<p>Hootoo. Totally agree!! Sometimes…Monday to Friday would be more than enough. </p>
<p>I don’t understand why people always say 50% boarder as a disadvantage of Milton. How many people you actually need to be surrounded by to survive. During school times, you have classmates and teachers to be with. After school, you have some friends to play sports and do activities with. Dinner time, you have couple of friends to eat with. The rest of the time should be alone to study hard …and sleep. (Honestly, with this amount of tuition, if my child not seriously studied hard…I would probably kill her, please don’t even mention about having fun or friends)
Actually, I don’t know how many friends my daughter actually needs to live in boarding school…couple of very good friends would be plenty enough. The rest, are just schoolmates…I believe!!</p>
<p>I am not of the opinion that high day students is a bad thing. As a matter of fact, it has its advantages. For instance, a larger overall student body allows for a greater variety of course offerings and ECs, as well as an increased likelihood of students finding “like minds.” People also point to a segregation of boarding and day students at schools like Milton (and Loomis). Again, I tend to think of it as a smaller residential school within a larger school. Almost all of the advantages of going to a smallish school have to do with the quality of residential life, not academics. At a school like Milton (or Loomis or Lawrenceville) you have both. The boarding day ratio at Milton is not why our family ultimately took Milton of our list of schools to tour. We simply had enough schools to look at and one or two of them had to go. I sometimes think that was a mistake and if we are in this game again next year, we will surely add Milton (and Choate) to the “possibles” list.</p>
<p>To the OP, it seems logical to me that boarders at Milton might “stick together” more since there are fewer of them. Perhaps you should contact the dean of residential life at Milton if you have specific questions about dorm life. Ask to be put in contact with a current boarder.</p>
<p>Just came back from Milton revisit, and WOW!!!</p>
<p>I was awed by Experience Exeter, but you have seen nothing yet without Experiencing Milton also. Now I have a really hard time deciding!!</p>
<p>To keep up my tradition of kicking around my favorite punch ball, let me tell you here that I met a student admitted by Andover as a day student. The story is - and you can do your own investigation, Andover didn’t allow day student parents in its revisits. The Andover revisit itself is a light weight but the school is so arrogant that it believes you will definitely come just because it is Andover. So much for being “nice”, and too much for keeping driving up the common denominator to remain selective or relevant – very SAD!!</p>
<p>Back to Milton revisit, here is the gist:
very friendly school atmosphere and high spirit
amazing caliber of students and faculty
harkness is used for most subjects - even though they don’t use the word harkness
rigorous academics with comparable results while allowing quality of life and opportunities to expand and grow in many other areas
50% boarding is absolutely NOT a problem. The bonding among the 41 dorm mates are as strong and amazing as I have seen elsewhere.
the revisit offers a 360 degree view and every aspects of the school, from academics, development processes, dorm life, athletics and various forms of art.
Milton’s motto - Dare to be true, which I hope Andover can really learn from.</p>
<p>Looking at the AOs travel schedule on the Andover website, I am convinced that they drive up the number of applicants as they tout they are need-blind in their info sessions. So a lot more people who need FA also apply. But in reality their %FA and FA budget are no higher than Exeter’s which is need-aware. Yes, this marketing plan seems to be working for Andover to make the acceptance rate look good. People’s need for a brand name is another factor.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree with the two posts above mine. Andover is such a bad school. They scam kids with their info sessions. It’s obvious that Andover is arrogant of its reputation because they DO NOT offer any kind of quality education whatsoever. </p>
<p>The school is really not worth anyone’s time because the students are not “nice” at all. It’s just their marketing strategy that makes people think that they have “nice” students. In reality they are all brats who laugh when someone kicks a puppy. </p>
<p>Definitely do not apply to Andover because the students that attend are soooooo much different than the students who attend other boarding schools. I’m such an expert on everything about Andover because I’ve talked to a couple students who were accepted to the school and may have went on one 45 minute tour. I just hate listening to the perspectives of current students because they obviously know nothing about the school. It’s the school’s marketing strategy to increase their applications and lower their acceptance rate!</p>
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<p>What’s with all the Andover hatred lately? What happened to “if you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say it”?</p>
<p>Seriously, kids. Save the time and energy for something more meaningful. The admission process is over. Don’t bad mouth the schools that didn’t select you. Know the schools that selected you have turned down others. Just move on already.</p>
<p>SPRING VISITS 2011
Day Students (Tentative) Schedule
Monday, April 4/Tuesday, April 5
Please have your parents drop you off by 7:45 a.m. at the latest.</p>
<p>2:45 p.m. Please have your parents pick you up by 2:45 p.m.</p>
<p>Yes, that means that the student programming occurs then - kids attend classes - though there were, today, for example, day student parent lunch events held parallel to student lunch in Commons. Additionally, day student parents and students are invited to an evening talent show and ice cream social. That’s exactly the same programming that boarding student parents receive, so I’m not sure what your point is.</p>
<p>Oh my god this is absolutely laughable. Why do I bother</p>
<p>I am not privy to all the info, so you can say whatever you want. All I know is that student’s parents were let home. </p>
<p>Even if a lunch or evening talent show were offered as you claimed, parents won’t be interested in driving back and forth, or thrilled that they have to write a big check for it.</p>
<p>Pulsar, come away from the online schedule for a sec and listen. I attended the talent shows on both Wednesday and Friday last week even though they are not mentioned in the schedule for day students or boarders. A mistake, it seems. Maybe you should criticize the schedulers. I won’t defend them, and shouldn’t have to. The point is, though, that having attended these events I can tell you that there were both day student and boarder parents there with their kids.</p>
<p>Well they are getting the prime show as per your schedule, aren’t they? It looks like as Hootoo’s acquaintance mentioned, the day parents are getting the short end of the stick.</p>