<p>IMO all the schools you have mentioned will claim to have very proficient Advisory Programs with no chance of falling through a crack. Being somewhat the off season right now, proponents (and opponents) of the schools you mentioned may not be currently present here on CC. You or your child’s vision of nurturing may differ from the school or Advisor. We can all have a bad day(s) and the one day of need may not be present. You have to somehow come to your own conclusion with the nurturing aspect which also correlates with FIT. The more academically challenging school with a large school body can find a student more reluctant to reach out due to peer pressure or what would appear to be the norm. I’m positive the door is almost always open at all the schools but it’s actually going through it that will be the issue. The same can be said with smaller schools but then the teacher or Advisor is more able to literally, for lack of better words, corner the individual. During our tour at Taft years ago, we ran into our guide’s Advisor (HeadMaster’s wife). As soon as the niceties concluded she was all over him and what free time he had left just vanished.</p>