<p>I truly believe that both high school and college mold your character and sometimes, change your life. However, the impact of college is probably bigger.</p>
<p>And MDog795--are you planning to apply to Choate for the 09-10 school year? You could always stay back a grade--I've heard that a lot of boarding school students do that.</p>
<p>aminitna, im average age so i don't think thats an option</p>
<p>Oh. But you could still apply for 10th if you want.</p>
<p>Yeah, I guess I might do that if I don't get into any schools I apply to late this year, but if I do decide to stay in 9th at my school, there's like only 15 people in my grade.</p>
<p>Bescraze, you sure you go to "one of those elite new england preps schools and plenty of kids go Ivy and plenty go to **** schools, and will not end up successful?" </p>
<p>Because, if you have so little confidence in the innate dignity of your school, and identify so little with the ethos of the school, then perhaps you aren't a legitimate prep. Or is this an uniquely American trait?</p>
<p>Or maybe you are right. I don't know. Maybe that lack of pride, and poor sense of ethos. are the reason American prep schools have never attained the prominence and greatness that have been the hallmark of great British (Eton, Harrow, Rugby, so on), Swiss (le Rosey), and even colonial (Geelong Grammar of Australia, Upper Canada College of Canada) schools. Because people like you have no pride in what are probably more exclusive institutions than Ivy Leagues. And if you can't even take pride in that, of course, if will not aid you in success.</p>
<p>To wit, I will repeat, "no Old Etonian (Old Harrovian, Old Rugbeian, Old [Geelong] Grammarian, whatever) was ever looked down upon for not having gone to Oxbridge." No one. zip. Eton isn't even within the top 50 academic rankings in the UK for independent schools.</p>
<p>I agree one hundred percent with you, sf606508. Keep speaking the truth.</p>
<p>you tell 'em!</p>
<p>bezcraze: "No one cares where you went to HS, maybe your friends you met there will, but no one else. All that matters is where you go to college from there." Look at the list of CEOs, CFO, SVPs of fortune 500 companies or the list of top docs or the list of top lawyers and see what a very small % went to top colleges.</p>
<p>The education in learning at a prep school probably far outdoes that of a college.</p>
<p>One of my best friends in his 70s did Thatcher. He still keeps in contact with the majority of his class vs only several from his college.</p>
<p>Prep schools have changed alot in the past 10 years from "the old boys club" to a melting pot. Look at the numbers of senior state dept. who went to Exeter....</p>
<p>Princess'dad you are old. Hehehe, J/K
I do think Prep School plays a vital part in peoples lives, and so does college.
Why cant we all get along and say they are both equal? lol</p>
<p>I agree with Princess' Dad. Boarding school students are more influenced by their high schools than their colleges. I think it is because they have spent part of their formative childhood years there and the school is responsible for their safety and well-being as well as their education. A boarding school is much more a residential community than a college or university.</p>
<p>College is a completely different experience which is largely formed by the student. The college offers courses and activities, but you are considered an adult and are on your own to make your choices.</p>
<p>The boarding school graduates that I know give more money to their boarding schools, not their colleges.</p>
<p>In response to the poster above who said "who cares about where you went to high school", I think boarding school graduates do, because their schools are nationally known. For the rest of us who attended the 28,000+ high schools in this country, we are unlikely to run into anyone from the same school. The schools are only locally known. People do talk about where they went to college, but there are only about 4000 colleges and universities, so they are much more likely to be known to the other person in the conversation.</p>
<p>Boarding schools DEFINITELY influence their students.
I was just reading Angels And Demons by Dan Brown, and he made a reference to "Saturday morning english classes at Phillips Exeter Academy" hahah
In the Exeter inquiry book, it mentions a quote from Dan Brown about how he was told by his writing teacher that he was a terrible writer hahah :]</p>
<p>haha. thats really funny.
i read that book a while ago, before i knew anything about boarding schools, so i totally didnt notice that.</p>
<p>Dan Brown's English teacher was right. Great storyteller yes, great writer not even close.</p>
<p>I agree with the funster.</p>
<p>Well
I feel its what you look for in a high school experience.
If you want a good community, but not as much rigor as andover and exeter, and a smaller school, I'd like to nominate Hill School</p>
<p>I think starryeyed says it correct. The guaranteed ivy from exeter, etc no longer holds (at least, so say several college admit people - stanford and harvard). Thus, I think you need to pick the school that offers what you want and then look at SATs and SSAT scores. I did notice a big diff in averages in last year's Peterson vs an older one in are library.</p>
<p>Im on a posting bananzaaaaa. lol
It seems to be the bigger the school is the less kids go to Ivy, I may be wrong, thats what I discovered.</p>
<p>not true....
ALL I HAVE TO SAY</p>
<p><em>AS i SLAP AUSSIE</em></p>
<p>ROFL....jk wait no not jk</p>
<p>lol
Ill slap you right back.
Wait I cant hit girls. lol
Darn it.
If you were a guy it would be oh so ON!
YEAH!
Hehe
Choate has great matriculations! lol</p>