<p>I'm looking for boardingschool rank...just can't find it anywhere.</p>
<p>If your ssat is in the high 80's (89), would you consider Kent a safety?</p>
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That's because "ranks" don't really exsist in the overall sense. You can find lists of who sends the most to Ivy's. You can find who has largerst endowments, who has won the most football, hockey, field hockey, swimming, etc. titles, or anything else, but that doesn't "rank" them. </p>
<p>What exactly are you wanting to know by the "rank?"</p>
<p>BTW, mention "rank" here and you'll get a wide range of opinions.....you just opened a HUGE can of worms... LOL</p>
<p>Some people on this website look at reputation too much, it's like how people at ivy's when they go through the college application process. Like college, there are many more boarding schools that provide a great education and great matriculation besides those well known such as Hotchkiss and Choate.</p>
<p>For example, schools like Westminster, Loomis Chaffee, and Millbrook are definitely overlooked on this website despite that they are on or almost on the same level as the most well known boarding schools. People need to realize that picking a boarding school should not involve their social recognition.</p>
<p>That's exactly right MDog. My son will be attending a school that is not usually mentioned in the same "class" of schools as Deerfield, Andover, etc.<br>
Yet, when I talk to people who really know boarding schools, they always say "wow, what a wonderful school." And, more importantly, it is a GREAT fit for him.</p>
<p>another way to think of it is that pretty much any private boarding school is bound to be better than your local public school...</p>
<p>In most cases. I would love to go to my public high school, where I believe I would receive a great education, but my parents won't let me. That is what eventually made me look into boarding schools.</p>
<p>Look VERY closely at the schools. Each school will want to know where you're applying and the list should make sense. All of the schools have excellent academic reputations but not too much in common otherwise. An applicant to, for example, Exeter and Groton is really going to raise flags in an admissions committee. Has this person done his/her homework? Does s/he know what s/he wants out of the experience? Looking at the above example, my guess would be know and I would deny the application from either school. On the other hand, if the same applicant was looking at Groton, Deerfield and Hotchkiss, I'd be more inclined to believe that s/he had gone further than some generic ranking of schools by SSAT score.</p>
<p>I applied to both Exeter and Groton and got into Exeter was waitlisted at Groton, so I would say they didn't deny my application automatically on those grounds. I also applied to Deerfield, and Andover, Concord, Milton, St. Paul's, and St. Mark's. Believe me, I did more than my share of homework researching these schools. Many people were puzzled at my list, but things that were very important to some people, like size, simply felt irrelevant to me. I didn't check the rankings of SSAT scores at any point. When I was asked, I told school my criteria for my list was school I believe I could be happy at, which was true. Groton and Exeter certainly have many differences, but that doesn't mean a person can't like or want to attend both.</p>