<p>*Lawrentians.</p>
<p>And being jerks isn’t the intention here, it’s a FRIENDLY bashing of a FRIENDLY ATHLETIC RIVAL.</p>
<p>Sorry if we’re coming off the wrong way here, it’s hard to communicate online in a forum like this, but if we were in an actual conversation, I’d see it going like this (Hill Person Knowing I’m a Lawrentian):</p>
<p>Me: What’s up dude?
Hill Person: Oh, I made a decision! I’m going to Hill!
Me: <em>Punches HP on the shoulder, laughing</em> "Hill? C’mon man, you’re going to Hill?
HP: Yeah… Do you have something to say about it? <em>smiling</em>
Me: Well, besides it being Hill? I mean, we do beat you pretty much every year in Hill Weekend.
HP: But we’re still better than you.</p>
<p><em>engages in a long debate about which school is better</em></p>
<p>EDIT: and I win. :)</p>
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<p>S2 has a number of classmates who were rejected or WL by every school they applied to. They’d give their left t****cle to be offered admission by a famous school like Hill…</p>
<p>Some people are clearly taking this too seriously.</p>
<p>Did you see my post up there about the FRIENDLY part?</p>
<p>To the Hill bashers here. Is your message to prospective applicants: do NOT apply to the Hill School; do not consider Hill at all? Because that is what you are in essence doing.</p>
<p>If you have something negative and SUBSTANTIVE to share, to help a prospective candidate/applicant make an informed decision about a major life decision, then by all means voice your concern. Otherwise, your trash talk does a great disservice.</p>
<p>I mean, I personally wouldn’t mind, but that’s dependent upon the prospective applicants. If I was a perspective applicant looking on this site, like I was a couple years ago, and I saw a thread where some CLEARLY BIASED minority of the field was bashing a single school (and to those who can’t understand that it’s for fun, I understand, it’s hard to understand things on the internet without the tone and all that (I used a lot of understands there)) I wouldn’t let them form my opinion of a school.</p>
<p>@GMTplus7 What I said about Hill’s naming was not meant as anything negative toward the school. I don’t really know anything about it, except that it’s a great place, and my comment was meant as a light joke. </p>
<p>Also, I would never choose not to go to a school based solely on its name. The same thing goes for Brown (and that happens to be one of my favorite colors). After all, most schools get their name from the town they’re in, and that’s not particularly exciting either.</p>
<p>You’d be surprised how seriously newbies to the forum take your comments. S1 didn’t want to look at Deerfield because someone posted online that it’s a safety school for Choate. </p>
<p>Well, then to all newbies: DON’T TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY IT’S A JOKE!!!</p>
<p>Just to muck up things and help set the bar for the PHLEMS, L’Ville and Hill are noted. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/american-boarding-schools?src=soc_fcbks#slide-1”>American Boarding Schools - Best American Boarding Schools;
<p>Strange list. I wonder what the unifying theme was for Town&Country to select these particular schools? Tonyness?</p>
<p>I’m reading the T&C site on my phone. Maybe the full html website has more info.</p>
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<p>Bad reporting? Justin-Siena is not a boarding school.</p>
<p>It was quite an odd accumulation of schools. It didn’t seem as if they had any criteria, considering they had day, single-gender, and other strange combinations you don’t typically see on lists such as that.</p>
<p>Virginia Episcopal School? Something wrong w plain ole Episcopal? </p>
<p>Justin-Siena School??? Shouldn’t a list of BOARDING schools have boarding already? It’s only starting its new program this fall.</p>
<p>And why not mention that Fay is a JBS?</p>
<p>Really weird list…</p>
<p>Maybe it is a headline that was created to boost magazine sales. The reporters thought they would throw this together and probably a few parents who chase this type of prestige bought the magazine for the article. </p>
<p>Many of those schools aren’t even the most prestigious. It’s missing quite a few that would fit the bill more than, say, Justin-Sierra: Hotchkiss, Loomis, SPS, Roxbury Latin, EHS, and even more.</p>
<p>What’s up with the list? Very strange but I guess they can’t please us meticulous CCers ;)</p>
<p>I agree. :)</p>
<p>You don’t need to attend a school to know about it. If your brother or a cousin attends one, you can get a good picture. I know you don’t attend Hill. How do you know it’s a fine prep school?</p>