<p>Are there any students on here that would like to tell us about Milton?</p>
<p>jonathon, do a search for a gianscolere sp? that went to milton and had much to say. good luck.</p>
<p>Hey Jonathan!
Remember me? I go to Milton.
What would you like to know?</p>
<p>Everything!!!! :D</p>
<p>oh wow.
hmmm I don't have a lot of time right now, but Milton is incredible. Probably one of the most liberal boarding schools. Everyone is actually genuinely nice to you. Lots of freedom... many free periods for work... so many ECs to choose from. they have weekend activities planned for students all the time if they want to participate.. such as free movie tickets or dinner. Last week we had Octoberfest and Swap-it dance.
That probably doesn't help too much. Any specifics you would like to know?</p>
<p>hi, how are their sports programs and do they have many boarders?</p>
<p>MSU or other Milton boarding students/parents</p>
<p>Several people posting on this board do not consider applying to Milton as a boarding student because to them the percentage of boarders seems too low. Can you share with others what it is like to be a boarder at Milton? Where do the boarders come from geographically. My understanding is the school has over 300 boarders and most of them do not live in the local area, as opposed to some boarding schools with a higher percentage of boarders but many of them from nearby who leave on weekends. How does the school integrate day and boarding students? Talk about the diversity.</p>
<p>One thing potential boarding students should realize is that Milton is one of the finest private schools in the area, although it doesn't think of itself as a "prep school like Andover," and the day students I know there are extremely talented.</p>
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Interesting comment because when admissions visited my son's school, they were certainly sounding like they thought of themselves like Andover. At least that was the message the kids came away with.</p>
<p>The whole Milton community is closely knit even with the large number of day students. There are always planned events that we can all participate in during the weekends, but even without them our community would be close. We can stay over a day students house if we would like for weekends or holidays or just go over their house (with permission of course). So we kind of get the best of both worlds. Boarders have a lot of freedom so we never feel like we're locked away at this school. The boarders come from all over the place. Not a lot of them live close to Milton at all. The boarders I've met come from the Jamaica, Bermuda, Malaysia, Korea, Hong Kong, DC, England, and from all over the states.</p>
<p>Jonathan. Unless you have completely changed over the last year and a half Milton is not your school. It is a unique school the way the university of Chicago is a unique university. Relentlessly academic. There is no question in my mind that Milton is a top school, to my mind the most academically competative of the preps but you, like gianscolere would almost certainly be unhappy to the point of having to withdraw as he did. By all accounts you are happy where you are in a fine school in a supportive environment. If you're on the bus, don't run after it</p>
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<p>Just wondering why you believe this? It surprised me, only because I think of Andover and Exeter being academic to an extreme. I am not very familiar with Milton, but didn't realize it was considered so competitive. (I'm not questioning your statement--it's just the 1st time I heard that about Milton and would like more information.) If it is extremely competitive, than it wouldn't be the right environment for my daughter. Any further comments would be appreciated.</p>
<p>They have a pretty good football program, at least compared to Pomfret School. They killed us in our scrimmage in september</p>
<p>It is a challenging school, no doubt. However, they have sooo many ways of helping you out. For example during 7-930ish at night, there is a teacher (1 for each subject) at the skills center to help you if you need any help. They are also there during the day if you have any frees. I have a lot of work for junior year, but that's expected for every school, but I've heard from freshmen that they have about 2, maybe 3 hours of work, and sophomores about 3 (that may be pushing it), so that's not bad at all. For me, it's more or less about 6 hours. It also about how you manage your time. I don't manage my time very well. I start my hw at about 7. which is after dinner. I'm thinking that when I take up a sport during the winter, it's going to be worse.</p>
<p>I just graduated last year (MSU, who are you?) and am now in the Honors program at Tulane (though I'm definitely getting out of here--the academics are not worth the aid package I got from them.) I'll take any questions you may have.</p>
<p>too good to us.</p>