<p>Any other suggestions?</p>
<p>deerfield maybe? or exeter? or hotchkiss?</p>
<p>Choate doesn't have any formal dinners, but we do have occasional sit-down lunches. Nearly every school has them.</p>
<p>However, if you're looking for more elite schools I'd suggest:
Taft
Hotchkiss
Exeter
Deerfield
St. Pauls</p>
<p>Loomis and Hill are also good schools.</p>
<p>pretty sure deerfield is formal</p>
<p>olivia, just do a search on boardingchool review- they have all of this for search criteria</p>
<p>However, if you're looking for more elite schools I'd suggest:
Taft
Hotchkiss
Exeter
Deerfield
St. Pauls</p>
<p>dont put taft with my school! taft is a notch lower</p>
<p>I know, Blair, I just want personalized experiences.</p>
<p>Thanks, bear. :D I was thinking St. Paul's might be good. Is it a smaller campus?</p>
<p>2000 acres, I believe.</p>
<p>If you mean student body, it has about 500 students.</p>
<p>Thanks, Jonathan.
I like that size. I'll need to check out what their deadlines are, though.</p>
<p>beerfield has formal dinner everyday i think</p>
<p>I visited Deerfield yesterday, and they are quite formal. Every boy I saw was wearing a shirt, tie, and blazer, and most were wearing khaki slacks. They said they have formal lunches everyday and formal dinners everyday in the autumn and spring terms.</p>
<p>Yes, that's what I don't like.</p>
<p>Deerfield is one of the most traditional and preppy of the boarding schools. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.</p>
<p>Kitty, Did you like the Deerfield campus? When my son and I visited a few years ago, we were both disappointed. It wasn't what we were expecting based on the viewbook. Just wondering your thoughts.</p>
<p>What didn't you like about it, Loophole?</p>
<p>You drive down this residential street and then all of a sudden the campus is there. It was difficult to tell where the campus began and the neighborhood ended. I know this is all very subjective and others may think the campus is wonderful but first impressions are so important. We just were not as impressed as the other schools that we visited: Exeter, Hotchkiss, St. Marks, and Choate.</p>
<p>Choate was at the bottom of my son's list prior to the visit but both of us were very impressed with the campus and it's location.</p>
<p>I actually really loved the Deerfield campus; I thought it was beautiful, and the dormitories were really neat. I see what you mean about it being on a residential street, but I kind of like it, because Deerfield Academy is kind of (though not officially) a part of Historic Deerfield, and it sort of pulls it together. I visited St. Mark's later that day, actually, and I really liked the way it looked, too. Very different than Deerfield, but I liked them equally.</p>
<p>It's funny that Deerfield is seen as the most traditional and preppy of the top prep schools, because in it's early days it was the opposite. In fact, Deerfield used to be a mix between a public and private school, and boys who were expelled from Exeter and Andover were very frequently sent to Deerfield to be educated. Deerfield was the poorest by far to begin with, and was nearly closed on account of money several times. Without Boyden, it never would have survived.</p>
<p>"Be worthy of your heritage"... Eh. That's what I mean by the snobbiness. I've never liked Deerfield or Groton and that's why.</p>
<p>Snobbery, or pride for tradition? Are they intertwined?</p>
<p>Where is that from, Blair? On one of the school's websites?</p>
<p>Nope, they're not intertwined by definition.
Plenty of schools have traditions and hold pride in the history, but they don't declare it </p>
<p>"Be worthy of your heritage" impies that your heritage is something very noble and honorable (and thus something to be worthy of), which is fine, but don't declare that you have "noble" blood. The first attendees to every boarding school were all "blue blood", but they don't announce that. To me, Deerfield (an Groton) endorse the public's view of boarding school, which is negative. Just my opinion.</p>