<p>I presently going into my 11th grade in a large high school with 3500+ kids were I will be entering the IB program </p>
<p>My classes will be </p>
<p>IB Euro History, IB TOK ,IB English 111,IB Bio ,IB Math studies ,IB Spanish 111 ,IB
PSY </p>
<p>However if I go to a boarding school I would be in a school with a lot smaller classes (one on one instruction ) , the entire school population is 150 but would have to scarifies AP/IB classes . I would like to go to boarding school because I see it as a new adventure however I dont want it to jeopardize my acceptance into a top college. </p>
<p>At boarding school my classes would be
French 1, English 3, Drama, Trig, AP Bio, </p>
<p>In your option what do you think would be my best option? </p>
<p>The boarding school is Tallulah Falls School</p>
<p>The boarding school is very small and cant offer all of the Ap's that other large schools do . Um yes they offer spanish however if itake spanish i cant have AP bio, ( Which is double block ) and I took math studies which is like a statistics type math so Ap cal is to advanced</p>
<p>I think if both you and your parents think that a boarding school can offer you more attention, and you are prepared to go to a new environment and leave your friends in high school, I think it would be a great opportunity
I seriously can't imagine a high school that large
THat is larger than my daughters urban high school and her sisters college combined</p>
<p>my daughter attended a small private school - her graduating class was less than 20.
Her school offered zero AP or IB classes.
They only offered two languages- Spanish and French ( well in middle school they had Latin)
Because it was so small, there were very few electives.
However, because it was so small, anyone could participate in anything.
Despite being quiet and not a stand out- she participated in musical every year, a couple years getting a bigger part than others- she sang in vocal ensemble, she was a star of the art dept and was on the track team. The musical in particular was a great opportunity for her, and she continued vocal in college, although she was a bio major.</p>
<p>Colleges look at the courses that were available to you in high school, if it is a competitive college, they are likely going to expect AP classes IF the school offers them. IF they don't- they don't expect it.</p>
<p>THe boarding school should be able to give you a percentage of what kids do after graduation.
From my daughters school- some kids took a year or so off ( she did) but vitually all go to college within a couple years,and despite the small size, every year, some choose to attend very competitive programs inc Ivies.
Whats best for college admissions, is the school that will give you the most opportunities to find and work on your strenghts, not just academic strenghts, because it takes more than an ability to take tests and write papers to get through college.</p>
<p>Talk it over with your friends and your family- its only for two years, but it is the last two years of high school- either school might be a fine school, but you want to figure out what you need and want from your junior and senior year- dont get sidetracked by how many IB or AP classes a school offers, classes can be very challenging without those stringent designations</p>
<p>I visited the tallulahfalls website and must admit I was underwhelmed. If the school cares about its public image, it should hire a proofreader. (Our local public HS has the same problem and I've volunteered, from a sense of civic responsibility, to correct their egregious spelling and punctuation errors, but the admins are oblivious.) Tallelah Falls' course list appeared mostly vocational (heavy on industrial arts). If the school does indeed focus on college prep, they hide it well. I don't have any independent-school guides around the house (my youngest starts his boarding school in a month so I gave them away), and I don't have personal experience with this Georgia boarding school, but I'd advise caution. If the OP wants a "top college," take prior advice and see where Tallulah Falls grads end up.</p>
<p>Albany State College
Anderson College
Art Institute of Atlanta
Berry College
Binghampton University
Boston College
Brevard College
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Clemson University
Cuyahoga Community College
Cooper Union
Emory at Oxford
Francis Marion University
East Tennessee State Univ.
Gainesville College
Georgia College and State Univ.
Georgia Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Georgia State University
Gwinnett Technical College
Hillside College
James Madison University
Johnson & Wales University
Lander University
Mercer University
Nothern Virginia Comm. College
Piedmont College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
State Univ. of West Georgia
Syracuse University
Tulane University
University of Conneticut
University of Illinois
University of Virgina
Valdosta State University</p>
<p>I admit I didnt look around on web site- (I have dial up)
if there are 26 grads the list must be from where they were admitted.
So it possibly could be the same people who were admitted to the more competitive schools like Brown and CMU, although I dont think the same person would be looking at Brown * and * Georgia tech</p>
<p>I would keep my kids in IB over a program like that at TF. There are GREAT boarding schools out there, why this one? How about Bolles in Jacksonville? Not too far from home in S. Florida and far more rigorous with more course selection and better college placement. Or a private school like the one down there in Coral Gables. (can't remember its name)</p>
<p>The national SAT average is not much different from this boarding school's SAT average, and the colleges that the graduates attend are all over the selectivity spectrum -- ranging from highly selective schools such as Brown and Carnegie Mellon to open-enrollment community colleges.</p>
<p>I think we can deduce from this that this boarding school does not specialize in providing a program for highly academic students but instead serves a cross-section of the population.</p>
<p>The problem is that it serves a SMALL cross-section of the population.</p>
<p>You were planning to do IB. Obviously, you are academically oriented. I wonder whether this boarding school, which must have limited course offerings because of its size and the academic diversity of its students, will be able to meet your academic needs. </p>
<p>Of course, going to boarding school is a unique experience, and that may be what is most important to you. But if you're simply looking for more personal attention and the chance to be more than just a number in a huge school, maybe you don't need to go to the boarding school to get that. Maybe participating in the IB program would serve the same purposes. At many high schools that offer IB, the IB program is kind of a school-within-a-school. The IB kids have most if not all of their classes together, and there are special support services (an IB coordinator, an IB office) available for them. This might make your experience as an IB student quite different from your experience as a 9th and 10th grader in the general school population.</p>
<p>The reason why we choose this school was because I applied very late (Aug.) and this was one of the only schools that still had finical aid availably.
I called bolls however their finical aid is limited and there tuition is 30 thousand a year. . And yes I would like a boarding school experience.
Is it true that college cant hold it against you if your school doesn’t offer much academically .</p>
<p>bahamas363 -- it is true that selective college tend to judge you based on the courses that you school offers, but since you have a choice between an IB program (most rigorous) and this boarding school (which doesn't offer such a rigorous program) the college will know that you chose to attend the boarding school and may take that into account. they will know that you chose that school because it is a boarding school.</p>
<p>Another concern is whether the classes you take will prepare you best -- If you are interested in most selective colleges, I would advise taking the IB diploma route and doing well. If you are looking at less selective schools, the boarding school option may well be fine.</p>
<p>You stated that you chose this school because you applied late -- I would question the quality of the school since it was unable to fill its class even granting financial aid.</p>
<p>You would be much better off in the IB program of your local school. You would be financially better off, socially better off, and academically better off. That will also be the better college admission strategy. You will have to work hard on your English writing, as that is the most noticeable area for you to grow in, based on your online posts. </p>
<p>Good luck in your high school studies and in your college search.</p>
<p>The boarding school is totally unimpressive in terms of its offerings, of the students' stats (the national average) and college placement stats. I'd go with the IB program and wait another couple of years to get the experience of living away from home and in a campus.</p>
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<p>But IB Math Studies isn't an HL course...it's not calculus. It's basically an option for those who are...less math oriented I guess you could say, or not interested in pursuing it so far. IB Math Methods is SL and HL and that's the class that goes into calculus plus more. Prior to Methods you usually would take Alg 1 and 2, geometry, and trig, since a solid understanding of those topics is needed. Usually people who do math studies at my school do trig/math analysis in 11th and studies in 12th. Or they do studies in 11th and something like computer science (which fulfills the county graduation requirements) in 12th.</p>
<p>yeah, math studies isn't HL. Most people in my school who decided to take studies do so because they are not interested in math or any math oriented career, or they simply aren't that good at math but want the IB diploma</p>
<p>megaman and Princedog - Actually I was saying why take IB program in a public school and a weaker trignometry course in this particular boarding school. I do not know any thing about IB program. Thanks for enlightening me.</p>