I haven’t told anybody except my family that I am applying to boarding school. It is very uncommon to go to boarding school where I live. There are no private schools anywhere near where I live. Must people don’t understand the idea of boarding school or why my family would spend so much money for me to go. How and when should I start telling people that I am going?
My advice is to only tell people when you are definitely sure that you are going. When you do tell them, make it factual and casual. Just tell them that you won’t be attending whatever local school you would normally be going to because you were offered an amazing opportunity to enrich your education. Most people should understand. And the people that don’t understand? Well, you aren’t going to be seeing them too much in the future.
When you should tell them? After you get in. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, because you never know what will happen.
How? Do what goldenfygg said: Just be casual about it.
Don’t worry about this now, because you are going to be doubly heartbroken if you don’t get in (if you plan what you are going to do before).
@prepster1234: I am in the same situation as you, so I know how you feel also in the way that “it is uncommon to go to BS where you live.” Currently, only my family members and a few other adults (my recommenders) are the ones that know I am applying to BS. I am waiting on telling my friends that I applied to (and hopefully was accepted to) BS after March 10. To be honest, part of the reason why I am not telling my friends about BS is because 1) They will not understand it and from #1, 2) They will possibly stress me out before M10 OR excessively “get my hopes up.”
I would DEFINITELY mention it AFTER admissions decisions on M10. If you feel the need to tell your friends, you could just mention something (just a possibility) along the lines of “I am applying to these really great schools, but to tell you more information it would have to be in March.”
I haven’t brought it up much with my friends. I mentioned it to one because she’s obsessed with Harry Potter and I showed her how one school looks like Hogwarts. But no one knows if I’ll actually be going, so I’ll wait until after April 10.
Pretty much half of my year knows I’m leaving, I think I have made a mistake oops
@stargirl3 Which school looks like Hogwarts?
@mathman1201 Well… uh… a source told me that they asked Taft to film the Harry Potter movies there but the headmaster declined.
Actually, Emma Willard is often referred to as “the Hogwarts school”. It even has gargoyles. The interiors are strikingly similar, except the staircases don’t move. ( at least, they didn’t move while we were visiting…). 
Ah, it would be awesome to live at a school that looks like Hogwarts.
I wonder why the headmaster declined. Wouldn’t it have given Taft a lot of fame?
When we say “looks like Hogwarts,” what are we comparing the school to?
@mathman1201: I don’t think the main point here is fame. Taft is already famous as a BS. I think the reason why the headmaster declined was for the well-being of the students and teachers. Having camera crews and loads of different actors/actresses swarming your school can be disruptive and maybe even intimidating to the students. Also, the camera crews would be filming all day/all night occasionally and it would be loud at night for students to sleep. Just my thoughts.
Oh, that’s right.