<p>Would anyone who knows Cate consider it closer to Pomona? Still best of the west, but smaller and more intimate. </p>
<p>I was thinking Cal Poly.</p>
<p>@ThisOneKid :-/ </p>
<p>Actually, after reading that post, definitely UC Santa Barbara. :)</p>
<p>@mrnephew: Why is Deerfield “the party school?” Do the kids there party a lot?</p>
<p>@mathman1201 Bored teenagers in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>I think the poster who made the “party school” comment was commenting on UVA. Deerfield is definitely NOT a party school.</p>
<p>in alphabetical order:</p>
<p>Andover = Harvard (everyone’s heard of it)
Cate = Stanford (best of the West Coast private schools)
Concord = NYU+MIT+Smith (artsy-fartsy/STEMy/liberal-artsy/accepting)
Deerfield = UVA (preppy-to-infinity)
Exeter = MIT+Harvard (STEM nerd nirvana/same colors & well known)
Hill = Cornell (good school but often forgotten)
Hotchkiss = Williams (elite & in the middle of nowhere)
Hun = Rutgers (well known in New Jersey but not widely known outside of the state)
Interlochen = Juilliard (arts)
Lawrenceville = Princeton+UPenn (not in New England but still super high; underrated Ivy bc people think it’s Penn State)
SPS = Cornell (far up North & a little secluded, same colors)</p>
<p>Someone put UVA and I was disagreeing because I thought UVA was a party school. </p>
<p>Oh I get it now.</p>
<p>Andover = Harvard (everyone’s heard of it)
Cate = Stanford (best of the West Coast private schools)
Choate = Michigan (same colors, similar cheer, my heart’s in both places)
Concord = NYU+MIT+Smith (artsy-fartsy/STEMy/liberal-artsy/accepting)
Deerfield = UVA (preppy-to-infinity)
Exeter = MIT+Harvard (STEM nerd nirvana/same colors & well known)
Hill = Cornell (good school but often forgotten)
Hotchkiss = Williams (elite & in the middle of nowhere)
Hun = Rutgers (well known in New Jersey but not widely known outside of the state)
Interlochen = Juilliard (arts)
Lawrenceville = Princeton+UPenn (not in New England but still super high; underrated Ivy bc people think it’s Penn State)
SPS = Cornell (far up North & a little secluded, same colors)</p>
<p>Andover = Harvard + Yale (everyone’s heard of it/ same colors)
Cate = Stanford + Pepperdine + Pomona(most well known of the West Coast private schools/proximity to the beach/liberal artsy)
Choate = Michigan + Columbia(same colors, similar cheer, my heart’s in both places/ NYC edge)
Concord = NYU + MIT + Smith + UC Berkeley(artsy-fartsy/STEMy/liberal-artsy/accepting)
Deerfield = UVA + Duke (preppy-to-infinity/ sports school with good academics)
Exeter = MIT+Harvard + University of Chicago(STEM nerd nirvana/same colors, biggest endowment, & well known/reputation as a nerd school)
Hill = Cornell (good school but often forgotten)
Hotchkiss = Williams (elite & in the middle of nowhere)
Hun = Rutgers (well known in New Jersey but not widely known outside of the state)
Interlochen = Juilliard (arts)
Lawrenceville = Princeton+UPenn (not in New England but still super high; underrated Ivy bc people think it’s Penn State)
Milton = UVA (high instate percentage)
Peddie = UPenn (Overshadowed by its close neighbor - Princeton/Lawrenceville)
SPS = Cornell + Dartmouth(far up North & a little secluded, same colors/ New Hampshire, smaller than most schools mentioned in the same breath)</p>
<p>What about Yale? Choate perhaps? 20 min away</p>
<p>While everyone may have heard of Andover like they have of Harvard, I hope that people have not yet begun to to go to PA just for the prestige… (Shall we call it the Harvard syndrome?)</p>
<p>Of course they do. Not all of them, obviously, but a nice portion do, evidenced by some anecdotes of our friends who all apply to schools based on prestige rather than fit. It’s not an uncommon occurrence at all.</p>
<p>I find Lville’s personality to be closer to Penn’s than Princeton’s. Not many people here are depressed.</p>
<p>The campuses have a lot of similarities, though.</p>
<p>Not sure of personality, because I never walked among Princeton students.</p>
<p>In terms of depression, 4 Penn students committed suicide this past year. I’d take this to mean many kids there are depressed. </p>
<p>Eh, correlation does not imply causation.</p>
<p>True. Very true. </p>