<p>Yeah as it was said before you are going to find drugs no matter where you go it's just a big difference in what type of drugs you find. In public high schools there are things like the hardcore drugs like cocaine and stuff like that at prep schools you'll see the few kids that smoke weed and stuff like that. It's there but it's not nearly as bad as in public high schools</p>
<p>Yeah, basically the deal is that if you don't want drugs or drinking to be part of your life, you aren't going to have a problem avoiding them in prep school. Sure, they'll be a group of people that drink or smoke weed, but a good majority of the people stay away from all that.</p>
<p>If we someone smoking weed or drinking alcohol, should we just turn around and leave, or tell someone?</p>
<p>It depends on the person weed I would always say just one hundred percent leave. You don't want to tell someone beause that only leaves you open to ridicule. Drinking at least as an uppper classman just happens you have to get used to that beecause that's what college is. But weed just leave it can only lead to a lot worse things.</p>
<p>Okay. Thanks.</p>
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<li>I think that the best move is to just leave</li>
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<p>About how many students do drugs at prep schools? (%)</p>
<p>This isn't a major worry guys. I mean you aren't subjected to lots of bad stuff really. In every school you will have students who make poor choices. Each school has rules for reporting, supervisory staffing and kids don't live in dorms w/o monitoring. This isn't a major problem unless you are the ones breaking the rules.</p>
<p>Whatever reputations these schools may have, the fact remains that substance abuse is much more prevalent in public schools. Public school students don't have the restrictions that boarding students do. Public school students can go to an empty house, whereas boarders live twenty feet from a faculty member. Yes, drugs and alcohol exist in boarding schools, but there is no pressure to participate so I wouldn't worry too much about that.</p>
<p>For the schools that provide matriculation information, here are the top ten boarding schools according to the percentage of students attending Ivy League colleges. Some schools have not provided thorough enough information to make the list (if in fact they do have the numbers) like St. Alban's, Thacher, Concord Academy, St. Mark's, Taft, and Loomis Chaffee (that doesn't mean they would make the list, it's just that they don't provide enough information on their websites). </p>
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<li>St. Paul's School - 31%</li>
<li>Deerfield Academy - 30%</li>
<li>Phillips Academy (Andover) - 27%</li>
<li>Groton School - 27%</li>
<li>Milton Academy - 25%</li>
<li>Phillips Exeter Academy - 24%</li>
<li>Lawrenceville School - 21%</li>
<li>Middlesex School - 20%</li>
<li>Choate Rosemary Hall - 18%</li>
<li>Hotchkiss School - 18%</li>
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<p>davida1, my figures for Mx the last five years is closer to 26%. Chaote and Hotchkiss jive with my numbers. Deerfield was at 27-28%, groton 26%. Again, I think we can all agree that aside from the ivies, these schools matric their students to the top schools in the USA. By the way, CA matrics about 14% to ivies from my research. They have recently had a large number matric to columbia for their size. Siffice it to say that this list has a variety of schools size wise.</p>
<p>So here's my question..........Why all the hype for 2 or 3 schools. Since we have so many people on this thread googoo over the larger schools, I'll champion the smaller schools. The bottom line as usual, I wish ya'll all the luck in the world in finding the RIGHT FIT for you.</p>
<p>The Middlesex numbers were based on one year and the Deerfield and Groton numbers are accurate. Groton's are 100% accurate because they provide full information. Deerfield's numbers were extrapolated based on the class size provided by <a href="http://www.petersons.com%5B/url%5D">www.petersons.com</a>.</p>
<p>davida, your'e correct on Groton it was 26 + and MX over five years was 25+, deerfield was 27-28% five year period. Ihave the exact graduating numbers each year from petersons independent books for past 5 years or so. Then I took all the number from deerfield view book for number og grads attending paticular schools.</p>
<p>I think we can all agree that it may not be wise to choose a school based on ivy league matrics. We can also agree that most all of the schools mentioned on these prep threads all in all do very well in placing their students in a number of top schools besides the ivies. I also hope we can agree that the one most important issue in choosing a bs is fit. If your main purpose in attending bs is to get into the ivies, I wish you luck, but imho many will be disappointed (70-75%).</p>
<p>Omg. Look. Drugs are going to be wherever you go. And if you see drugs, don't be a stupid freshman and tell. Best advice: Let It Go. Just don't get caught letting it go. And I doubt you'll magically stumble onto someone doing drugs. People aren't that stupid. They'll probs go into the woods and do it. God.</p>
<p>Milton has the lowest acceptance rate (I think we were down to like 12% this year) but that is because it is half day (and the day acceptance rate is below 10%. It is crazy.)</p>
<p>^Cool. I feel special for getting into Milton. Do you have evidence/links for this information?</p>
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Milton has the lowest acceptance rate (I think we were down to like 12% this year) but that is because it is half day (and the day acceptance rate is below 10%. It is crazy.)
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<p>Yeah right. </p>
<p>On the BSR website, it says the acceptance rate is 20%, which is still low, but not as low as 10%. 10% is kind of ridiculous, don't you think?</p>
<p>Prepparent,</p>
<p>You really need to stop exaggerating the Middlesex figures. According to their website, the Ivy matriculation numbers are about 20%.</p>