<p>Ya thats what it kind of sounds like to me. I think the place is amazing, but I think all my boarding schools are amazing so thats not saying much lol. Not sure if I would handle the ostentatiousness of SOME exonians though.</p>
<p>yay! glad you liked it, Izzy.
and yeah the teachers are more lenient on freshmen in their fall term (because most of us are still getting used to the fact that we <em>gasp</em> now actually have to do our own laundry or remember to put it downstairs so that the cleaning service will take it once a week...and i've forgotten the last two weeks. meaning i have no clothing. fml.), but even though they're being relatively easy on us, there's still a ton of stress.</p>
<p>and NO! Not having as much work doesn't automatically mean that you're inferior or anything, and I doubt that more than 5% of us (about 2 a grade? or something like that) believe anything like that. A lot of the kids who show up as new lowers, uppers, seniors, and pgs sometimes completely own the returning students (who's been through Exeter's hard curriculum for a year already) so even if some people believe it now, I'm pretty sure they'll get one heck of a smack in the face once the next year comes and the new students show up.
But I'm pretty sure that Exeter's education does surpass that of a lot of other schools. (Take my old school as a prime example) 4 years there and 4 years at Exeter is going to make one heck of a huge difference, and that's exactly why I came here.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>yeh, my public school teaches common knowledge things,the only time i dont get a 100 on things is if i made and error, not that i dont know it. the only class thats remotely challenging is the class i take over at the high school. i want a challlenge and i want other intelligent people, not just the one other smart kid in my grade.</p>
<p>ickleronniekins, I know that Exeter is better than a lot of schools (ex. public schools), but my point was that I don't think that they get necessarily more work than other HADES school.</p>
<p>While taking us to the library, my tour guide at Exeter said, "oh, and just so you're ready, we get a lot more work than any other schools. You said you were applying to Andover, right? Yeah, Exeter is a lot harder."</p>
<p>Not a smart thing to say. My mom, who was on the tour, graduated from Andover, and she just started giving our tour guide this look as if he was from some other planet... I thought he was being a little OTT as well. I mean how can you POSSIBLY know? No one attends both schools at the same time, and not everyone takes the same level of courses at both schools. From my visit, I got the feeling that those depressive, antisocial, exhausted kids at Exeter had a superiority complex!</p>
<p>Sorry for the Exeter bashing. I'm an applicant and I'd be overjoyed to get into Exeter or any of the other schools I applied to. I don't go to Exeter and don't really have the authority to judge its student body, but I just think it would be a good idea to stop giving off a vibe of supposed superlativeness. Clearly it rubs off on applicants</p>
<p>Our interviewer told us the workload is "manageable."</p>
<p>TomTheCat, if your tour guide personally knew a student that attended Andover, and he was familiar with the amount of homework students were receiving, then it is fair to make a statement like that.</p>
<p>Haha, no it's not. As I said, courses vary in difficulty and level - each school has multiple classes on different levels of difficulty and breadth.</p>
<p>And, of course, it DEPENDS ON THE STUDENT. You can work your hardest, you can do the bare minimum, or you can just downright procrastinate. All of those things affect your perception of the amount of work you have. This is like the whole EC thing we talked about on my decisions thread. It all depends on the way you pitch it.</p>
<p>I don't necessarily think that the quality of academics at a school should be measured by work load but rather by performance on standardized test (not SAT's or ACT's) but AP's. </p>
<p>^
I know that was irrelevant, but I just wanted to make sure that people weren't judging a school by how rigorous it is.</p>
<p>TomTheCat, I agree. The work load is what you make it to be. You can take all AP's or standard classes. You can work your ass off, or you can procrastinate and blow off assignments...</p>
<p>I agree with TomtheCat and Bigred</p>
<p>There's no way to know who has the most work. In MY opinion it just looks like Exeter students have a proclivity to want to show off work load. Maybe andover students or SPS students don't feel the need to mention just how hard the schools are because they have better things to do after they finish all that work, well, something better than talking about how hard all the work was.</p>
<p>idk though just my opinion, all these schools are great. I don't think one can possibly be OBVIOUSLY better in such a broad topic like education and work load.</p>
<p>Can we not bash any schools? Because, when it comes down to it, I'm sure all of us would be ecstatic if we got into ANY school. So don't bash a school unless you get accepted to and plan to attend its rival!</p>
<p>I haven't seen any "bashing" from this thread. If you consider any of this bashing or thing we wouldn't all be overjoyed to get into exeter your crazy lol.</p>
<p>bleh. 10char</p>
<p>Ugh. Sorry krncowlovar - I know PEA isn't always all it's cracked up to be. It certainly can be a miserable place. But, speaking from experience, you will get through it -and the feeling of relief that swoops down come senior spring will make it all worth it...</p>
<p>I'm going to Conserve School right now in Wisconsin, and I love it. There are a few kids who don't enjoy it, but it's pretty friggin' sweet most of the time.</p>
<p>Everyone hates boarding school at some point or another. Sometimes it's amazing, sometimes it's okay, sometimes it sucks and you just want to get out of there. But it's worth it in the end and you miss it way more than you think you're going to once you're gone.</p>
<p>Okay.
Here's the deal.
I know krncowlovar personally.. :)
and I completely understand her point.</p>
<p>To be honest, though.
I don't think she's going through that much (compared to other that I know)</p>
<p>I enjoy my life here, but sometimes the stress and workload becomes overwhelming.
Exeter recommends all the teachers to give approximately 50 minutes of hw a night.
And five classes a day
so 5 hours of homework, but most teachers don't give full fifty minutes.</p>
<p>I really enjoy life here, and as long as your parents leave you alone (in which mine aren't doing), you'll do fine. Set reasonable goals for yourself.</p>
<p>anybody wanna resurrect the whiner thread???</p>
<p>This person just has a beef against Exeter and should take it out elsewhere</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>the way everyone on this thread talks about it it seems like bs is the funnest part of their life
could a current or alum of a bs expand on that?</p>