Did you get accepted to a Gem (Hidden or Not)? Post it here!
Following last two year’s tradition by @PhotographerMom
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1624442-2014-hidden-gems-acceptance-list-p1.html
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1471444-the-2013-hidden-gems-acceptance-list-p1.html
More on a “Gem”
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/15597915/#Comment_15597915
I’ll start,
Berkshire and Mercersburg
Loomis (not quite hidden, but a gem) and NMH
It was great to see so many “Gem” acceptances this year on the Decision Thread! Congratulations!!
Solebury and Westover 
Madeira and Cranbrook.
I feel like Cranbrook is a really good school, but NO ONE ever talks about it, so I can’t judge…
Being outside of the New England boarding school culture, I don’t quite get what makes any of these marvelous schools “hidden.” But I do think Mercersburg is a gem among gems.
Do not judge a school’s quality by how much or how little it is talked about on this forum…
I can absolutely guarantee there are MANY more excellent schools outside the 8 most talked about.
Accepted to Tilton
@prepster1234 Congratulations! Tilton campus was very pretty. Some kids (from Brewster or New Hampton?) said we have better sports team but Tilton surely has prettier campus.
This is the Hidden Gem thread…
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/16557988/#Comment_16557988
born after this was closed
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/16220341/#Comment_16220341
And Hidden Gem College Matriculation List
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18112666/#Comment_18112666
Accepted at Tabor and Westminster (Rarely discussed here) and Kent, Loomis, and Miss Porter’s (Not hidden, but gems all the same!)
DD accepted to Episcopal High School and Mercersburg Academy. She is well aware that she is very fortunate. Revisiting EHS 3/23 and MB on 4/7. We live 15 mins from PEA and 40 from SPS and Andover, all marvelous schools. However, whenever I can, I encourage parents and students to beyond usual suspects in NH. Advice falls on deaf ears.
S accepted to NMH and St. Mark’s. We’ll do revisits, but as of now he’s having a tough time deciding.
Episcopal, Miss Porter’s, Madeira, Pomfret, The Masters, Kent!
Blair, Brooks, Porters, St. Georges.
I got accepted to two hidden gems Tabor and Berkshire (also Peddie and Pomfret, but not as much of hidden gems)
Pomfret, Westminster, Kent (does Kent even count?)
@SevenDad @london203 Oh, no, I’m not judging them by how much they’re talked about on this forum… Not like THAT. I meant, people almost never review schools like Madeira and Cranbrook, so it’s hard to get a clear idea of what it’s like to be a student there. If you look at the more talked-about schools, you pretty much know what a certain school offers and what its students are like. I can’t tell how good Cranbrook is because there are hardly any reviews about it. The data’s all good, but I just want some student input on what it’s like studying there as a whole. I don’t want to enroll and find that it’s way too artsy, for example, and doesn’t focus enough on academics. Or that the students are all rich kids and clique-y. An inside student opinion would help with these things.
That’s all I meant when I say “talked about”. (: