<p>TomTheCat, sorry to take this thread off topic but again, you are misrepresenting your old school. The students there are not ‘rich.’ The great majority of day boarders are enrolled in what corresponds to a decent small private school stateside soley because one or both of their parents are employed on an expatriate package which includes educational benefits. In other words, most of the day students are there because their parents’ companies pay the bill. Back in their home countries, most of these students would probably attend public school (in the American sense of the term.).</p>
<p>Good lord, samuck, can we please both let this go? I think after spending 11 years at my previous school it’s my right to comment on the student body, and regardless of whether or not the parents’ companies pay for the school, we’re still talking about a very, very monied lifestyle that includes enormous houses with indoor pools, screening rooms, and sometimes even fully-equipped recording studios. I mean to say nothing about the intelligence of affluent students in general because I know, live with, and love quite a few at Andover, and the same went (and continues to go for) my friends that continue to go to my old school. I’m just saying that many of the ones at my old school weren’t particularly happy that they were expected to complete homework and come to class everyday. That was just the type of student and family that my old school “attracted” because, yes, a lot of the kids were “dumped” there when their parents were transferred to the country for work.</p>
<p>Yes, TS/TTC, we should both let this go. Let me just say that as a current member of your old school community and as someone who is neither white nor rich, I had the right to correct your initial characterization of the school as full of rich white kids. I also think it’s worth distinguishing between students who are actually from monied backgrounds and those who are enjoying big houses rented by their parents companies while on a two to five year stint abroad. I agree, though that this is completely off topic. Enjoy the rest of your Christmas break.</p>
<p>That sucks. I worked so, so, so hard to escape that place and now you’re stuck there. Well, as long as it’s working out for you, that’s what matters. Maybe now that it’s under new administration things will start to look up. The new interim head is a great guy. Do you know what last year’s headmaster did? He plagiarized his commencement speech 100%. From where, you ask? [YouTube</a> - Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI) so it’s too bad that that is now part of the school history. It later emerged he’d plagiarized an earlier “Headmaster’s View” newsletter, too. Pretty classy stuff. The next move of the interim should be to fix the health curriculum and start the teaching of preventative measures and contraception rather than plain old abstinence. The fact that that’s still what they teach actually makes my blood boil.</p>
<p>And it might be nice to serve more than water and milk at lunch everyday. A little variety never hurt anyone. Have they turned on the hot chocolate machine again? Wanna know the reason it was turned off in the first place last year? Some kid last year drew a smiley face on his plate with ketchup.</p>
<p>wow tomethecat, you make it seem like pencey prep 
or bloor’s academy</p>
<p>Sounds to me an awful lot like some of the schools I’ve attended.</p>
<p>Rosey scores are very high. Where are you getting your info. Go to International school IB scores. Rosey is one of the top schools. They do go to top universities in the world.</p>
<p>um yeah by the way paulazaria facebook is allowed i know many people who go there and have facebook…they allow cell phones, ichat, etc bacsially get to do whatever you would do at home. They have to do there homework other wise they lose privaleges like going out and sking, there is time blocked out everyday to study and the 3 months they are at a ski resort they have class on saturday morning…I applied there.</p>
<p>erdandcer8 did you get in and did you apply for a scholarship _?</p>
<p>Haha, ooooh, that’s rough, class on Saturday mornings at the ski resort? Life must suck for them.</p>
<p>It’s weird, whenever there’s the occasional post in favor favor of Le Rosey, it always seems to come from a random CC name with a single post and appalling grammar. Interesting how that works.</p>
<p>^^Hmm yes, indeed. At least no one types like +#!$ <- homg, thats annoying!</p>
<p>Well Tom to be honest, Le Rosey is an awesome school.A Swiss education is the best one can have, I can vouch for that since I have experienced it and Le Rosey may be full of rich kids but it’s not like you can show it. There are restrictions on what electronics you can have and what electronics you cannot have, there are also restrictions on how much money a week you can have depending on which grade you are in and their IB scores have drastically improved so all in all although Le Rosey may be reserved for a somewhat upper class socialite group of people but the school itself’s academics are improving and not just accepting rich snobs… So please do not diss the school just because of the tuition even though it does not offer a HADES education nor a Eton education it offers somewhat a mix of both HADES and Eton that is a good fit for some kids and that seems to work well.</p>
<p>“A Swiss education is the best one can have”
really? have you had an education in every other country in the world, too?
…also, i’m going to ignore the eminent grammatical error in your phrase, just because.</p>
<p>rosey’s academic rigor is nowhere near that of HADES, and i have no idea what you mean by an ‘Eton’ education, so…</p>
<p>Ok for one DiveAlive, don’t judge me, you don’t know me and as a matter of fact I’ve had an education both public and private in 6 different countries and I can tell you that out of all of those the Swiss education seemed to work very well compared to the American system and the British system. To be honest, I possibly could not care less about a grammatical error here and there since my first language is not English thus me not having an extensive vocabulary/grammatical knowledge. Oh and by the way ofcourse Le Rosey’s academic rigor is no where near that of HADES since Le Rosey’s goal is to educate you for life lessons such as how to dine and how to present yourself and many more valuable life lessons, the HADES goal is to prepare you for college. Am I saying one is better than the other ? No, it’s different ! And an Eton education is an education given by " Eton College" , I consider Eton a mix of HADES and Le Rosey since it does both effectively. So please Dive Alive don’t judge me or Le Rosey when you don’t knoe me nor do you have an extensive knowledge of Le Rosey.</p>
<p>know*… I did a typo- can’t edit from iPhone.</p>
<p>i am judging le rosey based on the statistics on their websites, which is probably what you are doing too, since at no point have you attended rosey.</p>
<p>bottom line, unless you’re obscenely wealthy/hang out in obscenely wealthy circles, at no point do you need to attend rosey. at rosey, from what i gather, you can make fabulous connections which would work well in the world of business and international relations and wherever else that obscene wealth comes from. normal folks do not need to learn how to DINE or “present themselves” (within reason). normal folks head on to university, so that they can get a job in the future because not everyone has a trust fund to live off of. normal folks go to HADES because there is no point in spending 80k+ a year to learn how to DINE or getting an education that you could get for less than half that price. however, roseans go to rosey because their connections are probably priceless. education, as tom said earlier, comes second. rosey is simply not an option for 99% of the human population, nor does what rosey provides (connections) become of <em>that</em> importance that one has to dish out 80k a year.</p>
<p>no, muf123, rosey scores are not that high. look at their IB score distribution chart and their FB score distribution chart. their FB scores are mediocre, if not practically sub-par, and their IB scores are nothing to write home about. for 80k, there are so many places where you could get a better education, but roseans go to rosey for presumably different purposes.</p>
<p>swissbrit… this is the internet. you ARE going to get judged.</p>
<p>Well sorry to break your Bubble although I am not attending Le Rosey I am in contact with the director and I can assure you I am not talking just about stats as for one I know how many scholarships are given out per year and I know their endowment. Obviously I am not going to share this info since I do not want to put my connection with Le Rosey in risque. Also as I said you go to Le Rosey for different reasons than going to the HADES, you can’t compare and I’m sorry to say but their IB scores are very good, sure if Exeter would do the IB then they would do better since they pressure you more thus you would get good scores. Anyway you may not understand the value of networking these days but I do and I just find it sad that I am being judged for stupid reasons./ END CONVERSATION</p>
<p>Ok this’s sorta turned into a bashing thread so I’m gonna try and clear a few things up. It’s true Le Rosey may not have the same academic rigor as the HADES schools or Eton but it’s artially because they’re an international school. (I have personal experience with this btw) And bc of that they use a different curriculum with the goal of completing an IB or FB education. However international schools have a VERY different view on admissions. They want to provide an opportunity for everyone (for those who can pay that is) to study at their school. </p>
<p>They also enforce a very strict affirmative action, this essentially means that anyone from an underrepresented country such as Swaziland will almost certainly get in if they apply, even if they just meet the academic requirements to attend. Even if a Chinese, French or Italian applicant have way stronger EC’s, GPA, test scores (they use their own admissions test) and recommendations they may not be admitted, but the Swazi (?) applicant will. This is because a single nationality can at any given point exceed 10% of the student body. This rule was instituted and enforced after Russian oligarchs began sending their children there. These kids terrorized other kids, drank, did cocaine etc.</p>
<p>This has it’s advantages it creates diversity unparallelled anywhere in the world. Ethnically and linguistically, but maybe not diversity in the socioeconomic sense. And yes they get amazing connections and trust me if you have any experience whatsoever in the world of business, law, politics or international relations you will realize that connections are EVERYTHING. If you go work for say Morgan Stanley, so what u went to UPenn? so did 30% of all the other employees, but if you happen to know the kid of an MD personally, trust me you’ll get a lot of advantages. Or maybe u know a couple of CEO’s at Fortune 500 companies or mayb a Saudi prince, this could bring in A LOT of business. If you go to HADES, sure you’ll get to know influential ppl but not with the same amount of power. This is in fact partially bc the schools provide generous FA and they are relatively cheap compared to other institutions and sometimethey offer various rebates, to faculty children, to town residents (DA) etc. These kids will undoubfully become successful in their future ventures but they lack important business connections that could considerably help them. They have to acquire these themselves and it’s at that point where a Rosey education becomes important.</p>
<p>And yes, EVERYONE needs toknow how to dine and present themselves. Education is important in pursuing a career but the personailty of the person is equally important. If you eat like a pig and present yourself in a similar manner ppl will give you looks. Now if you can apply etiquette and always remain polite, be a gentleman you will have a considerable advantage over the bookworms. Some ppls parents teach their kids the importance of such things and some parents don’t. I sincerely feel sorry for those kids.</p>
<p>So yes you could say that Le Rosey is inferior. And it is, academically. But when it comes to preparing a person for a career I think Le Rosey’s got the upper hand. You won’t be able to establish diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia just because you can solve differential equations in your sleep. But if you know a Saudi Prince and the child of an important Israel politican. Your chances will undoubtfully increase.</p>
<p>DeerfieldSwede- I couldn’t have put it better myself. You just made my day.lol :D</p>
<p>I’m 100% sure that all the GLADCHEMMS schools mean to admit a certain number of Chinese(East Asian) kids. It applies to colleges, too.</p>