<p>Can any current or past students or parents of RL please comment on their overall experience at the school and with the provided college guidance, and also a note on the admission process and other schools you may have considered and why. Thanks!</p>
<p>The guidance is, to my mind, excellent for the cohort: well focused on what colleges are reaches, and which are probables. The individual service has been exemplary for us; they quickly contacted and resolved a potential disconnect between next year’s classes and a particular college’s minimum entrance requirements.</p>
<p>My recollection is that they “follow” about 150 - 160 colleges fairly closely, and have built up strong relationships with most of those colleges. But they are not a cafeteria, and I’m not sure what happens if you’re ineterested in a college that they have not forged a relationship with. besides, you’ll find that they follow most of the premier colleges.</p>
<p>But they follow the one you are named after :-)</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>PM me if you want to</p>
<p>My S applied but did not get into RL, but this is what I learned. They like to send their kids to the best possible colleges possible. My understanding is they will push the top kids to the top schools and will work around those top kids. IE-if your son is not one of the choosen kids to apply to HYP, for example but wants to apply there, they will discourage that application. IMO, it is a great school, very competitive, but great. Like any great school, all the kids are stars and many find they are no longer the “big fish”. </p>
<p>I would have loved my son to have been accepted to RL, but he did not. I loved the whole classical education thing. He is now attending a lessor school, but it is a great fit. H and I are very, very happy with the lesser school.</p>
<p>Mamom, as a student at RL, I have to say that your assertion that RL tries to steer their kids to top schools is absurd. In fact, if anything, the exact opposite is true. I’ve seen several statements like this on CC and other forums and I can’t help but laugh from how different the statement is from my own experience. I mean its common knowledge from the student body that the head of college guidance essentially tries to push everyone from top schools, not because he has a problem with them, but because he thinks students are already considering them, and he wants to broaden their college search. But his favorite thing is when somebody goes to completly different college. For example, a kid who had been offered a spot on the baseball teams at Penn and Harvard decided to go to ECU instead, an the GC was ecstatic. He loves the variety. But, it is true that he discourages certain kids from applying to certain schools. First of all, I don’t see why telling kids near the bottom of the class not to apply to HYP shows that RL tries to send kids to the best schools possible. If you want as many acceptances as possible, don’t you want as many applicants as possible? But anyway, the reason the CG teachers do this is because they have intimate knowledge of these schools and relationships with people on the admission staff. For example, in one conversation with one of the counselors, he told me that the admission officer at one school had said that anyone from RL without X GPA and Y Sat score will no be taken y the school. Now, if he knows this information, and a kid without these stats applies to the school, then the counselor is going to discourage him from applying. I have heard of a couple of complaints about the college guidance office, and generally speaking, it has come from parents who see RL’s matriculation and then cannot accept the fact that their kid is not one of the abnormally high but still a minority of kids who get into HYP, and when the counselors tell them their kid has no shot, they accuse them treating kids at the top and bottom of the class starkly differently. </p>
<p>Mamom, I’m sorry is anything I said came off as attacking you personally. Obviously you were not trying to smear RL and have a lot of respect for the school, and I appreciate that. Its just that going to a school that really does mean what it says about caring about the character of its kids and trying to get them to lives lives of public service, I do feel insulted when someone portrays the school as a factory whose goal is beating the college system.</p>
<p>harvard_or-bust, I’m PMing you right now to respond to your thread and your PM</p>
<p>Thanks Kei-o-lei. What do you feel about the difference in getting into 7th vs 9th grade? Do they accept any students in the 8th grade? Did you consider any other schools?
Thanks</p>
<p>Thanks Mamom. We will definately be aware of this when we interview. </p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to answer.</p>
<p>tots33 - I think you just said the same thing I did. I agree with you, we just said it a little differently. </p>
<p>harvard<em>or</em>bust - It is much more difficult to get into the school in 9th grade than 7th. Much lower numbers of kids admitted. I am sure if you ask the admissions office what the stats are they will be forth coming. </p>
<p>Again, I loved this school and recommend anyone from the Boston area take a look at it. And compared to other day schools in the area, it is a bargain, not cheap, but a realtive bargain.</p>
<p>Thanks mamom. Thats what we are afraid of. We live in NY and were mainly thinking of 9th grade schools, so missed the 7th entry point. We do have our fingers crossed but if not we will try our 9th grade choices of Andover and Exeter as well.</p>
<p>Roxbury Latin is a day school, not a boarding school.</p>
<p>Thanks Periwinkle. We are going to move to Boston if my son gets in.</p>
<p>mamom said: “if your son is not one of the choosen kids to apply to HYP, for example but wants to apply there, they will discourage that application.”</p>
<p>In our experience, not true. They use Naviance with SATs and grade average to let us know what our realistic chances are but they in no way discouraged us. They both encouraged us to look at other schools so that we could fill out the reach/fit/safety groupings AND in no way discouraged us from including a HYPed school in the reach category. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if what we took as a helpful realistic discussion might be misinterpreted by others as discouraging :-)</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>Thanks Kei</p>
<p>What kind of qualities in boys that RL is looking for?</p>
<p>I’m bumping this thread because I am wondering the same as the thread poster. Does anyone have anything else to add about the Roxbury Latin School who attended or their children had attended? </p>
<p>One question I’m wondering about is do they mostly accept people who are Boston (or surrounding area) residents? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Unusual that a RL student would select ECU over two Ivies. Not something to brag about, in my opinion.
Aren’t many of the RL students children of Harvard profs ?</p>
<p>Dreamer- Father of an RL boy here. From my knowledge, RL accepts boys from all over and not just from Boston and vacinity. They have a strong commitment to accept Boston residents, however, the majority are not from Boston proper. Students come from as far west as Southborough, north from Boxborough and south from Duxbury. </p>
<p>Axelrod- Many of the RL students are not children of Harvard profs. CC has used that myth in the past to explain away RL’s high acceptance rate to Harvard. While there have been some Harvard profs children who have attended, I dont think its anymore than BB&N, Milton, Andover etc. and from my knowledge and experience, that situation just isnt true. Thanks.</p>