While not really related to the OP’s question, remember that few BS’s are 100% boarding. And while rules about day students using cars will vary by school, 16 y/o students at a BS are going to R rated movies, 18+ (or 21+) clubs, and pretty much anything that their counterparts at the LPS are doing.
@skieurope, I know you attended a BS so I won’t dispute your experience, but I would say that with 3 kids, one at a local day school, one a young-for-grade at a 50-50% boarding/day, and another boarding at a predominantly boarding school I did notice a difference.
Thanks for the insights all. Also I presume as a repeat school allows kids to ‘test out’ of classes they may have taken or take advance classes if they want to? There are no mandatory classes? That is what it sounded like when we asked but wasn’t sure if that was only relevant to few schools/classes.
Depends upon the school, but there are graduation requirements which are usually more intense than the LPS, and some of those classes may be mandatory.
Again, depends upon the school. It is basically universal that new students will take a math and foreign language placement exam, but they need to pass the exam to be placed in to the next level. Taking Geometry or Spanish I is no guarantee that they will be placed into the next course in the sequence. Additionally, it is almost universal that they will take the grade-level English class.
I have to believe each school has slightly different rules, there is no way there’s a one size fits all rule for every school.
At the school I know best, incoming students take placement tests in math and their foreign language so they can be placed at the appropriate level. All 9th and 10th graders take the same science (which isn’t just one discipline) and the same English/History/Philosophy (which again isn’t only one discipline (European vs American history, e.g.)). So there’s no choice, or “testing out” of those classes.
Wow, 20-30%!
No wonder private school boys have a tendency to feel entitled. “Here, have a do over little snow flake!”
Maybe it’s just me, but when I post on a thread, I try to add value to the thread, or at least discuss a subject I know something about. SMH
I’m not a repeat, but both of my roommates are and prolly about 30% of my grade is. Taft is big for hockey, and almost all of the girl’s hockey recruits are repeats. My roommate applied to about 4 or 5 other schools as a sophomore, and only Taft as a repeat freshman. She only got into Taft. I think it improves your chance vs. applying as a sophomore because there is often more availability for freshmen.