<p>Just one question: Why apply to boarding schools if you think that your public high school is better? </p>
<p>I’m just wondering. Just a question that popped into my head! :)</p>
<p>I think sometimes it’s the opportunities that boarding school provides- you live away from home and are exposed to a lot more cultural and international people than you perhaps would be at a public school. The facilities and academic opportunities, like studying abroad, are much, much greater. The faculty and peer groups won’t really match up just anywhere like they do at boarding schools- maybe one or the other but not both. </p>
<p>@pdl100: I meant why apply to the boarding school if you know already that your publc high is better.</p>
<p>He/she was answering your question, I think. </p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>Yeah I think that was an excellent answer, actually.</p>
<p>Heehee. :P</p>
<p>Exeter students take AP exams, the Exeter 2014 profile for colleges indicated 151 students took 463 AP exams in 29 subjects. 60% received a 5, 25% a 4. My D is at Exeter, and has taken several AP exams, including self-studied subjects. For some students, this allows for easier placement or credit in college, especially international schools.</p>
<p>Exeter was one of the first high schools to design the AP program long ago, but as the AP curriculum became highly standardized, teachers preferred to teach beyond AP, and Exeter pulled out of AP designated curriculum about 10 years ago.</p>
<p>College level classes are available to all students, and some begin them in prep year (9th grade), AP computer science being the most likely. By upper year (11th grade) most courses in English, history,and language are college level, and math and science can also be if that is what the student chooses. My D chose to attend Exeter because it has 4 FULL YEARS of post-AP math available to interested students, many of whom start high school already having started calculus. Those courses include multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and two years of graduate level theoretical /advanced math and many electives.</p>
<p>There’s no question that AP and dual college enrollment has added great dimension to public high schools, but be reassured that the same level of academic opportunity and rigor exists in elite prep schools if that is what you are looking for. </p>
<p>Same… Or even higher. I go to a great public school right now, but it doesn’t compare to most BS’s in terms of course flexibility and the overall level of the students that go there.</p>
<p>I want to go to BS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO badly!!!</p>
<p>I envy and look up to all who are admitted. Hope I will share your good luck next year!</p>
<p>your early start and exposure to the process will certainly help you. Good luck</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>