<p>It’s high school… Seriously chill out…</p>
<p>City Honors in Buffalo, NY is up there too.</p>
<p>City Honors, my alma mater! Great school…but it’s a day school. And, of course, it’s Buffalo…brrrrrr!</p>
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<p>Some of the excellent ones are actually more like a pretty good LAC than a “regular” high school, but yeah they are just schools…</p>
<p>My daughter graduated a couple of years ago. The school is very good. We know people in our town with kids going to all different boarding schools, some in the top tier and some not. I think Peddie falls just below the top tier. I say this because it does not have the same % accepted into Ivies stats as some of the other schools noted. There could be a number of reasons as to why they don’t send more students to Ivies, but I don’t know the answer. I can tell you that they put a tremendous amount on money back into the school. Over the years they have been trailblazers in providing the best technological resources available for teaching. Their most recent projects include fabulous science and history buildings. My personal experience is that while my daughter was not the most academic student she did walk away with an amazing education. If she never attended college no one would know because her educational experience at Peddie surpasses many university programs. Back to admissions. As mentioned, my daughter did not have the highest GPA (almost perfect SAT’s and 36 ACT), but it’s amazing what a phone call can do…result was acceptance to a top tier (non Ivy) with money.</p>
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<p>Looking at the numbers…</p>
<p>SADGE are the only schools that meet or exceed all of the following performance metrics:</p>
<p>PrepReview matriculation rank: top 6</p>
<p>SSAT Median >= 86%</p>
<p>SAT 75th percentile >= 2200</p>
<p>SAT 25th percentile >= 1880</p>
<p>SAT Average >= 2000</p>
<p>Acceptance rate <= 21%</p>
<p>Yield >= 64%</p>
<p>Endowment >= $200m</p>
<p>Endowment per student >= $0.5m</p>
<p>International students >= 8%</p>
<p>DiveAlive asked - “…if GLADCHUMS was ever put in effect, people would argue over why peddie wasn’t there,…”</p>
<p>Okay we’ll add Peddie, and now it is: GLADCHUMPS! How do like that?!</p>
<p>By the way, Exeter had to be sacrificed in order to give a nod to the great public schools of England, which were, after all, the inspiration for our boarding school system. So, knowing of only one whose name begins with a “U” (so as to make CHUMS, which is, well, chummy) Uppingham was selected as the representational public school from across the puddle…</p>
<p>Thank you, all.</p>
<p>Haha, I almost applied to St. George’s School. Of course, this school is in Spokane, Washington, not the famous one.</p>
<p>If you get selected by all of them…which would you go to and why?</p>
<p>Andover,Choate,Deerfield,Groton,…/…exeter
haha sorry i’m biased against exeter b/c of my sister. i would probably go to choate out of all of them. i feel like i have a ‘fit’ there.</p>
<p>i wouldn’t go to SPS. when i visited them i felt like all the kids were stifly formal and unhappy. something just seemed “off”. on a positive note the campus is amazing. on the other end i also think that an entirely residential boarding school is bad because, especially since SPS has a closed campus, no one is connecting one with the outside world.
i love andover and exeter and choate. i hav yet to visit deerfield. i usually can feel if i like the campus right a way. i actually also loved hotchkiss but i felt like there wasn’t enough of a social life</p>
<p>I thought HADES was just a general term for top prep schools, not like unofficial ivies</p>
<p>Why don’t we make it CLADESH (choate, l’ville, andover, deerfield, exeter, sps, hotchkiss)?</p>
<p>Or “Clashed”! Lol 
That’s a good one.</p>
<p>CLASHED sounds too passive hope that makes sense lol.</p>
<p>thats cool</p>
<p>i dont think lawrenceville should be part of it. my honest opinion from visiting the schools as well as certain data and stats</p>
<p>^ cutiedida: AGREED!</p>
<p>honestly, i just dont think it compares to schools like andover, exeter, sps, etc</p>
<p>You can’t leave out Groton… You just can’t</p>