<p>This is a spin-off on the parents cafe of why parents are sending their children to boarding school. Now us teens have the chance to voice our reasons as to why we chose boarding school and to leave our families and friends. Personally, I chose boarding school to benefit my education and get in to Yale and I think, for me, boarding school is the only way to do that. So tell me, why are you going to boarding school?</p>
<p>this thread has already been created :)</p>
<p>-i chose boarding school to get out of my small, underacheiver filled high school, and get into harvard!
also, by going to boarding school,
i wont have to spend 4 hours a day commuting to activities such as the gym and dance</p>
<p>I will be getting away from such a terrible school and into a school with people who want to learn and do good. Not as many (if any) people will misbehave. I will be able to get into a good school for college. I will be able to do all of the extracurricular activities that I want to that I would not have the opportunity to do at public school.</p>
<p>my town has a new high school. it will be great in a few years but there are issues now. the school just finished its first year with some things not working out well. time will fix things but i did not want to be guinea pig. plus many of my friends are going away as well and i want more of a challenge then i would get at home.</p>
<p>Ohhh, please don't say college. As a current boarding school student, I have learned all too well that boarding school is not a get into Harvard free card. One could argue (very convincingly) that it is much easier to get into Harvard from a school that is filled with underachievers, where there's more room to stand out. Boarding school doesn't make you the perfect college applicant. Boarding schools tend to have impressive college matriculations because high-achieving students are attracted to them -- for the most part, they arrived on campus that way. Now yes, boarding school does an unparalleled job as far as college preparation, and many alumni say that college was a breeze post-boarding school... but I have a feeling that being prepared for college is not as much of a priority as getting in. Okay. I'll butt out now. :) A lot of the reasons to choose boarding school on this board -- more extracurricular opportunities, motivated students -- are excellent, but I just wanted to clear up any misconceptions.</p>
<p>well, i also want to go to boarding school because I live in a very uneducated area and i want to excel. college is very important, but not everything to me.</p>
<p>college offers me opportunities that I would never have at my current school. :) I love the school I go to now (I realized that after I got accepted and decided I was going to go to boarding school. It kind of hit me on the last day at school :P) but I'm more excite about learning with people who are all really just excited to be at school and everything. I suppose I'm just kind of done with being one of the very few people in class who willingly answer questions. :P</p>
<p>my school has never,
in all the years its been around,
have a student go to an ivy league college.
so ya...
that might explain some of my reason for wanting to leave!</p>
<p>im so excited about going and meeting kids from other countries!
actually,
im just excited :)</p>
<p>i can't wait to leave my "I don't care" teachers and study in a school where everyone really cares about sth.</p>
<p>ntmngoc
I agree completely. I'm also ready to leave 30-50 student classes and all the other horrors of (my) public school.</p>
<p>Impulse, the excitement of doing something new. I can peg it off as extracurriculars and that kids actually care about education, but those are just sealing the deal. It is something new, and invigorating to try. Oh, and I have been wanting to go since 4th grade when I read Harry Potter!</p>
<p>was anyone else extremely dissappointed when they didnt receive a letter from hogwarts the summer when they were 11?
haha</p>
<p>not saying i was of course <em>cough cough</em>
:D</p>
<p>ohmygod, ballerina. i was so disappointed. it was hearbreaking. : )</p>
<p>hehehe.</p>
<p>I want a challenge.</p>
<p>Look, being the highest acheiving kid in your school when you don't even study doesn't appeal to me. really.</p>
<p>And it's mad unorganized here.</p>
<p>But I never said that. Mmkay?</p>
<p>Im going to boarding school for better academics and the hockey is better than a lot of other places</p>
<p>I want to go to boarding school because the school system where I am sets 'ceilings' on what we can do.</p>
<p>Like, I had a question on something in my algebra book.
My teacher FIRST. tried to explain something that SOUNDED like my question. but when I asked it again she refused to explain it to me because it wasn't determined by the state as something taught on the standarized tests.
And also I didn't even finish an essay I was supposed to turn in during class but I got a 100 and extra credit because I was the only person in my entire class to do the assignment. </p>
<p>It's getting a little old, y'know?</p>
<p>sounds like my public school :)</p>
<p>for me, it was definitely about the opportunities. there are numerous athletic and academic opportunities i would have been deprived of if I stayed at my public school. </p>
<p>I currently attend a decent public school, compared to many others. nonetheless, 85% of the student body could not care less about school. frankly, that learning environment is horrible.</p>
<p>The opportunites. It'll be harder for me to get into my dream colleges through Andover yet I think it'll be a worthwhile experience that'll help mould and stimulate me. </p>
<p>I want to compete with the best students so I picked the best school. It may compromise my chances at a Tier 1 school but it'll give a true education to me. A lot of people think that schools are to create education and not minds but I think at Andover it'll do that and if it makes me a better person and student then its worth not going to a Tier 1 school for undegrad. There's always time to go to top Tier 1 graduate schools.</p>
<p>definatley academics and college were a huge point, but also other amazing opportunities</p>