<p>My pleasure. Keep them coming.</p>
<p>Do you have any recommendations for prep parents on which permissions to say yes to on the form we received recently? If we check No will our child be unable to stay at friends houses or go on ski trips ever or does that just mean the school will contact us before he goes for permission?</p>
<p>Thanks for telling me that existed, PA-C. Time to go bug my parents to give me all the permissions ;)</p>
<p>I think you should do whatever you’re comfortable with. It really varies from parent to parent. If you don’t give the right permissions, your child won’t be able to go on certain trips unless and until you change those permissions; to my knowledge, this is not done on a case-by-case basis (but you may want to double-check with the Dean of Students’ office). </p>
<p>One approach is to be liberal with permissions but also require your child to clear with you any off-campus trips; this allows you to retain control without worrying about paperwork. But, of course, it only works if you can trust your child to check with you first…</p>
<p>What trips do Exeter students usually go on and when?</p>
<p>Thank you PEAteacher! :)</p>
<p>the school runs sponsored trips to boston just about every month, and there are club trips (e.g. ski trips) but besides that the only thing you need permission for is to go to a friend’s house.
but with the proper parental permission you can go into boston w/o having the parent write in every time, and go completely on your own. doing so is AMAZING upper and senior year. i cant tell you how nice it is to get off campus sometimes. eating some good food is great for the soul (l’espalier or pigalle + finale for desert= cure for stress)</p>
<p>Thanks square-kay-PA. Of course, what sounds AMAZING to a kid often sounds SCARY to a parent… :)</p>
<p>haha yea i tried to temper possible parental unease by saying “upper and senior year”. i feel like by the time someone is a junior or a senior in high school, especially at boarding school, that kind of freedom should be appropriate. but of course, these are the thoughts of a 17 year old so… haha</p>
<p>How many preps are admitted to Exeter in a year?</p>
<p>We had 200 preps last fall. Not sure what the number is this year, but I assume it’s somewhere in that neighborhood.</p>
<p>Someone on another thread said Exeter is need-based. What does that mean?</p>
<p>They take your need for aid into account when deciding whether or not to accept you. This is just like most schools.</p>
<p>It’s not “Exeter” that’s need based but rather financial aid at Exeter: how much you get, if any, depends on your family’s financial need; this is unlike at some colleges where aid can be merit based (simply based on your academic achievements regardless of need) or based on other criteria such as participation in varsity sports.</p>
<p>[Phillips</a> Exeter Academy | Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/admissions/147_351.aspx#faq352]Phillips”>http://www.exeter.edu/admissions/147_351.aspx#faq352)</p>
<p>There have been comments here on CC that it is difficult to get (academic) merit aid if you went to Exeter (or other BS) because your GPA is not inflated and you aren’t taking a million AP courses (even though Exeter courses are at the same level as AP most times). Could you share how often you have heard of Exeter students receiving academic merit aid for college and which colleges are merit aid friendly for Exeter students?</p>
<p>I know Exeter graduates who have received substantial merit aid for college, and I’m not convinced by the claim that someone coming from boarding school would be less likely to get it. The other thing I’ve observed is kids getting merit-based full rides to pretty good colleges but turning those offers down because they would rather go to an Ivy League school (which may or may not be giving them aid). Case in point, [this</a> kid](<a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_16894.aspx]this”>http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_16894.aspx) who got a “super” full ride to UNC (entirely merit based) but turned it down and matriculated at Yale instead.</p>
<p>If you are familiar with Max Henry de La Bruyere, the Morehead-Cain scholar, could you please explain what kind of student he was and what he was involved in? Obviously I understand that there isn’t one mold you have to fit in to get the scholarship, I’m just curious, since I’ve never heard of this before. Thanks!</p>
<p>What would you say a typical weekend is like for a student?</p>
<p>There’s a profile of Max in the latest issue of the [Exeter</a> Bulletin](<a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_17879.aspx"]Exeter”>http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_17879.aspx).</p>
<p>Typical weekend… not much is “typical” when you have 1,000 students, but here are some options. There are classes in the morning about every other Saturday. You may have a game/race in the afternoon if you do a varsity/JV sport; otherwise you may spend the afternoon hanging out with friends, going to Walmart, attending a club meeting, etc. In the evening there’s usually some on-campus event (movies, dances, shows, etc.) and buses to the movies. If you’re a boarder you check in at 11:00 and enjoy snacks provided by the faculty member on duty, and then you hang out some more with dormmates (watching a movie, playing videogames, etc.). Sunday often involves getting up late, going to brunch, and then finding something to do in the afternoon such as playing football or frisbee on the lawn. Sometimes I get the feeling that the kids in my dorm don’t really start doing homework on weekends until late Sunday night… but I imagine and hope that at least some of them do homework in the afternoon as well… Exeter students, feel free to pitch in.</p>
<p>Haha when I was at Exeter, I would always tell myself that I would get my work done by Saturday night so I could relax for the rest of the weekend, but that only actually happened a couple of times in my four years. Sunday definitely is the homework day. A “typical” weekend is different for every one, as PEAteacher said. For my typical weekend, after Saturday classes, I would take a nap and get maybe a subject of homework done, clean my room/do laundry, then go to the music building to practice - and by “practice” I mean hang out with my friends who were also “practicing.” Check-in is always fun, and my friends and I often stayed up chatting, watching movies/tv, or playing games. Occasionally, I would go to dances or special events hosted by various student groups. If I knew ahead of time that I’d have a lot of tests/papers due the next week, I might do some extra work. On Sundays, my friends and I would go to brunch and spend maybe an hour or two there. Brunch is awesome. The food is the best then, and people are always coming in and out - it’s a great time to catch up. Then, I might have some ESSO events (community service) to go to. I spend the rest of the day homeworking, practicing, or procrastinating.</p>
<p>If you are in a sports team, your schedule will definitely get tighter, but you won’t miss out on the most of the “big” events that happen on Saturday nights. You might have bad luck and have an away game that returns late, but generally you still have time to socialize on Saturday even considering the large chunk of time taken away by sports.</p>
<p>Oh, and sometimes there are also DRAMAT plays that you can go to, on Saturdays, Sundays, and Fridays on weeks w/o Sat classes.</p>
<p>I definitely knew some people who worked through the weekend (these people generally get more sleep during the week), some who went to every single dance and Student Activities events, and some who started their homework on Sunday night. I also knew people who would frequent Boston - it’s nice to get out of the Exeter bubble sometimes.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>PEAteacher and tuesdayair- what wonderful insights to Exeter life! Especially tuesdayair, I got a wonderful sense of weekend life. It’s very appealing 
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<p>Thank you both!</p>