Schools with excellent science programs?

[emmy14045]

<p>I'm very interested in science and am considering applying to boarding schools in the fall. Any recommendation for schools with strong science programs?</p>

[cameo43]

<p>Many schools have strong science programs – two schools which have recently expanded their science programming and facilities are Berkshire and Choate. Both quite noteworthy. A girls’ school with an excelect science program is Westover. They have a co-curricular program called WISE (women in science and engineering).</p>

[ChoatieMom]

<p>You might want to check out the Science Research Program at Choate:</p>

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The Science Research Program (SRP) offers motivated and independent science students the opportunity to practice true laboratory science. The limitations of time, expertise, equipment, and/or space in a typical high school science program do not allow for the level of scientific inquiry and experimentation that is the hallmark of true science research done at the university level. The SRP fills these aforementioned gaps by ultimately linking each student with a professional scientist in whose lab the student will participate in ongoing research or address a novel scientific question through experimentation. </p>

<p>This honors program consists of three linked segments: 1) three terms of training in the basics of scientific inquiry and experimentation, 2) a summer of research in a university (or similar) laboratory, and 3) a final term assembling a manuscript of the summer work that aims to meet the standards of a professional publication. View past student projects.</p>

<p>The four courses and the required summer component that make up the SRP are described in the Science section of the Course Catalogue.</p>

<p>SRP Application Process</p>

<p>Students are accepted to the SRP based on their written application and an interview with the program coordinators. Admission to the program is based as much on maturity, motivation, and commitment to independent work as on the strength of one’s record in science. Students apply in the spring of their fourth form year for admission to the program in their fifth form year. Once accepted to the program, students are expected to complete all three segments. However, the program coordinators, in consultation with the student, may ask a student to withdraw from the program if the student is not meeting the expectations of the program.

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[PelicanDad]

<p>Check out Brooks School’s program which puts students into internships in Boston area medical institutions and tech firms. Very unique program.</p>

[2prepMom]

<p>Both Andover and Exeter have excellent sciences, including molecular genetics programs, with opportunities for university affiliated research. Andover has a very good PhD molecular genetics professor, and Exeter teams up with Stanford. Physics is another strength at both A and E.</p>

<p>For STEM students, the math will also be important, inquire into how many students populate the advanced classes. “Independent study” may not be the best option if there are few peers.</p>

[prepschoolplease]

<p>I know that Hotchkiss and Exeter are the only 2 schools in NE that have a DNA splicer. I don’t know how that correlates with the level of their science programs, but I assure you that they provide some very great science programs.</p>