<p>^bahahahahaha. </p>
<p>middlesex: awesometastic.</p>
<p>Yes, Hotchkiss is liberal. My son, who just finished his first year at THS, loves everything about this great school, except for one thing: it is too politically liberal. That said, I’m sure that there are other kids at this school who find it too conservative. In the end, I have to think that THS is no more liberal or conservative than most of the other top NE prep schools. That said, I would state that, in my opinion, these schools, when compared to many other schools around the country, are liberal. So, if we are describing Hotchkiss as liberal, then I believe we should describe Exeter, Andover, St. Paul’s, Groton, etc. as liberal. If so described, then “liberal” is really not a feature that distinquishes one top New England BS from another, IMHO, and, therefore, it adds very little to the conversation.</p>
<p>Andover: Awesome.</p>
<p>^^I wouldn’t describe THS as conservative or liberal in the political sense being that its a high school and one, from what i can tell, that’s not v. [umm] imposing politically. But more as liberal or conservative in its say… behaviors and general feel. Like Hippies v. …Ultra Conservative places [like a secluded church in the middle of Texas on a ranch]</p>
<p>I think that most schools that one will find in NE will be kind of in the middle. I don’t think we could say they are liberal nor are they conservative. Which is the point here. Like Rad said about conservative, liberal would be some Vegan hippy school in Cal. Is THS either of these two things? No. It falls into the category that most schools do; neither liberal nor conservative, in the political sense</p>
<p>Lol Rad in Plaid to post #60!!!</p>
<p>The whole liberal vs. Conservative actually depends on your point of view. Many southners (moi) would view the whole NE boarding school scene as liberal (not just in the political scence), although I just kind of ignore it. I cannot comment on Hotchkiss specifically. However, when your up north many of these schools seem to be in the middle as cutedida said, because they have people from all over.</p>
<p>It depends on the school, but in general the faculty are quite liberal, most of them jailing from NE themselves. In my experience [at middlesex], there are more republicans than you’d think by virtue of the fact that many students are quite wealthy. And of course there are people from all over. Socially though, most are liberal.</p>
<p>Instead of using liberal, I also think a lot of people are very tolerant. Though one person really be a republican, I think something that a lot of people like about the top boarding schools in NE (can’t comment on others, haven’t seen them) is that this republican doesn’t care if his best friend is democratic, apart from most people being quite liberal, in the political sense. I think they really are somewhere in the middle in the political sense, and I think everyone is quite liberal in general. Of course though, it depends which kid you look at, because most boarding schools want to create diversity</p>
<p>What about Blair? Anyone able to give a description?</p>
<p>bump Bump Bump</p>
<p>Deerfield: Preppy, Sports, Uniform, Terrific Academics
Andover: Casual-Down to Earth, Smart, Big, Intellectual yet Fun
Exeter: Elitist-Stuffy, Smart, Big, Harkness
Hotchkiss: Challenging Academics, Isolated location, Beautiful Campus, Golf Course
St Pauls: Beautiful Campus, Great Academics, Isolated-Bubble, Concorde sucks
Choate: Artsy, Beautiful Campus, Big, Challenging Academics
Lawrenceville: House System, Princeton, Academically challenging, Harkness, Beautiful
Milton: 50% Day Students, Great Academics, Nice Campus
Groton: Traditional, Academically challenging, Nice Campus, Uniform
Loomis Chaffee: Nurturing, Beautiful Campus, Rising Academics, School to watch
Peddie: Paranoid about 2nd Tier staus, Great Academics, Average Location, Technology
Concorde Academy: Artsy, Progressive, Great Academics, Small, Nurturing</p>
<p>Blair Academy: Beautiful buildings, Nurturing, Academics good but not very challenging like the top 10 B Schools</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what’s so elitist about Exeter?</p>
<p>Just Prepveteran’s perspective, markalex. Note a similar, recent Prepveteran post from the Andover/Exeter thread:</p>
<p>“Hands down Andover is the better choice unless you want a stuffy elitist environment like Exeter. The Harkness table is a great part of Exeters teaching philosophy and it is a great method.”</p>
<p>This isn’t one of those build on the old post threads–it would be more interesting if it was, and we could see all the various perspectives posted together.</p>
<p>Is Deerfield liberal, too?</p>
<p>I think Taft is conservative (politically). They have a Republican club (i don’t think a democrat one though), and a conservative newspaper. Also, one of my dads friends gave me their Winter 2011 bulletin, and there was an article, “Mr. Republican” in it. It was about Robert A. Taft. If Taft is liberal, I don’t think they would include an article like this, and they would probably try to hide these things.</p>
<p>@Prepschooler2011: I don’t really think you can infer much from the fact that Taft would publish an article about a relative of the founder who happened to be a Republican. As for the balance of student clubs, while there is a Republican club, there are quite a number that would likely appeal to students with a left of center political orientation. Here’s the link:</p>
<p>[Taft</a> Students - Clubs/Activities](<a href=“http://www.taftschool.org/students/clubs.aspx]Taft”>http://www.taftschool.org/students/clubs.aspx)</p>
<p>Curious about your last sentence though; you really think liberals would act so Orwellian?</p>
<p>Prepschooler…the adjective is Democratic. Or were you trying to be an idiot?</p>
<p>^^^Completely unprovoked, unnecessary rudeness…</p>
<p>No doubt about it.</p>