<p>I simply CANNOT find a PA campus map with all dorms on it in Internet. Please, post a link or something.</p>
<p>Else would appreciate if someone could tell me any info about French House dorm. I heard that it is the worst dorm on campus.</p>
<p>There isn’t a PA campus map with all the dorms. Look for Graham House on the PA map and French House is right by it. And French House is not the worst dorm on campus. I think it’s around 7 guys? I don’t know too much about it. You could PM benevolent4them. He lived there last year.</p>
<p>The one bad thing about French House is that the House Counselor has had a policy of no parietals in the past. He’s very nice, otherwise, though. Decent rooms, though not the most amazing on campus.</p>
<p>A little late, but…@pulsar: It’s hard for some day students to integrate with boarders. They miss out on the experience in the dorms, and many leave campus well before they are required to be off campus. I had some close boarding friends, but I wasn’t nearly as close with them as I could have been had I been a boarder (losing an hour a day to transportation and not being able to come on the weekends was not helpful as far as my social life went).</p>
<p>There is a map, but it isn’t available online (security). </p>
<p>It should have been mailed to you in the big packet that you should’ve gotten awhile ago. </p>
<p>Also, French house isn’t that bad… I know tons of people from there. Actually my roommate next year lived in French his freshman year.</p>
<p>hey any current PA students or past PA students,</p>
<p>what are the best classes to take at PA? what are the hardest?</p>
<p>I swear there is a map. I found one online last year that had all of the dorms listed on it. I’m pretty sure. I’ll go look for it and post a link if I find it. Also, in terms of a language, Chinese is great.</p>
<p>New Freshmen, What are your first impressions of Andover?</p>
<p>Nonexistant as of now…</p>
<p>International students arrive on Thursday, and new domestic students arrive on Saturday.</p>
<p>New Phillippians, What are your first impressions of Andover?</p>
<p>@nbaradwaj</p>
<p>Here are some amazing classes I’ve taken so far:</p>
<p>English 520 with Mr. McGraw
Theater 420 with Mr. Heelan (Public Speaking)
Biology 580 with Dr. Hagler (It’s a yearlong, 560-570-580 class, but the last term is the best)
Any Spanish class with Dr. Neissa (Greatest teacher in this school)
Economics with Mr. Perry</p>
<p>Hard classes:
Biology 560-580
Any class with Mr. Domina
Any class with Dr. Jones
Fluid mech
Most math classes over the 500 level
…actually, most classes over the 500 level are pretty hard.</p>
<p>Also, please take what I have to say with a grain of salt. Some classes are good/hard because of the teacher, the curriculum, or the students in it. There are a number of factors.</p>
<p>New Phillippians, What are your first impressions of Andover?</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>I am a sophomore and looking to apply to Exeter academy for 11th grade, my primary strengths are the Math Olympiads and Political savviness. I have won awards in debate, model congress, moot court, and will do mock trial and model un this year, expect to win awards, and am most of all willing to adapt and learn.</p>
<p>here are my sophomore plans, <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/999819-i-am-dedicated-want-know-if-college-would-agree-not.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/999819-i-am-dedicated-want-know-if-college-would-agree-not.html</a></p>
<p>please advice, i am not a prodigy but i am extremely bright and am creative in both sciences and humanities. I love reading, blogging and public speaking. not to mention my technical skills and passion for video editing.</p>
<p>Most of all, i try incorporate my various passions together, whether it’s political videos, or economics and statistics or chem and physics together, :D</p>
<p>am I qualified for E/A or Andover? and which one would be better for my ‘fit’</p>
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<p>Nice, large-resolution map:
[Phillips</a> Academy Andover - Map](<a href=“http://www.pa59ers.com/map/PAMap.htm]Phillips”>Phillips Academy Andover - Map)</p>
<p>Andover yield this year dropped to the 70s and I remember reading they used to be in the 80s. Is this because of the recent drug problems on campus or something else? Does any one know anything about this?</p>
<p>Invent,</p>
<p>As Andover’s reported yield this year is a very healthy 78%, why are you trying to gin up a controversy? After all, drug use is a national epidemic, not a problem limited to one prep school.</p>
<p>Actually, Invent, Andover’s yield this year, 78%, is higher than last year’s, 77%, but around the same as it has been for the last five years. For the record, that’s the highest yield of any New England boarding school.</p>
<p>Additionally, I would posit that Andover would get far less attention in this general area if we didn’t have such an incredible school newspaper, one that favors absolute transparency. Did you hear that eight St. George’s students this year got kicked out for drugs? No? Maybe it’s because they were not transparent about it. And that’s up to them. Yet we were transparent with the three expulsions that resulted from one event earlier this year on the PA campus. Does that not speak highly of our student body and campus philosophy, that even though the expulsions were painful and sad, our campus approached the issue like adults and used it as an opportunity for dialogue rather than glaze over it and pretend it didn’t happen?</p>
<p>I realize that that was slightly tangential, so to answer your post, Invent, no. As I stated earlier, our yield actually increased.</p>
<p>Is your yield higher because you have an army of day students? If your yield is in the 70s, I don’t think it is that much higher than Exeter.</p>
<p>Exeter’s yield is 63%. We also don’t have an army of day students - 25%. More than Exeter’s 20%, but that doesn’t account for the disparity in yield, does it…</p>
<p>Anyways</p>
<p>TomTheCat, how’s the overall picture of this year’s college admission at Andover? I know many people don’t like the Ivies+SM measurement, but to get a sense on whether it’s similar to the past few years, is the ivies+SM matriculation rate still 30%+?</p>
<p>About yield, actually one school that is comparable to Andover is SPS if only comparing boarding students yield.</p>