<p>First of, Congratulations!!</p>
<p>Parents and students give yourself a pat on the back for getting through the process. Students give your parents a hug or a thank you, because trust me this process would not be possible without them.</p>
<p>I am currently an Upper in Exeter and welcome any questions about the school, athletics, academics, social life, dining hall and so forth and I am sure fellow exonians on board will gladly help.</p>
<p>As for those who have received less happier news, keep your head up! This is not the end of the tunnel. An Exeter diploma doesn't guarantee you an admission to an Ivy or set you up for life like most perceive. YOU have to work for it like anything else..</p>
<p>Again, CONGRATULATIONS.</p>
<p>LEGGOOO BIG RED FAMILY</p>
<p>233 views no responses huh</p>
<p>Thank you from a new Exeter family! </p>
<p>Our daughter is incredibly excited right now. Exeter was her one and only choice this year. It is the only school for which she considered leaving her current school. She just knew it was the right place for her after we visited and interviewed. The atmosphere, the people, the philosophy, the academics, the campus…it all just clicked with her immediately. So grateful that Exeter felt the same way.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your family!</p>
<p>I am sure she will have a great yet very challenging time. Hopefully you will be attending one of our revisit days</p>
<p>any more new (possibly incoming) exonians</p>
<p>My son got acceptance email from Exeter this morning. He will be going to Grade 9. Waiting for the formal package in mail. We are very excited, but are also bit nervous. Is there any Exeter parent out here we can get in touch offline?</p>
<p>@ben10af, </p>
<p>I remember when I received my package last year, there was a booklet full of phone numbers of current and former Exeter parents that you were welcome to call. As the student, I didn’t use it, but my mum did, and she said it was rather helpful.</p>
<p>ben10af- I am pretty sure that in your acceptance package they send you a little booklet of Exeter alums, former parents, and current parents, listed by state, country, etc. So don’t worry! You can get in contact with those soon!</p>
<p>edit: oh, you beat me to it!</p>
<p>Exeter parent here, happy to take private messages. There is also a thread of parents on the parents forum for each of the schools, ready to answer questions.</p>
<p>My D is a new prep this year. It has been everything we hoped for and more. Great teachers of course, but the other students are the real gift.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m considering Exeter. I was wondering if it is difficult to adjust from a day school to a prestigious boarding school. Do you have passing time? Do you have planners/assignment notebooks? How much time do you have to eat? Is there a hard-cap for lights out?</p>
<p>I am also a Exeter parent of a prep (D) willing to take PMs.</p>
<p>@Ranabona and @2prepmom, thanks for offering to advise and take PM. As soon as we receive the Exeter package, I will get in touch.</p>
<p>Feel free to pm me as well–my son’s a lower.</p>
<p>I’m a current Exeter student ('15) and I’d be more than happy to accept PMs from any parents or newly admitted students with questions. Again, congratulations!</p>
<p>hi my daughter was just accepted yesterday for 9th grade. one concern i have is that the students are tied to the same dorm for 4 yrs. what happens if it the dorm does not have good chemistry? are there more desirable dorms than others? what side of campus does your daughter prefer?</p>
<p>@WorriedOne
It’s weird, but last year the school sold daily planners that had each days’ schedule with spaces to write in your homework and such. I don’t think they sold one this year as far as I know. The daily schedule can be confusing, especially now that there is an alternating two-week schedule. (I think next year there will be a six-day, one week schedule in the fall and a 5-day, two-week schedule in the winter and spring.) Some days I go to breakfast and realize that I have no idea which class I am going to first, although I obviously always ask someone before class starts. Anyway, it’s probably a good idea to have a notebook or something to keep track of what homework you have to do every night, at least until you get used to your schedule and time management.</p>
<p>Also with the new schedule, there seems to be a bit more break time in the morning. There is a bit less time for lunch than before, but that is always at least 50 minutes. That seems like a long time, but you often have to use that time both to eat lunch and get ready for sports, if you have a sports block after lunch. In the evening time goes by fast, once classes and music or club meetings are done. I guess by passing time, you mean time between classes. We have 5 minutes, but there is a 30-minute free period in the afternoon for you to either get ready for sports or get ready for class after sports, depending on when your sports block is. Note that the prep p.e. program is in the morning, so if you do that, you’ll have a bunch of classes in the afternoon.</p>
<p>The lights out policies vary by dorm, but only a couple of dorms, to my knowledge, actually enforce it strictly.</p>
<p>@nervousom4, don’t worry, you aren’t strictly “tied” to the same dorm for 4 years. The way housing works is that if you don’t ever request to change dorms, you’ll continually be put into the same dorm, however, plenty of people request a switch after 1 or 2 years and move. It’s not that common, but it’s definitely not frowned upon.</p>
<p>thanks for your response. can you request a dorm going in? are there stereotypes for each dorm? a jock, international, etc.?</p>
<p>The new schedule is amazing! We as Exonians have a weekend now, which is really really nice</p>