<p>what exactly is prep school? sorry i go to a public high school and so don't really know about this whole thing</p>
<p>do u apply from like 8th grade??? or go after ur traditional high school? please explain!!!</p>
<p>prep school is basically...like mini college. most students apply in their 8th grade year, similar to applying to cllege your senior year of high schoool. a lot of students enter as sophomores as well, and a tiny few as juniors. a select few enter as PG (post grads) for various reasons, could be athletics, academics, not getting into your top choice college- who knows.</p>
<p>prep school normally has a more rigorous required coarseload then public schools and at one point or another most prep schools require one to play a competitive interscholastic sport.</p>
<p>ooh..the only real knowledge of prep school that I have is from the book A Separate Peace by Knowles</p>
<p>and from what ive read on cc about andover and phillips exeter</p>
<p><a href="http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/</a></p>
<p>smder99, there are many wonderful boarding schools. This web site may be a helpful start. Good Luck!</p>
<p>yea, a separate piece is perhaps one of my least favorite prep school esque books. that and black ice. </p>
<p>there are a lotttt of boarding prep schools, and andover and exeter are only 2 of them. many are quite different- andover and exeter are the most prestigious. basically the harvard and....harvard of prep schools.</p>
<p>Andover and Exeter are the most well-known, but aren't really the most prestigious. St. Paul's, Deerfield, Milton, and Groton are probably slightly more prestigious.</p>
<p>Prep schools are usually thought of here on CC as only meaning boarding schools, but there are many private (independent) prep schools that are day schools only and are excellent and should also be included in the prep school category here.</p>
<p>I have to disagree with davida on the prestige thing, but I think that once you get to a certain level of school, the difference in education and prestige isn't really all that great. They offer very different experiences, however. In terms of college, it won't necessarily give you much of a leg up going to Milton vs. Andover, example. It's not the 60s anymore, when more than 3/4 of the classes at some boarding schools ended up in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>When you speak prestige/elite, the original schools were the St. Grotosex Schools. In todays age there are many boarding schools that would be considered prestigous/elite, rarefied air. These schools are both large and small. They are the schools of the "ISL"(Groton Middlesex, SPS etal, ""MAPL" (Blair, Peddie,L'ville, Mercersburg etal "The Ten Schools" (A, AE, Deerfield, Choate, Loomis Hotchiss etall). Additionally you have St. Andrews, Episcopal, etal. Then we have a number of all girls schools (Emma, MPS, Westover) etall. And others.
Now I assure all these schools are in rarefied air, prestigous, elite. In the end all these schools are so very close with regard to academic potential, it's alomost moot to even discuss this. It would seem that each school offers quite different atmosphere and each student should concentrate on what fits them best. When they find this fit, the college of their dreams will follow.</p>
<p>yes-</p>
<p>just like colleges, it is important to not judge people based solely on high school. or anyother criteria for that matter- i go to a boarding school that isnt that presitigios although i waas accepted to prestigious ones and it gets tiring to be judged when i like my school better than the "better" one</p>