</p>