<p>does anyone know if going to a boarding school effects your chances of getting into college? ive been going to a boarding school in PA for all 4 years of high school and was wondering if it would help at all.</p>
<p>anyone have any thoughts?</p>
<p>lots of them are nationally well known and are the best high schools in the country. your education is considered better if you went to Deerfield, Hotchkiss, or Choate as opposed to Compton High School</p>
<p>I agree with the previous posts, except for the part on Compton High School. They send more kids to the Ivy Leagues than any other school in the nation.</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>Where is Compton HIgh? Compton Calif?</p>
<p>I looked at attending boarding schools, talked to friends at Choate, Andover and the Hill School and have talked with a lot of admissions officers and the general consensus is this:</p>
<p>-Many boarding schools offer a quality education
-A lot of kids go to top schools from boarding schools because a lot of kids from top schools apply to top schools. They are far more likely to apply and apply to Ivies etc. at a higher porportion than regular students. An officer from one of the nation's most elite unversities explained it this way: "we accept a lot of kids from those type of schools because we a ton of applicants from those schools"
-Many athletes go to boarding schools to boost their academics before going to top universities
-Boarding schools obviously tend to draw from more affluent circles than the average high schoo and students can often afford tuition at universities that others cannot
-every major college will tell you "challenge yourself as hard as you can at whereever you attend school, we don't compare some kid coming from a boarding school to a kid coming from an urban high school to a kid coming from a middle-class suburban high school."
-Nowadays many boarding schools are selective enough that they already have a well-qualified student body</p>
<p>In the old days, boarding schools and other private schools were considered "feeder schools". That is no longer the case.</p>
<p>"In the old days, boarding schools and other private schools were considered "feeder schools". That is no longer the case."</p>
<p>They may not be "feeder schools" as in the old days...those were the days when they sent most of theirs grads to HYP.</p>
<p>However, today's top boarding schools like Andover and Milton still send 30% to 40% of their grads to the Ivies.</p>
<p>Typically the top boarding schools have more resources (e.g., more AP courses, small class size, more personal college counseling, etc.) which give you the edge... for your money.</p>
<p>My high school has classes of 10 students, extremely personal college counseling, and instead of AP courses, students take actual college courses at Boston University. Most people graduate with BU GPAs of 3.7 (A-) or above. So we should all get into every school we apply to, right?</p>
<p>Wrong. Of our ten graduating classes (of 20-30 people each), one student has gotten into Yale, one into Princeton, three into Harvard, five into Penn, and three into Dartmouth. (Thirteen got into Chicago, and ten into Brownthe one Ivy that likes us.)</p>
<p>If Andover and Milton didn't have some special status just for being Andover and Milton, how come 10 students from my school don't get into HYP every year?</p>
<p>You didn't read my post properly... I was saying that the top boarding schools are still feeders to the Ivies, though not in the same way as the good old days.</p>
<p>GPA and test scores can only get you so far... They are not the only factors considered by the top colleges. Most of the applicants to HYP have excellent numbers. I read somewhere that Harvard rejected 80% of the valedictorians that applied. Colleges are looking to build a well rounded freshman class, and there are certain qualities they are looking for. And then there are other factors, like diversity, and yeah legacy...</p>
<p>You didn't read mine properly You said that "typically the top boarding schools have more resources", but I think prestige has much more to do with it than any resources they have.</p>
<p>does anyone know if the admissions take into account that students from a boarding school might have a lower gpa becuase the grading scale is harder? i know at my old public school i got staight a's easily but now that is definatly not the case</p>
<p>One key reason the person from boarding school is going to get into a better college is because the boarding school has already done some of the selecting. Not just any student will accepted to Andover or Milton and even at times students who may get accepted to HYPMS are not admitted to these top boarding schools. The overall peformance of the students at top boarding schools is better, so the overall acceptance to competitive colleges will be substantially better.</p>