<p>When we decided to send our son to a boarding school and started the school search last year, what we mainly relied on was 'word of mouth'. Then we looked up the websites such as preprschoolreview.com and studied some reference guides. While we could get general information based on numbers pretty easy, it was very difficult to find the schools that may have a better fit with our son. Then I found CC and it has been very helpful. </p>
<p>First-time parents/students may have a hard time getting some 'qualitative' information or insight on a specific school. For instance, what is the peer atmosphere like at Andover? Are they more competitive than coorperative? Are they more formal at dinner table than for instance Exeter or Hotchkiss? Are they more oriented to athletics than arts? This kind of information is pretty hard to get through most of the websites or reference guidebook as it is hard to quantify. </p>
<p>I was wondering if there is any thread on CC that deals with this kind of qualitative information. I see many people ask about specific qualitative aspects of individual schools and thought it would be nice to have that kind of info somewhere.</p>