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<p>as it is a "boarding" school, won't they have people from a lot of places?</p>
<p>i just dont understand why. My friend who went to high school with me...FREE public high school...got into UPenn, Dmouth, Gtown, N'western. Which is extremely more cost effective....as opposed to someone who pays hella lot for high school, only to get into the same schools.</p>
<p>Yeah, but not a lot of different incomes haha</p>
<p>Whatever, if that's your kind of thing, more power to you, but it definitely wouldn't be right for me. :)</p>
<p>Do you go to high school just to get accepted to a certain school? Hopefully not. Sometimes there's a difference between who actually does well once they're there and who doesn't.</p>
<p>well when most of these boarding school issues comes up, I dont seen people asking about social life and such</p>
<p>Prep schools are evil. They suck out your soul and hand it back to you during graduation.</p>
<p>Also, you learn so much more in boarding school and make much more important friends. </p>
<p>Mmm. There is economic diversity, there's racial diversity, and even regional diversity. </p>
<p>I <3 prep school, but I also hate it.</p>
<p>^What do you love about it, and what do you hate?</p>
<p>I love the education (obvs) the people (obvs) the fact that I'm living alone. </p>
<p>I hate, the work that comes from education, the people when they get *****y and teenage angst steps in, and the fact that I don't see my mom for 3 months at a time.</p>
<p>prep school is just for rich kids who need to go to a "superior" school just so that they have a chance to get into a "better" college. Its true that they will get you in, which is a sad fact. They are not better at educating people, but are a place where high income children, who are smarter and more harder working (don't argue this one it is all about genes, smarter parents have more money) are concentrated and thus the schools look better. Anyways how is an Ivy Leauge education any different from a top public education?</p>
<p>Is there something wrong with attending an Ivy League college?</p>
<p>If you're smart enough to go to an Ivy League school, then you can certainly do it through public school. Instead, your family pays more money than it takes to feed whole countries in Africa for a year for your education just to meet the same ends as if you had gone to public school.</p>
<p>I got into Phillips Exeter and chose to go to my local public school. Why? Because technology at my high school is better, you can recieve much more foreign language time, and you're not around snobby rich kids all the time. Good deal.</p>
<p>Why did you choose to apply to Exeter in the first place?^</p>
<p>Exeter is the best! What type of question is that!</p>
<p>The reason you go to an Ivy is because:</p>
<p>a) Probably more money - thus better facilities, resources etc. to further your academic/EC interests
b) Better global reputation - thus no lack of world-renowned professors wanting to come and teach, as well as an easier time getting a good job afterwards
c) Generally smaller than publics, therefore better teacher-student ratio, easier to get help/attention etc.
d) Ivys generally have higher standards than publics, meaning that you are more likely to be around motivated, driven students and thus in an environment conducive to learning and study</p>
<p>So, if you're smart enough to get into an Ivy League/private, and can afford it comfortably, do so.</p>
<p>By the way, which school is better - Exeter/Andover/Roxbury Latin?</p>
<p>Umm, Roxbury Latin doens't come close to Exeter/Andover. It just feeds a lot of kids to Harvard. </p>
<p>Also, Exeter/Andover depends on how you learn. Do you need to be dictated or do you learn from others and discussions. The first is Andover and the second is Exeter.</p>
<p>I think that a kid who graduates from RL would generally have more character than a kid who graduates from A/E. Not only that, but more than 1/6 kids there goes to Harvard, which is a pretty good deal. And the tuition is half the day tuition at A/E. I don't think RL even has a waitlist, which means that about all kids who are accepted have RL as their top choice.</p>
<p>i go to catholic school and 100% of the grads r going to college.</p>
<p>The problem with everyone hyping up Roxbury Latin's Harvard admissions is that it's not actually that great considering that the Dean of Harvard's admissions is on the Board of Trustees there. </p>
<p>"The senior admissions officer at Harvard spoke to students at Roxbury Latin last year, says Henry Seton, a recent graduate who will attend Harvard this fall. "It's an established tradition at my school that if you're a smart kid, you go to Harvard," Seton says. "The dean of Harvard College is our head trustee." "</p>
<p>If you want to laud RL's achievements, try talking about how it has the second highest SATs in America, or sends 46% of its students to Ivies+Stanford/MIT, but stop with the Harvard business.</p>
<p>^that link opened up over 30 pop-up windows of the same thing...</p>