<p>What's the reputation of the Taft School in Connecticut? It doesn't seem to get mentioned often, but people I've talked to in person had great things to say...Any other comments are appreciated. Thanks</p>
<p>I visited Taft and hated it. Initially, it was one of my favorites. Once I toured I got the impression that it was just super AVERAGE. Not one thing stood out to me. Throughout the tour and interview I didn’t hear or see one thing that would make me want to go there. The girl’s dorms were really dirty and gross, too. A family friend goes to taft and says as a boarder, the weekends empty out since day students go home and most boarders leave. The reputation far exceeds the reality of Taft.</p>
<p>I LOVED Taft. It is currently my #1 choice. When my family and I visited it was as if the skies parted and the weather was perfect(which it was 
). I loved the people and the campus seemed nice. The dorms were a bit lacking but I wouldn’t say gross. They just weren’t Berkshire (Who’s dorms were basically hotels complete with uniformed maid :/). Apparently I have had the exact opposite impression of Taft that LOLZbabe. It seems like a place where I’d really ‘fit’. :)</p>
<p>Write your impression when they visited your top schools…What it like you expected it to be? Which you will like to attend next fall?</p>
<p>I’ve not visited Taft yet!! It seems beautiful…</p>
<p>For those of you who judge a school by its dorms…think deeper…</p>
<p>I attend a boarding school and after the first two weeks it doesnt matter what dorm you’re in…does it have bathrooms? okay. good. are the rooms not super tiny? okay. good. is there internet? okay. good. thats all you need. If you’re an active student, I’ve found you never really spend that much time in your dorm other than at night when you do homework and of course sleep.</p>
<p>Taft is a great school! - definitely ranks as one of the top. The academics are challenging, but it’s not cut-throat. The campus and athletic facilities are top notch, and the community of teachers and students are very supportive.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone who has posted so far. If anyone else has info or opinion about Taft, please post. We are still undecided, although it’s near the top of our list without knowing much about it. Also, any information about the surrounding community would be helpful as well.</p>
<p>well…its very pretty? haha There wasn’t too big of a town it wasn’t all too far from school, if i recall correctly. :)</p>
<p>I thought the Taft campus was very nice, but then again, I visited in summer. The library seemed like a great place to work in. The only thing that irked me was that some of the architecture seemed kind of um, gothic. I expected there to be gargoyles perched on the sides of the buildings or something (maybe there are…) And at least there WAS a real town with restaurants, etc. close by.</p>
<p>Well at least it HAS an actual style of architecture, and not some kind of jumbelaya of new age modern-esque crap that didn’t quite work out. Or it wasn’t overly renovated <em>coughberkshirecough</em>.</p>
<p>Jambalaya</p>
<p>Good analogy though!</p>
<p>hey, I was winging it! </p>
<p>Also, in case anyone didn’t know, Taft’s new dining hall will be finished by next year.</p>
<p>I think it would be very hard to find a finer looking school than Taft. Between the warm architecture, the interconnectedness of the buildings, the playing fields and the overall self-contained air the place exudes, it is really what a school – not a would-be college(round up the usual suspects) – but what a SCHOOL should look like.</p>
<p>It is one of the few campuses I have seen that seems to speaks to the very soul of youthful learning. </p>
<p>But beware: if you are one of those who feels that you are actually a young adult, rather than the awkward not child/not adult adolescent that you actually are, and you want to skip secondary education (a crucial part of formal learning) altogether and simply go on to college, then apply elsewhere…but you may just miss something that can never be recaptured.</p>
<p>i did not visit berkshire what their new athletic facility is amazing lets not get ahead of ourselfs here</p>
<p>i agree w/ leanid. thats exactly the feel i got from it. main reason i want to go there :)</p>
<p>im just saying that the lightbulb joke is actually true sports are more important then school sorry that just the truth i know a alot ofstupid kids who went there cuase they could pay full. and all the outstanding FA candidates go to hades not taft so its an okay school not great it also has wayyyy too big a focus on sports</p>
<p>well i do three sports so i think i’m good haha. i would rather go to a school w/ fun athletic, less smart people than a school w/ non-athletic shut ins who have straight As :/</p>
<p>Hcos,</p>
<p>Your posting would be more credible if the writing were polished up a bit. For example,
how do you expect people to believe what you say when you use “then” where ‘than’ should be? If that can be attributed to mere “laziness” – an often used excuse by those making the same sorts of errors – then why should your readers not infer that your reasoning powers may be just as lazy?</p>
<p>Rad… if you really think that any of these schools are populated only or primarily by non-athletic shut-ins who have straight A’s, then you actually know very little about these schools. In addition, very, very few of the athletic people are the less smart types that you allude to. Are you perhaps projecting yourself onto these schools’ students?</p>