<p>The whole town owned by one man…I can definitely see that. In a very small area (perhaps 6 square blocks), there are several sophisticated art galleries, a rare-book store, 2 to 3 bakeries/patisseries, a number of clothing stores, a gourmet market (fresh baked baguettes with fresh churned butter and organic preserves for something like $2.75), a gorgeous children’s clothing store…really, the best that a New England summer tourist community might offer. If I had sought to craft an idealized NE Town, Kent might be it.</p>
<p>Kent has a 1500 (?) hundred acre campus; St. Paul’s has a 2,000 acre campus. They could not feel more different. Perhaps by design, the Kent campus is very centrally focused; it’s size is measured in it’s outlying areas. St. Paul’s campus (academically) is very spread out; honestly, kids must have to sprint from class to class. That said, the run is gorgeous.</p>
<p>yeah kent campus just didnt do it for me the buildings were closer together than my private school campus and ours in like 17 acres</p>
<p>zuzu: i visited mercersburg already 
i lovee school!
i can’t decide between mburg n nmh!</p>
<p>haha you’re right 
i shudn’t b complaninig</p>
<p>The Hartford airport is only an hour from NMH. You would not have to drive 4 hours, you could get a flight into Bradley.</p>
<p>…and as I mentioned in another thread, Logan airport in Boston and Manchester in NH are both 1 1/2-2hrs. away. Not sure why the “4-hour car ride”.</p>
<p>Okay, there are a lot of NMH fans here and I am sure it is well deserved. But let me give you a last minute M’burg update.
It is the time of year when the kids are looking at classes for next year. My daughter will be a soph and is planning on taking Honors English, AP History (not sure which one, sorry), chemistry, Latin 3 Honors, Algebra II (that is the middle level math course for sophs) and an elective. At M’burg, you have to take 3 years of history and sciences, so she is trying to get those done by the end of her jr. year so she can take lots of electives and aps in her senior year. She also applied and was selected to participate on a school biology trip to Costa Rica in June. She will be there for 2 weeks and will get some credit for the trip. They are taking 12 kids, all expenses paid for every kid. Makes no difference if you need FA or not.
She also sent me an email today telling me about another trip. This one is a youth symposium in Oman to be held in Nov/Dec at a “sister school”. It will focus on Human Rights and Migrant Workers. It is also free. She is going to go through the application process, but they are only taking 6 kids, so the competition may be tough. But she knows one of the teachers involved and is hoping that may help.
I bring this up because one of the nice things about going to a school this size (about 440 kids) is that opportunities like this abound and you can take advantage of them. You can be a big fish in a small pond. Her big quandry right now is whom to pick for her advisor. She likes her current one, but really wants a female role model. The problem is she has gotten to know a bunch or great women really well and is torn. What a great problem to have. Academically, she is doing well. Not straight A’s, but pretty close. She loves school. She chose M’burg because it offered a lot of diversity. In the begining she would tell me about the different countries represented, now I don’t think she gives it a second thought (unless someone asks her during a tour).
Good luck with your decision.
zp</p>
<p>What the revisits made clear to me is that there are so many wonderful schools out there with kind, caring people. Honestly, there are so many places where a motivated student can thrive. Often, the decision comes down to nitpicking. We found ourselves wanting to take our favorite parts of each school to create the “Uberschool”. </p>
<p>Just finished calling schools where our child will be declining to let them know. It kinds of makes you feel bad because folks were so kind.</p>
<p>Doschicos, Which school did your son pick? It looks awfully difficult to pick from a list of fine schools. :)</p>
<p>pulsar-Thank you! Good luck to you for next year! I went into a Math class and I taught that it was intense. Well it was a precal BC class so I mean what do you expect. The teacher was there helping along the way. I love the house system! I do not feel it makes you unsocial to members of other houses because you are only required to sit with your house for lunch once per week. I think it’s great for me because I’ll be in the 3rd form as a new sophomore , as a result I will get to know a smaller knit group of about 30 or so people first instead of being in a dorm of 100.</p>
<p>when i visited nmh… i saw kids sleeping in class… not a really good impression there…
students complain they hate their classes</p>
<p>I like these NMH kids…they’re totally my style lol ;)</p>
<p>ladyluck…not sure which class you visited. My son very much enjoys his classes and teachers, as do his friends. One of the things he most enjoys is how engaged everyone is. It’s pretty hard to sleep when there are only 8-12 kids in your class. I don’t know what the heck class you were in. That’s too bad. However, there isn’t much time to sleep. My son typically has an 18-19 hour day (7AM work job, then classes till 1:40, athletics practices, play practice, meetings, and peer mediation and tutoring). Not uncommon at any of these schools.</p>