<p>hey guys, </p>
<p>i'm just looking for anyone's opinions on Hopkins School in CT? i'm going in as an 8th grader this coming year. I've heard a bunch of different things about it from a lot of people, but what's your opinion on it?
how do you think it stacks up against other schools, both in academics and athletics? any advice on starting it out next year?
I'd also be glad to answer an questions you have about Hopkins. Thanksss! :)</p>
<p>anyone??..</p>
<p>I was there years ago with my son for a LAX jamboree. I was truly impressed with campus and the students I met. I hear only great things about Hopkins. It’s the Roxbury Latin of CT. As I tell my guys, avoid the petty stuff, just stay focused on your school work, soak it up for all it’s worth and get involved. You’ll do just fine and congratulations!</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’d go so far as to say it is the Roxbury Latin of Ct. I think it publishes its own acceptance rate as something like 30%, nowhere near the competiveness of RL. I think they cite themselves as the oldest BS in the US. I think it has academic rigor, but it lacks diversity as a day school. Its matriculation data has also been questioned by some because of its location in New Haven. Some claim that Yale’s professors send their kids there, and that they account for the high acceptance rate to Yale. Their matriculation data for other top notch schools is not as promising. We are close to a family whose daughter started there last Fall. Like anything else, it’s about fit. I think they had a riding program that met her needs and it was a good match for her.</p>
<p>Hopkins is truly a top-notch school, and it is extremely well-regarded. On a site like this, it’s impossible to praise a school without drawing folks out of the woodwork to throw rocks at it and promote their own schools. For what it’s worth, almost the entire text of RBGG’s post is a very close paraphrase of a post from a thread about Hopkins and Choate from 2010. It was one poster’s opinion; a poster whose biases and true relationship with the school we will never know. RBGG posted on this thread, so it’s no wonder from where the content was drawn.</p>
<p>I hope you fall in love with Hopkins, that you are challenged in classes and in activities, and that you learn (as everyone at a competitive school eventually must) to ignore the never ending snipings of those who are obsessed with ranking schools and inflating their own egos. Don’t let an internet stranger make you feel like you are going to anything other than a top-notch school. There are just too many smart capable kids in America who will never get the opportunity you have been blessed with.</p>