Hi ! I am planning to go to Le Rosey and so I would like to know what is it like at Le Rosey and what about the students’ aptitude?
How about their entrance tests? Is it really hard?
Thanks!!!
You’re in the wrong forum. I’d never heard of Le Rosey, but a quick Google search tells me its a boarding school, not a college (a boarding school for the children of the superrich that accepts only one-third of applicants, but still not a college). Try here, though I doubt the offspring of the fabulously wealthy are spending much time on College Confidential: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/
The poster is in the perfect forum. Le Rosey is a Swiss boarding school and this forum is about boarding schools. In case you don’t know, many secondary schools call themselves “colleges” in Europe and it means nothing like what it means in the USA. This is why you get strange looks as a 22 year old in Europe when you say you go to “Dartmouth College.” Way long in the tooth for a 9th grader, right? “Colleges” in Europe are high schools. Le Rosey can call itself a college and be perfectly fine.
By the way, Le Rosey has tons of notable alumni, currently sporting Kim Jung Un (Supreme El Gordo of North Korea) as one of the more notable ones.
Now there’s a reason to attend.
Just applying costs ~$2500 application fee.
By the way, this thread was in the wrong forum, but a mod moved it to here.
So the ubber rich can but their money and their children in Switzerland for safe keeping. Cool.
(from wiki “As of 2011/12, the annual boarding and academic fees are CHF 125,000 (approximately $133,000 USD), without extra-fees such as sports, etc.[34] This makes Le Rosey the most expensive school in the world, ahead of the Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil where basic annual fees start at CHF 90,000”)
~$2500 application fee is waived for all scholarship applicants. They have limited scholarship for few excellent students whose parents can’t pay, although scholarship parents are still required to pay 1/3 of school fee and 100% of all additional costs.
Le Rosey is an excellent school. Our Sec of State John Kerry is an alumni. Many students are from the wealthiest families in the world so philanthropy, wealth management, social responsibility and other such issues are emphasized. Tuition is twice as high as the highest in the USA. School attracts students globally, though many recently are from Russia and the Middle East. They also run a summer program which is a way to get a feeling for living at the school though environment not same as school year.
I think it is viewed more along the lines of a coed “finishing school” than as a place of particular academic rigor.
It also focuses on international relations and requires students to become bilingual in English and French, take mandatory 3rd language, recommended 4th language, while keeping own mother tongue practiced as well. It can be an amazing program if you are already rich and/or well connected, and want to expand your connections to princes and princesses of the world. Who can better convince Iran or North Korea to give up nuclear weapons and award U.S. that major development contract than the high school BFF of current Iranian Shah or North Korean Supreme Leader? Unless you are a professional basketball player, that is.