<p>choate, lots of APs and Hotchkiss is isolated but the town is very nice. </p>
<p>St. Andrews (Delaware) or Taft? (this is the decision i will make if i get in).
I think i will choose St. Andrews</p>
<p>Taft YAYYYYY
But I dropped it after going over my selections for the last time lol
I wish I was still applying.. Damn</p>
<p>Concord or Loomis?</p>
<p>Concord. Loomis makes all their students (day ones included!) clean the school. If I pay 35,000 dollars to go to school, I don't want to have to clean it. I mean, cleaning my room is expected and fine, but cleaning classrooms...? Not for me, thanks.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville or Taft?</p>
<p>Taft. I don't want to go to school in NJ.</p>
<p>Hotchkiss or Andover?</p>
<p>Andover.</p>
<p>Hotchkiss or Lawrenceville?</p>
<p>Tough one.. I don't like Lawrenceville's location or Hotchkiss' name, but I guess I'd go with Hotchkiss because it's not in NJ.</p>
<p>Deerfield or Groton?</p>
<p>Deerfield. What's wrong with NJ? </p>
<p>Peddie or Choate?</p>
<p>It's just.. bldfdf. I've never been there but just I've just heard that it's full of factories and the whole state is just a dump. (Besides the NY suburbs like Hoboken, etc.)</p>
<p>Choate. </p>
<p>Choate or Deerfield?</p>
<p>I want to make amends with Olivia for saying "Choate" sounds like a term for "bug vomit." Deerfield, for its part, sounds like a place where I've got to look where I step.</p>
<p>Choate.</p>
<p>Peddie or Blair? (for Jonathan1: BOTH are in NJ!)</p>
<p>lol </p>
<p>Probably Peddie because it seems like a better school.</p>
<p>Hebron or Vermont?</p>
<p>You've never been there? You should check it out. It's not really full of factories and the whole state isn't a dump. I mean, there are factories and parts of NJ aren't very nice, but the shore is (Monmouth County, I mean) and Princeton's nice, Redbank's nice, etc. </p>
<p>Chances are, Lawrenceville, Peddie and Blair are all in nice areas.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville is in the pretty little village of Lawrenceville, about 10 minutes from Princeton. Campus is off the charts.</p>
<p>Peddie is in Hightstown, not a bad little town again near Princeton, campus doesn't really compare well to L'Ville, and parts of it are a little too near the hwy.</p>
<p>Blair is in Blairstown in the northern part of the state. Pretty country, but remote by NJ standards. Town lacks any kind of charm, campus is OK, a little eclectic, but OK.</p>
<p>new jersey has some of the richest towns in the country (and thus world)..</p>
<p>lawrenceville is actually in trenton.. trenton used to be very nice, but it's very ghetto now.. some parts are undergoing rennaissance, but who knows.. i'm sure lawrenceville is in an entirely safe area. princeton is nice, hightsown is pretty nice, blairstown (and allenstown) are more rural, but still nice.. they remind me of little towns in connecticut, red bank is amazing.. as is little silver, oceanport, rumson, monmouth beach, ocean grove... all very nice. monmouth university (right by these towns) has one of the nicest campuses i've ever seen. it's nicer than yale. it's small, and the oly way to get in is to be very rich... anyway, i'm sure boardig school campuses in NJ are just as nice.</p>
<p>what do you mean town lacks any kind of charm? i thought blairstown was more charming than most little town in NE. what do you mean?</p>
<p>blairt, lawrenceville is not in trenton. lawrenceville is about 15-20 minutes north of trenton, and 5-7 minutes south of princeton. The actual village of lawrenceville is very quiet and secluded. lawrenceville's campus is also over 700 acres and fairly self contained.</p>
<p>Blair and Peddie are also in nice areas, although neither has as impressive a campus. I consider the proximity of these schools to both NYC and Philadelphia to be a major advantage - one which many other more remote boarding schools don't enjoy. Despite rumors to the contrary, NJ is actually a very nice state.</p>
<p>I grew up in New Jersey and while I couldn't imagine living there -- family thing -- there's no shortage of wonderful and scenic places. Now they did stick their major transportation corridors through some majorly ugly places -- and that just means that the urban blight that goes with such corridors didn't taint the entire state. It's a fairly small state as it is...and the southern half is basically unknown to most people, including native New Jerseyans, because it's so far off the NYC-Philadelphia corridor.</p>
<p>As for Trenton v. Princeton...I can get into Trenton faster than I can get into Princeton from Lawrenceville. But why would anyone want to do that? As noted above, it's hardly IN Trenton. But the Governor's Mansion (Trenton is the state capital) is past Lawrenceville on the way towards Princeton.</p>
<p>New Jersey has plenty of rural and bucolic areas...but they're never too far from civilization. Though Blair's pretty far out there. I used to play against Blair in football (two away games in high school) and it seemed like it was 20 miles from nowhere. Plus they had those PGs, so we were hurting the whole way back to our campus.</p>
<p>Anyway...to move this back on to the choice thing, let me not neglect to ask the ever-important school choice question:</p>
<p>Hun School or Pennington? (both are in NJ of course!)</p>
<p>1) As noted, L'Ville is not in Trenton, in so many, many ways.</p>
<p>2) "Allentown" is in PA.</p>
<p>3) You are the first person in the history of the world to compare Manmouth and Yale in any way whatsoever.</p>
<p>4) I take it back, Blairstown is a dump, and compares to only one town in CT --
Wallingford.</p>
<p>Hun</p>
<p>Pingry or Rutgers Prep?</p>
<p>"I take it back, Blairstown is a dump, and compares to only one town in CT --
Wallingford."</p>
<p>Wow! The part of Blairstown that is next to Blair Academy is really very charming and looks nothing like Wallingford. Are you sure you were in Blairstown and not somewhere else? There used to be a thread on the most attractive campus, and Blair was mentioned by several people (not me) as being the most attractive or among the most attractive. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it is the rare person who would call it a dump.</p>
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<p>Hey, Wallingford is a quaint town. The Main Street is nice and it isn't that bad. Don't start turning it into Yale-New Haven. What's so bad about it?</p>
<p>Pingry.</p>
<p>Newark Academy or Delbarton?</p>
<p>Most of Wallingford is anything but "quaint"</p>
<p>Delbarton</p>