<p>Apparently west coasters are pickier. They have three great boarding schools and 100% have made to the “honor roll”. What are they complaining? :)</p>
<p>3? Cate and Thacher are miles ahead of Stevenson and Webb…</p>
<p>I agree with DiveAlive that Cate and Thacher outrank Webb and RLS. But this is a discussion about four schools in a state with 38 million people. Boarding schools are not popular in California. The ‘game’ is on the East Coast. As we all know, there are a lot of great schools between New Hampshire and Delaware, for example, a fraction of the area of CA. California kids who are serious about boarding school go East.</p>
<p>PercyJackson - what a foolish statement. Are you an adult?</p>
<p>i doubt it with a username like that (its a character for a rather terrible tween novel)</p>
<p>don’t you mean rather horrible tween movie? The book wasn’t all that bad actually >/</p>
<p>just remove the “rather” from that statement and you’re good to go ; )</p>
<p>hahahaha i read the first chapter of the book and promptly thought the concept was just too ridiculous for me my brother loves the books but i suppose he is the right age for them 6th/7th grade</p>
<p>ya that’s the time period where my obsession with them peaked</p>
<p>yeah I read it last yr lol 
(7th) but that being said my interest is usually in well written books (ie-Gatsby, Cather in the Rye, TKAM, that kind of book) and it gets better (WAY) as the series goes on.</p>
<p>oh i most certainly read trashy fiction my kindle is full of that type of stuff all of the more serious books i read in print… they must be given the proper respect</p>
<p>agreed. btw i can’t STAND kindle. it makes me angry. i like my paper copies thank you very much <em>huff</em> preferably hardcover…</p>
<p>what would you classify as trashy fiction?</p>
<p>Percy Jackson isn’t a bad book, I was really into it in 5th grade :). Over it now, the movie was bad but still a decent read for the Myth idea…</p>
<p>I want to get a Nook for convenience sake, I already have tons of series in PDF format but nothing will EVER replace books. I actually wrote one of my SPS essays on books and the smell of paper and the appeal of reading. Can’t have been that great though seeing as I was WLed ;)</p>
<p>like the upper class novels and other things of the sort</p>
<p>It isn’t that they’re better than everyone else;the schools may be in the same tier or group or whatever it’s called (i.e. Ten Schools Admissions Organization, National Coalition of Girl’s Schools).</p>
<p>Statistically they seem to be better. But again, after a certain point, its just about the fit.</p>
<p>instead of HADES, it should be HANDLES for
Hotchkiss
Andover
Northfield Mount Hermon
Deerfield
Lawrenceville
Exeter
Saint Pauls</p>
<p>nmh is not on the same level as those other schools. and wheres groton, middlesex and milton?</p>
<p>how abt… GADLEMMS or GLADTCHEMMS?eh, eh?</p>
<p>How about we don’t put all of these schools together into one group. There will always be controversy on which schools belong and which schools don’t belong.</p>