<p>2010 Hopeful, haha, it’s okay. Trust me, I would love to do an on-campus interview (if I could).</p>
<p>@2010 hopeful: yeah im not sure whats going on…but it seems Choate has been really sloppy this year. First, days before decisions came out, my grandfather looked online and it said that i had gotten accepted and showed the accepted video and everything…when in reality i got waitlisted:/. Second, I did get into the summer program, but whereas schedules were supposed to come out monday, none did. We finally did get my schedule after my grandfather emailed and requested it. So i’m not sure…lol</p>
<p>Can I just say that every time I’m mentioned on this site, and I see it, a little part of me goes “awwww SQUEE!”</p>
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<li><p>It can be, if you’re not an athletics person. The only restriction on your academic schedule would be a certain amount of arts credits before you graduate- for theatre, you’d HAVE to take Acting I and II, and maybe another elective I’m not familiar with. Trust me, you’ll have plenty of other academic classes to take, outside of your concentration. But you will only be allowed to participate in ONE sport in a year.</p></li>
<li><p>I LOVE THE DINING HALL. The food is crap a lot of times, but you WILL spend good times in there. Sometimes, they have movies set up while you eat, with a sundae bar! (Pretty rare, but still worth mentioning). You have a period set aside for lunch every day, which is 50 minutes like every other block (period, same thing, different name). You do not have to be there, unless it is Community Lunch (bleh!). If you do not have a free period during the three lunch blocks (D, E, and F) you can pick up a bag lunch to bring to your class. Community Lunch has assigned seating, it’s twice a week. I avoided it all year with labs and music lessons. Dinner is pretty free-for-all. Sports have very different schedules, so kids go to dinner whenever they can. From 5:15 to 7:30, the dining hall will have students running in and out, plus students sitting there for the entire two hours.</p></li>
<li><p>You can leave campus WHENEVER. Even during the school day. You cannot, however, leave the town of Wallingford without permission from your deans and parents, depending on what permission slips your parents sign before you go to school in the fall. If your family is within walking distance, you could visit them during a double free lunch block, or before sports, or after dinner, or (if they’re REALLY close) during break, between study hours.</p></li>
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<p>Choate is great, but tough. I was begging for summer break by the time May came around. It’s HARD. But I got through it, pretty well, too. All Honors or AP courses next year. It’ll be tough, but I can do it. If you think you can handle it, GO FOR IT!</p>
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<p>Choate was experimenting with a new admissions system (both electronic and personal) and there were obvious bugs. It was pretty bad… But I was personally involved in testing the new admissions systems on the computer, and all in all, I think it’s a positive step.</p>
<p>We were talking about the summer program application, not the school application.</p>
<p>I thought the school application was actually really easy to use, and it saved a lot of paper. It wasn’t that bad. I liked some of the essay questions more so than some other schools. I felt like there was more room to explain yourself and talk about your extracurriculars.</p>