<p>Would anyone be interested in telling me what it is like going to a boarding school in either England or Switzerland? Especially if you are from the US and had to transition to Europe's schooling.
If someone would apply in 8th grade in the US and get accepted, would they expect to go to "9th grade" in Europe? When would it be best to apply? What are some of the better boarding schools there (co-ed and all girls)? How much do the usually cost in US dollars?
Would you rather go to school in America? If you graduate from a high school in England can you just go to college in America?</p>
<p>B u m p :)</p>
<p>The three schools usually identified with Switzerland are Aiglon, Beau Soleil and Le Rosey. Tuition is around 80-100k, with generally no fa. Many trips taken throughout the year are extra. The english schools operate on a very different system and for the traditional ones I believe one enters in 7th grade. There are too many to remember but There is a site, very similar to the cc that is primarily for english boarding schools. If you cant google it, try searching this forum from about 2 yrs back and it should come up, unless someone else remembers it.</p>
<p>English boarding schools accept people at 3 stages - Year 7 (Grade 6), Year 9 (Grade 8) and Year 12 (Grade 11). Very traditional, very elitist. No FA at ALL. And yes, the legends are true - Eton did require registration at birth (But I think that’s finished now). And yeah, I think mhmm’s referring to the Student Room (The british version of CC). Their very expensive, and very strict. But the experiences are meant to be great. British BS’s are a lot like Marmite - You either love it or hate it. If you graduate from secondary school and then sixth form (college, as it’s informally known but it’s not college college it’s just called college and it’s basically Junior and Senior year), you still have to take the SAT and then you’d qualify for college college in America. The curriculum is quite different, so I’d suggest you google that. We do the GCSE’s (General Certificate for Secondary Education), where you do 10 or so subjects as part of the curriculum and an A* is basically the highest you can get. You do the GCSE at freshman and sophomore year, then for junior and senior year (sixth form/college), you take 4-5 subjects that center around what you’d like to study at university level. Sixth form, or A Levels are basically equivalent to the AP, in terms of difficulty and such, and those 4-5 subjects are what determines (as well as the GCSE’s) your acceptance into university.</p>
<p>For Boarding schools, I’d suggest looking into Wellington College (first British school to use Harkness), and the 9 English Public Schools (there not public, but were the first 9 schools in Britain to be under some law/legal thing and are basically the British Boarding school Ivies.</p>