<p>It appears that the acceptance rate is low and standards are up at this quiet school. Who'sacepted and who went for 2nd visits.Comments please.</p>
<p>What's SGS? Is it St. George's School?</p>
<p>Yes, it's St. George's. ^^</p>
<p>Beautiful campus, good academics but not as renowned as those at schools on this board, nice students, faculty, etc.</p>
<p>It's good enough to be realized but many people on this board don't apply there or apply there as a safety/match. I would apply there, actually.</p>
<p>The St. George's and Tabor campuses blow me away every time. </p>
<p>Can we move Andover's campus and put it on the coast? Please??</p>
<p>St. George's is a very nice school...A true New England small BS with a good community feel.</p>
<p>Wait.. St. George's in British Columbia???</p>
<p>No, we're talking about the one in Rhode Island.</p>
<p>St. George's in BC is a great school, too, but it's all-boys.</p>
<p>im going to st george's next year!</p>
<p>i know.. amazing campuses. i applied to tabor (accepted) and almost applied to sgs, but was mad that i was too late for an interview, so i didn't go through with sneidng my recs in, although they have all of my essays and everything. my uncle told me he would send me there when i was in 8th grade. everytime i go to newport, i always see the campus (from out on the water, surfing) and just diee.. i've missed more than a few great waves staring at it. and great tennis courts too.. i had to play there once!</p>
<p>my cousin went to tabor and had a dorm room with an ocean view!!! and it was like, 10 x 15! isn't that crazy!</p>
<p>Congrats Prepchick! I wouldn't be able to say enough about St. George's. It is a hidden gem. Sometimes I think the less play it gets on CC the better.</p>
<p>prepchick91 -- Congratulations and happy sailing!</p>
<p>thanks! its the perfect school for me..i fell in love when i pulled in the gates</p>
<p>St. Georges has been around forever. similar toa middlesex</p>
<p>What do you sets some schools on the road to fame and prestige and others onto more obscure paths?</p>
<p>SGS is anything but obscure. It is one of the original St. Grotlesex schools that enrolled the scions of American society. Today, SGS is still,very popular with kids from around the world. I think we must all be careful not to judge schools good or bad by what CC says. This is certainly a good source but, not the ultimate judge of schools. SGS is stiil a quite prestigious school that more recently has upped the ante on their choice of students.</p>
<p>I completely second what prepparent says. I am becomingly increasingly concerned about the misinformaton on this board.</p>
<p>St. George's is indeed not obscure; I would dare say that it is actually more prestigious than many of the schools often discussed on this board. It's location in Newport helped make it the frequent choice of a particular social set in the early and mid 1900's such as the Astor's, the Roosevelts, Prescott Bush (the founder of the Bush 'dynasty'), and the Brown's (founders of Brown Univ, incidentally who made their money originally in the slave trade) among many others. David Brooks actually referred to St. George's in a NYTimes article comparing George Bush and Howard Dean as more "socially exclusive" (as I recall that was the phrase) than Andover. One last comment... the school is older than Middlesex and, at least in my opinion, boasts the most beautiful campus of any school anywhere.</p>
<p>On another note, in comparison to schools like andover, exeter, taft, hotchkiss etc st. george's is Episcopalian and so the school is similar in that respect to st. paul's and groton (with a chapel to rival). The St. Grottlesex schools were originally thought of as the schools that in their purpose and function were most similar to the seven famous British public schools (I cite here that social historian digby batlzell)</p>
<p>Yes, SGS is not hidden.</p>
<p>But I would have a very, very hard time going as far as to say that SGS is as eqally prominent as Andover.</p>
<p>I don't believe that is what David Brooks said (<a href="http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/981758/posts%5B/url%5D">http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/981758/posts</a> - it was originally in the NYT).... socially exclusive and prominent are completely different observations.</p>