<p>Hey, i was thinking of applying there to repeat junior year so yeah</p>
<p>it seems amazing!!</p>
<p>do you guys know anything about it</p>
<p>It is a good school. However, it is more lile day school. Their boarding is about 50%. That made my parents concern since the day students' parents might participate in the activities too much.</p>
<p>Yeah, the only problem is the 50% boarding and 50% day...</p>
<p>I don't understand what the problem is with combined boarding and day students?</p>
<p>Day students are losers...
This is widely known.</p>
<p>nice. i think the problem with large numbers of day students is that the day students tend to segerate themselves from the boarders, and vice versa.</p>
<p>People have said that the problem lies in the fact that a large number of day students tends to make a school lose it's boarding feel as the school is largely cleared out on week-ends.</p>
<p>Well, those are good reasons too.</p>
<p>I've posted about this issue before, and I'm beginning to feel like a broken record, but here goes (again!):</p>
<p>Whether a large number of day students tends to dilute the "boarding" feel of a school, and whether the day students and boarders tend to "integrate" has very much to do with the particular school culture and therefore varies enormously from school to school.</p>
<p>Milton, I will tell you, still feels very much like a boarding school to the boarders, and yet has managed the integration of the day students and boarders into a cohesive whole very well - perhaps it's because so many of the day students return to campus on the weekends for activities and so on (campus is where the fun is!). The elder SmilePup went to Milton (as a boarder) and he across the board loved the experience: he loved being at the heart of things living on campus but he also established very good (and lasting) friendships with many day students. In fact, I would say his pool of friends was about a 50-50 split (how interesting! and probably no coincidence). </p>
<p>There are many really wonderful and bonding traditions about being a boarder at Milton and the fact that the boarding population is only 350 or so means that students get the benefits of being at a big school in terms of the curriculum, extracurricular opportunities, etc. but have this relatively intimate setting in which to get to know faculty, other kids and themselves as more independent people. Like so many of you, before SmilePup 1 went to Milton, I was a bit concerned about the ratio of boarders to day students but what I came to realize is that actually the 50-50 split gives you the best of both worlds (at least at Milton). As I say, it surely varies from school to school, but Milton has done a good job of striking the balance.</p>
<p>I have to agree with Smile dog on this issue. I also went to a BS that was 50/50 day and boarders. Interestingly I was one year a day student, the next a boarding student because my family moved. It was a great school and the mix proved to be an advantage in many ways.</p>
<p>i know a current 9th grader at milton and a current 8th grader going into 9th. they wish it was possible for them to board. both have lots of boarding friends who get invited over for occasions. i think it is a good deal. my god father was a boarder at milton a few years back and he loved it.</p>