<p>How have your friends/family/etc. reacted to the fact that you might be leaving? Mine have been overall supportive. I have one friend who has been 100% supportive of my decision. He's the greatest! Have any of you had friends who were totally against this?</p>
<p>My mom was:
Jan 08- NO.
Aug 08- MAYBE.
Nov 08- (after a visit) YES. PLEASE.
Now- YES.
She was wowed by Choate, haha.</p>
<p>My friends are all like- Oh, nooo, we don’t want you to leaaave!! But I think most people in my school would secretly be glad to get rid of me. I’m very loud, opinionated, and (unfortunately) intelligent. Which means I’m automatically hated by 90% of people, especially those that have known me since kindergarten. Plus I’m a weirdo!
But my best friends are so supportive.</p>
<p>AHAHA.
Same here! My mom was all “NO YOU’RE NOT MATURE ENOUGH!” but as soon as we saw Andover and Exeter’s campus she was telling me how great it would be there. Moms are weird.</p>
<p>VERY weird. But great. 
She told me 3 schools. Then we visited Choate and she told me to apply to NMH. It was weird haha.</p>
<p>Oh, my mom insisted that I only apply to two: Exeter and Andover. I hear people talking about how they applied to like 7 and I’m like whoaa.</p>
<p>My parents just about peed their pants when I told then. They were so excited about the opportunities and the great education. I come from a family that is deeply involved in education, so they were all really excited. My friends had to warm up to the idea but are happy for me now.</p>
<p>my friends have been great. they want me to get in, but they keep saying they don’t want me to leave. i totally relate to saer, some people would love to see me gone. but not many. however, i embrace being weird, because without it, you would be normal :O</p>
<p>pardon my weird logic</p>
<p>Mom: NO. still to this days he doesn’t want me to go, but she might allow it.
Dad: YES. he understands the opportunities and wants me to be able to get a better education.
Twin Sister: Supportive, to a point. The fact that we are twins and i am possibly leaving makes her sad, plus she is going to miss my clothes :D</p>
<p>Friends: Mostly against it. I haven’t told many except my very close friends (so about five people know) but they want me to get in but they dont want me to leave. I kind of get back at them though because we al go to different schools, so it wont be that big of a deal. but my friends are definitely praying i get rejected, which kind of hurts.</p>
<p>My friends are like. “NO SHUT UP YOU ARE GOING TO xxxx WITH US!” And they refuse to even let me try to convince them it would be absolutely amazing if I got into any of the schools I applied for. Other people at my school just do the fake sad pouty “Why are you leaving us” face, but I doubt they’d really care if I did go.</p>
<p>And my parents… Like, my mom really wants for me to get in, but I think a part of her reallly doesn’t want me to go, because we were watching COllege Road Trip and she just started bawling at the part where the girl leaves her parents for college. And during the whole movie my dad kept sighing and shooting reaaaaaaally obvious looks at me. He doesn’t want me to go at ALL, even if I get in.</p>
<p>My mom took about 2 years and several of her friends telling her how much they enjoyed boarding to convince her, but at this point she is relatively ok with BS… sort of.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>Mom in August: No
Mom in October: No!
Mom in November: NO!
Mom in December: NO!!
Mom in January: I ALREADY SAID NO!
Mom in February: ARE YOU DEAF? UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER, NO!!!
darn. i haven’t asked her yet this month, so we’ll see how that works out. :)</p>
<p>Friends: Oh no. What did you do?
… they’re under this illusion that boarding schools are entirely military or something. LOL.</p>
<p>My friends dont really want me leaving…but I mean what friend would WANT their friend to leave</p>
<p>my parents, well they kinda brought it up cause I have legacy at 1 school so I go to alum events ect. and all the people who work at the school who know my dad r like “are you going to apply” “your applying right” ect… so we were driving home from an event at the school and we just had a tacit (hehe. vocab word) agreement that I would apply. and so I did.</p>
<p>My sister already goes to boarding school. My mom asked me over last summer “Hey ___, how do you feel about boarding school? Do you want to go?”</p>
<p>I was like “whatever.” </p>
<p>I’m more involved in the process now…</p>
<p>ack! people, if your parents automatically let/encouraged you to go to boarding school, you have no idea how lucky you are. D:</p>
<p>some of my friends are more extreme on leaving than others</p>
<p>most of them have accepted there’s a chance I won’t attend my current school next year. others have tried to demerit boarding schools altogether to steer me away from the appeal of them. their reasoning was very flawed, however…</p>
<p>haha… I haven’t told my friends… but they do know that my sister goes…</p>
<p>wake up call when I tell them…</p>
<p>Yea I’m going to say the exact same thing as Muffinqueen, except my mom thinks I have a better opportunity at my public high school and dad really wants me to get in.</p>
<p>All the best… Middlesex forever!!</p>
<p>My friends have no idea that I’m applying.
My parents have really mixed feelings about it.
The idea of attending a college-prep boarding school was entirely mine and I don’t want to discuss it too much with others until I know whether I’m accepted or not.
I know how my decision may be viewed by others. Currently I live in an environment where it’s really uncommon to go abroad to study in a private school and I’m sure that many people won’t be able to understand why I want to do it.</p>
<p>i feel the same way. no one really gets why i’m going. my friend and his sister are applying to 10 schools this year, but i think it’s cuz his parents are making him. he doesn’t understand why i wanna go so much</p>
<p>My parents were extremely against the idea earlier, but they were “woo’d” by the schools, just by the website. </p>
<p>My friends, well… I am sure they will be sad but people seriously hate the people who set curves. One of my ex-friends took my test and switched the name and I almost got suspended for going in after school and changing names… </p>
<p>Oh well, I hope this life will just be a… long lost past…</p>