<p>well....im just here looking at the lawrenceville prospectus for admission and it looks AH-MAZING....anybody like to share with me what they think of the school? Does the school put major emphasis on swimming? share u stats for getting in the school if you'd like as well</p>
<p>I applied last year to Lawrenceville and was waitlisted. Needless to say, the school is pretty incredible, even if I don’t know much about their courses. Their campus is beautiful, their hockey in the MAPL is pretty strong (I think) and I heard their humanities courses are great. I’m not sure about the emphasis on swimming, though.</p>
<p>Swimming is big!</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, in the most recent prepreview boarding school ranking L’ville is tied with Deerfield as #7.</p>
<p>ive been trying to get this question be answered for the longest while! whos #1 in the ranking? :P</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that Andover, Exeter and St. Paul’s are all tied for #1. Forgive me if I’m wrong, though.</p>
<p>As far as the school goes, Lville is one of the best you’ll find. However, if you are a serious swimmer (you swim year-round for a USA swim team) Lville is not that great at swimming. They only swim one season per year and expect you to do sports during the fall and spring seasons, so you will have to be only a one-season swimmer. If your looking for a school with great academics and an strong year-round swim team, then you should consider Peddie (though not as prestigous as lville, Peddie is in the top 15 or so schools in the country and has a serious swim team). Last year I applied and was accepted to both, but chose Peddie because of swimming.</p>
<p>This is what I wrote about swimming from a previous post (by the same person)…</p>
<p>Here is my advice (from one swim mom in a million) when thinking about choosing a BS if you are a swimmer…</p>
<p>If you are a kid who swims competitively and wants to continue to do so at the collegiate level after BS, consider the following before applying as a boarding student to a BS:
-Am I a multi-sport athlete who loves swimming but wants to participate in a variety of sports throughout the school year?
-Am I a swimmer who wants to attend a BS that will allow me to pursue a sport I love year-round?</p>
<p>After you know what you want concerning your swim program, think about the two types of BSs with competitive swim programs:
-BS whose swim team functions as a as a high school swim team, only.
-BS whose swim team functions as a high school team as well as a USA-Swimming program </p>
<p>If you are looking for a traditional high school swim program, then programs found at Deerfield, Lawrenceville, Hotchkiss, etc. may be perfect. These schools offer one-season swim programs, only. They are not considered great swim schools–but they are great schools with excellent high school swim teams. There is a big difference between swimming year-round and swimming on a high school team, only.</p>
<p>However, if you are applying to a BS and you want to swim year-round, you will usually fall into one of these two categories:
-You swim 3 seasons at your BS and then return to a home team for the Long Course Season and over school breaks from your BS (unless you live close enough to your BS). Schools like Mercersburg, Baylor, Bolles and Peddie function like this,—or—
-You are a day student at a BS and you will swim with a club team as well as your high school team to continue swimming year-round.</p>
<p>Swimming World Magazine has named the Swimming World High School Teams of the Year since 1971…Here are the REAL SWIM SCHOOLS!</p>
<p>Year Boys HS Boys Prep Girls HS Girls Prep
1971 St Xavier N/A N/A N/A
1972 Santa Clara N/A N/A N/A
1973 St. Xavier N/A N/A N/A
1974 Santa Clara N/A N/A N/A
1975 Santa Clara N/A N/A N/A
1976 Jacksonville Episcopal N/A Upper Dublin N/A
1977 Mission Viejo The Peddie School Mission Viejo N/A
1978 Mission Viejo Jesuit Mission Viejo N/A
1979 Mission Viejo The Hill School Mission Viejo N/A
1980 Mission Viejo Loyola-Blakefield Mission Viejo N/A
1981 Mission Viejo Mercersburg Mission Viejo N/A
1982 Mission Viejo Mercersburg Mission Viejo The Peddie School
1983 Mission Viejo Mercersburg Mission Viejo Mercersburg
1984 Campolindo Mercersburg Mission Viejo The Bolles School
1985 Mission Viejo Germantown Academy Mission Viejo The Bolles School
1986 Mission Viejo Germantown Academy Mission Viejo Germantown Academy
19871 Mission Viejo Mercersburg Spanish River Germantown Academy
1988 Hinsdale South Mercersburg Edina St. Andrews
1989 Churchill Bellarmine Prep Mission Viejo The Peddie School
1990 Churchill The Peddie School North Penn The Peddie School
1991 San Marino The Peddie School Conroe McCullough The Peddie School
1992 Plano St. Xavier Americus Germantown Academy
1993 Humble Kingwood Jesuit Davis Pine Crest
1994 Humble Kingwood St. Xavier Davis Germantown Academy
1995 Humble Kingwood The Peddie School Carmel The Bolles School
1996 Cypress Creek The Peddie School Carmel The Bolles School
1997 Cypress Creek Brother Rice Shadow Mountain The Bolles School
1998 The Woodlands The Bolles School Carmel The Bolles School
1999 The Woodlands The Bolles School St. Charles Trinity Prep
20002 Firestone The Bolles School St. Charles The Bolles School
2001 Evanston Township St. Xavier Irvine Ursuline Academy
2002 Firestone St. Xavier Irvine Ursuline Academy
2003 Lake Forest St. Xavier Ann Arbor Pioneer Ursuline Academy
2004 Carmel St. Xavier Lake Forest The Bolles School
20053 Upper Arlington Brophy Prep Ann Arbor Pioneer Germantown Academy
2006 Humble Kingwood The Bolles School Ann Arbor Pioneer Germantown Academy
2007 New Trier Bellarmine Prep Austin Westlake Germantown Academy
2008 Yucaipa The Baylor School Austin Westlake Germantown Academy</p>
<p>This is the other thread on the topic of swimming in which I posted a similar response.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/702794-major-focus-swimming.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/702794-major-focus-swimming.html</a></p>
<p>sorry i didnt see it on the other thread! thanks!</p>
<p>I attend lawrenceville and thoroughly enjoy it. you can take a class on just about any subject you want and the academics are fantastic so i wouldnt worry about that.</p>
<p>in terms of swimming, there is water polo in the fall and swimming in the winter. if you are a truly dedicated swimmer, then you are able to do swimming year round, but you would have to talk to your advisor at lville about it. the school is very flexible about how your athletic credit is fulfilled and you would be able to swim at another school or for a local community. </p>
<p>the same goes for other sports. for example, there was one kid from PDS ( i think ) this year who ran for our spring track team because his team was not that good and held him back in events such as the 4x800 from what i hear</p>
<p>LLVILLE- I wish what your saying had been the case for swimming, because then I may have been able to truly consider attending lville, but unfortunately swimming is a weird sport. First of all, swimmers need to train year round to reach their full potential. Therefore, doing waterpolo in the fall, though it is a water sport, is not the same as swimming. Swimmers usually spend approximately 2 hrs per day, minimum, swimming laps. Waterpolo players are not swimming laps that long everyday. Also, in the spring, getting permission to swim is extremely difficult and rare. I know several swimmers on the team, and in order to get permission from lville to swim in spring instead of another sport, you have to be going to a HUGE meet in the summer (like the Olympic Trials- which you have to be in the top 100 or so in the nation to qualify for and only one lville swimmer has qualified for in the school’s history). Even then, swimmers can only swim in the lville pool without a coach telling them practices. The lville coach made it clear that they do not want their swimmers training on a club team during the school year. I tried every way I could to make the lville swim program work for me and asked many questions, but unfortanately, it just didn’t. However, if you want to be a one-season swimmer, it is the perfect program.</p>
<p>lol but what i plan to do is run in the fall and then swimming in the winter…so i will be all fit and ready for swimming and also some summer swimming programs as well.</p>
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<p>justbeingme - ok thats fine. i dont actually swim so i was just making an educated guess based on what i know from other sports at the school. what school did you go to instead?</p>
<p>LLVILLE- I’m going to Peddie next year.</p>
<p>justbeingme - im sorry to hear that, good luck. haha</p>