Select 16, not HADES

Prep School Admissions
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<p>For those hung up on prestige, Peter Cookson and Caroline Hodges Persell identified the "Select 16" in their book, Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools. The Select 16 are:</p>

<p>Choate
Deerfield
Episcopal High School (VA)
Groton
Hill School (PA)
Hotchkiss
Kent
Lawrenceville
Middlesex
Phillips Andover Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
St. George's School
St. Mark's School
St. Paul's School
Taft School
Woodberry Forest School (VA)</p>

<p>Other schools are also prestigious. From the Harvard Crimson, I found an article about the advantages of prep schools, which mentions Roxbury Latin, Boston Latin, and Stuyvesant, as well as the Select 16. The</a> Harvard Crimson :: News :: Preparatory schools & The admissions process.</p>

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<p>those are definitely the schools most often mentioned on cc, with the exception of woodberry i believe. i haven’t heard of it until now, so i can’t account on its greatness of anything…</p>

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<p>My Choate interviewer made fun of Woodberry. He was an alumni interviewer in my city. I asked him if I seemed like a good fit(I was expecting the same old, “yes, you will find a home here”.) He told me that if I was applying to Woodberry he said that he would have tried to explain why it isn’t like a classic New England boarding school. I’m supposedly more of the “classic New England” schools look for according to him.</p>

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<p>^ LOL nice XD</p>