<p>Hello. I've heard through CC that creating a thread where you can keep all the questions is a great idea. So, following that advice, I am creating a Peddie thread, where future applicants can post their questions. Thanks.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for this! I have a few questions.</p>
<p>What are the teachers like at Peddie? (I’ve heard about a harassment that discouraged me from applying, but I am still going to try)</p>
<p>Are the academics rigorous? The athletics? Arts?</p>
<p>Is community service readily available?</p>
<p>When you go to Peddie, or really, any boarding school, can you get a job? Or is it too difficult?</p>
<p>More to come, but so far I like the place. The viewbook advertises it well.</p>
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<p>Hi Nadizzle,</p>
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<li><p>The teachers only want to help. My sibling, who goes to Peddie, can email the English teacher for instant feedback and a ballpark grade. All the teachers know you around campus it seems. When I came for revisit day, they were nothing but nice to me.</p></li>
<li><p>I think the academics are rigorous. Certainly not like the “top” schools in the country, but they’re really great. They have good matriculation, including some Ivies. They recently renovated their athletic center, which looks AMAZING. Also, all students have a laptop, so Peddie’s really into that whole technology thing, which is great.</p></li>
<li><p>Community service is really big at Peddie. Over the course of the year, there are a lot of community service opportunities. One of the big things that they do for community service each year is the Community Service day, where they host underpriveledged kids from the surrounding area to come to the gym for a full-blown carnival, with a moonbounce, juggling acts, and inflatable slides. Most of the students come and volunteer at that, either behind the scenes or at the stations. Even I volunteered, even though I wasn’t actually admitted yet.</p></li>
<li><p>I think it’s hard to get a job, because at most boarding schools you’re overwhelmed with work. Plus, each year you’re assigned a Peddie job, which you work a couple days a week anywhere on campus. I wouldn’t suggest trying for one.</p></li>
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<p>Glad you like it! Which grade are you applying for?</p>
<p>Thank you! And I am applying for Junior Year. I think its going to be really difficult trying to get into ANY boarding school. I hope I get admitted though! How about you?</p>
<p>I applied for 9th. It’s definitely a lot harder to get into private high school or college now, but if you broaden your horizons and include non-HADES schools, it really pays off. There are plenty of great schools that aren’t so prestigious out there!</p>
<p>Oh I found this thread and have some questions:
- How is dorm life at peddie?
- Are kids generally nice there?
- Do they have a good arts program?
- How is the campus?</p>
<p>The dorm life at Peddie seems pretty great! I’m a day student, as well as my sibling, so I cannot say for sure, but it seems everyone gets along, different dorms have different attributes, and the weekends at Peddie are fun for everyone, as there are lots of activities on Saturday nights and Sundays. Day students can join in as well.</p>
<p>The kids are really nice! Each grade integrates with upper and lower classmen (which I didn’t see at some schools I toured), and it’s a very friendly place. Peddie seems to attract a lot of genuinely nice kids who want to be there.</p>
<p>The arts are pretty good there. Peddie, to me, is not an “arts” school, but they have great staff. I’ve seen some productions they put on, and they’re really good! The art classes also take trips to nearby NYC, which is cool. This is the website for the arts department: [Peddie</a> School ~ Welcome](<a href=“http://www.peddie.org/podium/default.aspx?t=119114]Peddie”>http://www.peddie.org/podium/default.aspx?t=119114) </p>
<p>The campus is not some sprawling, lush greenery type place, but it’s certainly large enough to accommodate the student body. Because it’s in the Northeast area, the seasons are distinct and it’s beautiful to see the campus change in time. The buildings are a variation between old and new (such as some dorms vs. the science center), which adds a certain textural and visual interest. It’s well-kept, located on/near a lake, and is very pretty all year round.</p>
<p>Hope I helped!</p>
<p>Thank you! 
and since your a day student are day students and boarding students almost the same or is there a big distinction between them? for example do the day students only hang out with the boarding kids or are they all together? lol sorry for all the questions and thanks for the link</p>
<p>The day students are completely integrated with boarders. There is absolutely nothing that day students are excluded from. Besides not sleeping in a dorm room every night, the day students do everything as the boarders do. And yes, they hang out together quite often. During the long weekends boarders need a place to go home to, and often they join their day student friends. If a day student needs to stay the night at Peddie, they are able to stay with their friends for $50, I believe, as long as they have consent from their friend and their friend’s roommate!</p>
<p>thats great I was a little scared that it would be like a seperate community or something but it sounds great and do they require laptops? and if they do can you bring your own or does the school make you use a specific one? wow I’m just filled with questions</p>
<p>Peddie supplies all students with a PC. The freshmen get the seniors’ old ones, and the sophomores get new PCs. Now, while these aren’t Macs, these are certainly great. My sibling, who will be a junior, has a Toshiba with fingerprint recognition and it costs around $1500 at Best Buy. You can certainly bring your own laptop, although that creates just problems. I’m guessing you’d be a boarder, so you can have a desktop in your dorm room and do your work on there, but sometimes, and my sibling is witness to this, people leave their homework on their other computer, and it’s just a mess. I would suggest using the PC supplied by Peddie, as they are great! </p>
<p>It’s okay that you’re full of questions. Where do you think you’ll apply to other than Peddie?</p>
<p>@laughalittle lol I have a pc with finger print recognition too and its great when you have documents you dont want anyone to see. Right now i have a long list but my main ones are Deerfield Hotchkiss Millbrook Thacher and emma willard :)</p>
<p>Glad you like your PC! That’s a nice list you have–not just top HADES! Good. I certainly hope that you like Peddie and will consider applying there!</p>
<p>yea I’m definately gonna apply cause I’ve been looking through the website and really like it but I’m only planning to apply to 6 schools but I have a lot more schools I’m thinking about so its gonna be a hard choice and yea I like deerfield because it looks like a good school not just because its HADES and I’m looking into Exeter and andover too</p>
<p>That’s going to be a hard list to narrow down, with Exeter, Andover, Peddie, Deerfield, Emma Willard, Hotchkiss, Millbrook, and many more schools appealing to you! Would you be looking for freshman year of 2012-2013?</p>
<p>Yeah i know but thank god I have all summer to do it and yea hopefully I’ll be a freshman of 2012-2013!!!</p>
<p>Laughalittle, correct me if I am wrong, but you haven’t started yet at Peddie–yes, you have a sibling there, but really, you are in no position to be spouting about life at a school you haven’t attended yet . . .</p>
<p>I’m not spurting information. I’m talking only about what I know, and what my sibling tells me. I feel I can talk about it, as I have experienced Peddie along with my parents and sibling. I have been on campus and know more about Peddie than you think. Even though I’m not a “student” yet, I’m do believe I’m qualified, as I have done extensive research.</p>
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<p>Hi everyone!
I am going to be a freshman of the 2012-2013 school year, and Peddie is one of my top choices. Not only because Hightstown is close to my hometown, so I would have a lot of family support, but also because I am interested in the Forensic’s field, and that would be a great experience, and better preperation for college. I am also looking into Choate, Deerfield, Exeter, Hotchkiss, and Loomis Chaffee. So I was just wondering, Is there anything that a new applicant should know?
How’s the food?
How often to we get to go off of campus? Ect.
Thanks!</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s anything specific that a new student should know…just that good personality and strong grades will get you far in the admissions process. The food is okay–they always have a salad bar, cereal, sandwich fixings, and pasta at every meal, so you won’t starve. It’s not amazing, but there is also The Grill, which is the “cafe” on campus, and also the bookstore has some snacks. You can also order Domino’s (my sibling does all the time!). You go off campus basically whenever. The only time you need to be on campus, I believe, is for classes and for study hall. But during lunch break you can leave, after classes end you can leave, etc. The Saturday night activities involve leaving campus, and Sunday also has different events off campus.</p>
<p>Hope I helped!</p>