<p>TOM DALEY. OMIGOSH HE'S THE HOTTEST THING THAT EVER LIVED EEEEEEEEEEEEK <3</p>
<p>.. okay, it's probably not good to get me started. and he was in sychronized 10 metres platform, and 10 metres men's individual :)
and he won european champion at 13!
and british senior men's at 10!
and he won in all 3 categories at the Armada Cup!
.. okay, i'll stop now :)</p>
<p>is SPS a FANTABULOUS school?
i'm trying to decide between hotchkiss & sps
<3, lol</p>
<p>Yes it's fantabulous...choose SPS. I don't feel like typing why...go to revisits if you can and you'll know why.</p>
<p>LOL mpicz. XD</p>
<p>@ mehkins: go to revisits, and try not to check opinionated or biased posts on CC about either, because it's ridiculously easy to become biased and prefer one school over the other on facts that aren't even true.. check out the vibes of each school during the revisits. both schools are amaazing, so i doubt you could go wrong with either :)</p>
<p>Your went wrong if you choose hotchkiss over SPS. Just keep that in mind ;) j.k...not really</p>
<p>Ahaha, mehkins, since you're wait-listed at Hotchkiss.. Just pick SPS! You should feel totally honored for being accepted at a school like SPS, and besides, they probably want you more. True, there's all that garble about "not enough space" but surely there has to be a difference between the 1# candidate and somebody on the waitlist? :S</p>
<p>BTW: Isn't SPS a smaller school? Meaning.. fewer spots? >w></p>
<p>mehkins, you shouldn't even have to make a choice. You should go to SPS without a second thought :)!</p>
<p>choose hotchkiss!</p>
<p>Benevolent is jealous dont listen to him/her! But in all seriousness...if you go to both revisit days. Im sure you will choose St. Pauls if you initially liked it a little during your tour and interview.</p>
<p>LOL mpicz/ benevolent</p>
<p>@ bene: i don't suggest you say that on a forum about SPS. you'll probably get your head torn off.</p>
<p>.. instead, make a thread pointing out the obvious superiority of hotchkiss! woot!</p>
<p>kidding, kidding. but mehkins: come on, you weren't even accepted to hotchkiss (waitlist), and SPS is an amazing school, so just.. pick it? unless there's some huge, looming reason as to why you prefer hotchkiss.</p>
<p>I like SPS campus so much more than Hkiss! </p>
<p>I am so glad I did not send my "letter of not going" to SPS, I was going to send it but I had an amazing phone call with a teacher... It's tied for "1" with Milton right now...</p>
<p>haha</p>
<p>eek. whenever i see the word looming, i immediately think loomis.. great. this is what a CC addiction will do to you >_></p>
<p>@ principalviola: haha, which schools are your options??
i won't be allowed to visit (bawww) so I guess i'll have to base ranking of campuses off of their viewbooks, websites, and.. fellow CCers.</p>
<p>All HADES + Milton </p>
<p>Right now my "rank" is:
1. SPS/Milton
2. Andover
3. Hotchkiss/Exeter
4. Deerfield</p>
<p>All that being said, the delta is minimal. I am lucky to have such a wonderful choice of schools! </p>
<p>If you have been following my posts you know that SPS was not at the top but after a truly WONDERFUL conversation, it all changed!</p>
<p>Good! (10 Chara)</p>
<p>Crp1256: Best I have in front of me is the cumulative for the past three years (<a href="https://www.sps.edu/ftpimages/36/download/download_group3969_id351971.pdf%5B/url%5D">https://www.sps.edu/ftpimages/36/download/download_group3969_id351971.pdf</a> page 18). You might also look at ColdWindâs posts on this thread (like post #152). He seems to professionally track college admissions for all schools and colleges. There are lots of sources but his and PrepReviewâs seem like the most accurate and scientific. His statistics say that the following are âa class by themselvesâ.
Boarding Schoolâs ranked by College Placement Success:
1) St. Paul's School (New Hampshire)
2) Phillips Academy at Andover
3) Deerfield Academy
4) Groton School
BUT all the top schools are great, SO PLEASE letâs not get hung up on this stuff! If you want, go back and read the older material on this thread. Okay? Bottom line is that SPS is a truly great school with amazingly talented students. Other schools are good too. The best school for you will vary.</p>
<p>On the comparison between SPS and that âother schoolâ DiveAlive asked isnât âSPS a smaller school?â Yes, fractionally smaller. But keep in mind that that âother schoolâ has both PGâs and day students. So think that through. SPS has always refused to go that route. If you do well, you can make a team, no risk of a senior year theft by an athletic recruit. And you know all your classmates. Financially it is easier for a school to simply add revenue by admitting locals without building dorms and other facilities. SPS intentionally refuses to do that. </p>
<p>Thinks those âother schoolsâ need their OWN threads. Let's just stick to SPS here.</p>
<p>Is this PrepReview that you just posted? According to a accurate (but free :D) copy I have Milton and Exeter are in the top ten... If I am not mistaken it was</p>
<ol>
<li>SPS</li>
<li>DF (?)</li>
<li>Milton </li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks for the post..</p>
<p>Prep Review does list them in that order, but they only look at those students admitted to Ivy's +Stamford/MIT. Cold Wind looks at ALL schools and ALL students. Obviously there are many highly ranked colleges beyond those that PrepReview tracks and you may want to know not just where the 'top' 20 students do, but where do they ALL go. The numbers I posted were Cold Wind's ( on this thread, go to post #152 and forward and back). Clear? Now again, even the best rankings are silly/incomplete and make no effort to measure a whole individual, and no school comes with a warranty.</p>
<p>That makes sense... thanks. I'm glad he did that...</p>
<p>
<p>1) St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) 2) Phillips Academy at Andover 3) Deerfield Academy 4) Groton School</p>
<p>5) Milton Academy (50% boarding/50% day students) 6) Hotchkiss School 7) Lawrenceville School 8) Middlesex School 9) The United World College of the American West (New Mexico) 10) Choate Rosemary Hall (Connecticutt) 11) The Cate School (California) 12) St. Andrew's School (Delaware) 13) The Cranbrook Schools (Michigan) 14) St. George's School 15) Phillips Exeter Academy (New Hampshire) 16) The Thacher School (California)</p>
<p>The Top Four (4) Boarding Schools were in a class by themselves based on the most recent class matriculations for the prior 5 years. (For example, approx. 20% of the bottom half of graduating students at St. Paul's School matriculated at an Ivy. SPS doesn't rank students, but almost half of each class graduates with a "cum laude" designation; 20% of those who did not graduate "cum laude", "magna cum laude" or "summa cum laude" actually matriculated at an Ivy. This is astounding when considering that many in the graduating class of about 150 students did not even apply to an Ivy, and that many accepted to Ivies chose to attend Williams, Amherst, Stanford, MIT or other elite non-Ivies, although all US based, 4 year, college placements were factored into my survey results.) All prep boarding schools listed above were, & are, well within the top one (1%) percent of all schools in the nation for college placement success at the most highly selective 4 year US based colleges & universities.
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<p>When I read this it looks like he weighs Ivy/Selective school a lot more than others, I am a little surprised that DF is behind PA. Is he an active poster, anymore?</p>
<p>thank you! and no, I'm not getting hung up on anything. I am going to SPS next year and I was just curious.</p>