<p>@goo</p>
<p>lol, nice one… So if Choate is as rigorous as Exeter/Andover, why is it excluded from HADES?</p>
<p>My theory is that HADES was created because 1) the people who made it were very biased towards those schools and 2) HADES makes a good acronym and schools with names like Choate or Groton doesn’t fit in. When people say HADES schools they most likely mean schools that are in the same calibre as the HADES like Choate.</p>
<p>“HADES” was invented by a Hotchkiss kid on this forum a couple of years ago. If you ever used the term in the real life prep school world, no one would know what you were talking about.</p>
<p>so, whose excited to come to Choate?</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification. I know I am!!! High School seems so far away</p>
<p>it (vague pronoun referring to: high school…Choate is extremely focused on grammar the first two years haha) will be here sooner than you can imagine.</p>
<p>It (going off to HS, TEAK has trained me with vague pronouns :p) just feels so unrealistic and light years away! And question, you see how Exeter is more math/science oriented and Andover is more humanities? What would you say Choate is more oriented at? I’m more of Math and History. Haha, I’m a weird hybrid, I never met anyone else with my interests (off topic)</p>
<p>I don’t want to say that Choate is “art-oriented” but its art program is very well-known and very well-developed. Choate spent a lot of its endowment to building the art center as well as fostering the arts programs. This (personal reference error, I know but I don’t care school is over for me) doesn’t mean that it is specifically arts concentrated, just saying that its arts is very established (a lot of other schools have recognized this as well).</p>
<p>I think Choate’s science is very good too. It offers a ton of advanced courses and a chance to study and research science on a graduate-level in the Science Research Program that is available to sixteen selected students. Overall, if you look at the list of programs that Choate provides for its students: </p>
<p>[Choate</a> Rosemary Hall: Academics » Signature Academic Programs](<a href=“http://www.choate.edu/academics/specialacademicopp.aspx]Choate”>http://www.choate.edu/academics/specialacademicopp.aspx)</p>
<p>You will notice that students of all kinds of interests can find higher education in their fields. </p>
<p>You’re interested in Math? Choate provides courses beyond Calculus like Multivariable Calculus and Game Theory, and having taken the former, I know that I would have never gotten a chance to further my studies in math without Choate. Choate’s math team is also great, winning New Englands championships yearly and I believe we beat Andover and Exeter in the Harvard-MIT math competition this year. </p>
<p>History wise, I think Choate has a solid history department. I know for Juniors, there is a selective program called American Studies that is for very advanced and passionate history buffs, and many people who have taken it tell me it’s a great course.</p>
<p>Choate is also great at Econ. We have won state Econ competitions consecutively for a while now.</p>
<p>I would say it IS art-oriented, and that’s another reason I chose Choate, being a thespian and all :D, but I was looking for an academic based answer, which I found. Basically, its all-around school, supporting the academic strength of each individual.</p>
<p>The math department must be incredibly strong if you guys beat A/E. I’m looking forward to see what Choate has in store for me. I’ve NEVER (not trying to sound cocky) been challenged in math, coming for public school and all. But not even in the prestigious program I go to challenged me much. </p>
<p>And I found the history a little easy. My revisit student “shadowee” was a 10th grader, and he was taking World History. They were covering WWI went I went on my revisit day and found myself answering most of the questions. Is there a sequence in History like in Math? How will they know where to place me? My history teacher told me that she had to recommend a course on the History Teacher Questionnaire and since she wasn’t familiar with the course load, she couldn’t decipher whether to put me in Honors or not, she didn’t feel qualified and she included that. We’ve completed US History. What comes after that?</p>
<p>I have no idea what history is like for freshmen because I am a new sophomore, but I think for your sophomore year, the school will recommend you take World History Honors (or you might even take this course as a sophomore, I don’t see why not) so that you can hone your World History knowledge before the AP World History that you can opt to take (many of my friends have, like swampedwithwork) if you haven’t already. You can take American Studies in your junior year like I talked about, but that’s much later. And they might also do the same thing for APUSH since you’ve already taken the course so that you can take APUSH test in May. Since you have taken so much history already, I think they’ll let you take US history you sophomore year (someone I know is doing that).</p>
<p>Hope that helps</p>
<p>And I said that I didn’t want to say Choate is arts oriented because it’s not an obvious arts-concentrated school like Putney School is, but still just as strong. Choate is not AS well known for its arts as Exeter is with math or Andover is with humanities.</p>
<p>Yeahh, helped tons :D</p>
<p>APUSH?</p>
<p>Advanced Placement US History.</p>
<p>Any current Choate students please chime in and about the math levels. I am in geometry now and will take the math placement test. I don’t know whether to list Algebra 2, Accelerated Algebra 2 or Honors Algebra 2. What is the difference between regular, accelerated and honors?</p>
<p>Does anyone currently take two foreign languages? I have been taking two foreign languages for many years and would like to continue with both but don’t want to overload my first year or miss out taking electives with my new 3rd form classmates.</p>
<p>Any advice is welcome. Thanks-</p>
<p>Regular is regular, as you can guess. Accelerated covers more topics that regular, and honors covers even more. If you feel like you aren’t very good at math, take regular. If you feel that you are good at math, take the honors. And if you find that too hard for you, you can drop to accelerated before mid-terms. </p>
<p>What two languages do you take? I took French to the 3rd level and Latin to the 2nd level before coming to Choate as a new sophomore, and I stuck with French. I would suggest that instead of occupying your sixth course with another language, you should try to take courses for graduation requirements like World Religions, Contemporary Issues, or Global Science which are all one term courses. Many freshmen do this to get the requirements out of the way so that by your junior-senior year you can take courses you like without worrying about whether Choate will let you graduate or not.</p>
<p>I currently take two languages and yes, it is difficult. I have not yet filled my graduation requirements for global studies and religion but plan on doing so between next year and senior year. Taking two languages is a rewarding experience but taking another language as a 6th class is difficult, especially at choate. I took my second language as a sixth class this year and I can assure you I had more work than the regular sophomore. With this being said, I would never have changed my corse selection and truly am happy with the decision I made to take 2 languages.</p>
<p>Course* I apologize…it’s late haha</p>
<p>Yes listen to yellow22^</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. Have either of you studies abroad with Choate?</p>
<p>So, people have recognized me on CC at Choate, and it’s gotten to an unhealthy point where an unnecessary number of people have started to comment on my internet life. I hope your questions are answered everyone, but I think I will say goodbye to this thread and PSA. Looking forward to meet everyone next year.</p>
<p>-goothebear</p>