<p>Hello.,
My daughter is applying for 10th grade for Hotchkiss, Taft, NMH, Miss Porters. Possibly Choate and St Paul.
She gets almost straight A's, good community works, plays violin( not Carnegie Hall quality, but first chair), and most of all, full of passion for Art ( drawing, computer generated designing). She didn't get the significant award for Art Competition, but she is in AP art class ( very hard to get in for a freshman ) and doing well. She attended Art college and got credit during summer.
She didn't get SSAT yet, but last year's scored 99, 98, and 79 percentile for each subject.
Last year, unfortunately, she got rejected by Choate, Deerfield, The Taft, and the Loomis.
She got accepted by Miss Porters and Webb (CA), but she decided to reapply.
It is obvious that her strengh is in Visual Art.
Can I get some advise to make the lists of the schools she should apply?
My daughter certainly will love the school with the good visual art programs.
Thanks.</p>
<p>I definitely recommend St. Paul’s for visual arts. Also, look into Concord Academy.</p>
<p>I would recommend St. Mark’s School in Southborough.</p>
<p>All the schools mentioned so far are boarding schools which offer visual arts courses as part of a well-rounded education. If your daughter needs more art courses, perhaps you should look into Walnut Hill, in Natick, Massachusetts. It has a Visual Art concentration, and its website states that visual arts students take “three or four” visual arts classes per semester.</p>
<p>Hotchkiss has an amazing Arts Department. I just counted in the THS class brochure for this school year 82 classes currently offered by that Department. (18 visual arts, 10 dance, 28 music, 11 film/photography and 15 theatre classes). This total averages out to 1 art class for about every 6.5 students in school. Pretty incredible. (Disclaimer: My son attends THS, is taking a visual arts class this year and loves that class, as well as pretty much everything at Hotchkiss.)</p>
<p>The Grier school concentrates on arts programs and they have a lot of very strong courses but it’s all girls so it depends on ur daughter</p>
<p>Thank you very much for all of your kind and informative answers 
My daughter will opt for St. Paul, Hotchkiss, and Porters. I wish I knew more about Griers. If it is that good a school, we would have started the application process for Griers.</p>
<p>bewildered, I have quite a few friends who go to Grier. It seems like a pretty nurturing place. They all really feel at home there, seems like a very loving environment. Grier does seem to have very good arts programs (as well as other extracurricular activities), and they may be flexible with applications if a deadline has passed.</p>
<p>Have you looked into Walnut Hill School for the Arts or Interlochen Arts Academy? I looked at these two for theater, but I’m pretty sure they’ve both got outstanding visual arts programs, as well (and a solid college-prep curriculum).</p>
<p>Thanks catherine94.
I would certainly consider Grier. I like it when it is nurturing with good art program.
Many recommended Walnut Hill and Interlochen. However, my D seems not 100 sure if she will follow art for her career. She is too young and still wants to have her choices opened. I certainly know that both of the schools are strong academically,too.</p>