<p>Okay, so my parents have convinced me that making a Pros and Cons list about attending a Boarding school will help with my decision.
So far here's all I have:
Pros:
Better education
New experiences
A LOT more diversity</p>
<p>Cons:
Be away from home
Miss my friends
Lots of time and $$$ and may not even get in
Could be one of those kids who has a horrific BS experience 0.0</p>
<p>If you could think of anymore please comment!
THANKS!
~PD~</p>
<p>there is a thing somewhere i saw which listed pros and cons online but i dont remember where.<br>
more pros:
lots of opportunities
more classes
smaller classes
lasting friendships</p>
<p>cons:
have to be more independent
more responsibility</p>
<p>OOhh those are good ones!Thanks!
Any other suggestions??or advice from people who attend a BS
40 views!? Oh come on guys please?? I know someone has other reasons</p>
<p>bump…sorry Im so impatient = S</p>
<p>Pros:
Learn about different cultures
Develop independence
Better chance of getting into “good” school</p>
<p>Cons:
Could flunk out</p>
<p>That’s all I could think about right now. Hope it helped.</p>
<p>Most of the cons sound more like pros to me. Isn’t independence great?</p>
<p>Pros
[10</a> Top Reasons to Go to Boarding School - Boarding School Review](<a href=“10 Top Reasons to Go to Boarding School”>10 Top Reasons to Go to Boarding School)
[Why</a> Boarding School? - Boarding School Review](<a href=“Why Boarding School?”>Why Boarding School?)</p>
<p>Yeah, just everything I could think of is in those links. BS isn’t for everyone. Some cons…
<p>bump.Thanks, absence makes the heart grow fonder!</p>
<p>independence can be good in a lot of ways, but then it can also be bad, if you are used to have someone make you dinner, do your laundry and all that. if you are independent now then it could be a pro, but if u need to learn how, its one more thing to adjust to</p>
<p>As a boarding school student, I’ve found that there are few cons if any. Missing people (i.e. friends and parents) goes away after a week or two; you’re so busy doing things and making friends that you won’t miss people. I’ve really enjoyed the independence- i like not having my parents breathing down my neck, even if it means more responsibility and more accountability. Diversity- meh, the school’s not THAT diverse (it LOOKS diverse, but still…). There are opportunities (like lots of trips), classes (extremely interesting classes with awesome teachers), and friendships (we tight, y’all). </p>
<p>So yeah, that’s my bit. Hope it helps! :)</p>
<p>that helps a lot, actually!Thanks
And TRUST ME the BS that I am looking at are WAYYYYY more diverse than my hs. We literally have like 3% students of color, 2% are Asian American .9% hispanic, and then there’s me</p>
<p>We have maybe 7% Hispanic. Two or three blacks. Two Asians, one of whom was adopted by a White family. It’s sorta sad.</p>
<p>yeah…most people in my disrict are black or white (majority black) and then there’s a few asians scattered about but they usually leave for a suburb, and then everyone is puerto rican or dominican somehow. so mainly latino y black. </p>
<p>and then all the teams we face from like the hill towns and such- everyone’s blonde w/ like one brunette and occasionally a black chick(WEAVE lol inside joke) and they’re all really beastly yet so so skinny and i could go on</p>
<p>are those the scary “corn people” you were talking about from the berkshire thingy.</p>
<p>haah Im usually the token black girl…so sad = ( I cannot stand it, I have a civil rights obsessed teacher and he always points me out and says things like, oh most black kids wouldn’t live in (my town) but Polodolly is brave enough to represent diversity, and even though she is black, I hope you can look past that to see her value as a person, blah blah …ya, that’s my daily morning lecture</p>
<p>I feel like there is a lot of diversity on CC. There are many internationals, different races, and cultures.</p>
<p>Someone make a poll thread.</p>
<p>that was already done. it was some parent who wanted to see how many girls vs boys were on b/c there’s a majority girls… maybe it was benley…</p>
<p>make a thread for it</p>
<p>I will, but how to approach it?Ask them to state country, race, and gender?</p>
<p>ask for a survey to see what kind of applicants are the kind who go on CC.
State:
Country:
Gender:
Race:
Sports:
Hobbies:
Music tastes etc</p>
<p>will do…YAYAYA my 100th post.god im on here too much</p>