Hi! I am applying to these three schools next year, probably as a day student, and I was wondering if you could give some opinions on these three schools. Also, are day students looked at as outcasts at choate and Loomis? thanks!
Day students are not looked upon as outcasts at any school talked about frequently here. If they were, why would they attend? All three of the school’s you list are fine schools. What, specifically, do you want to know?
You have asked versions of this question a half a dozen times in the last month, and while I can appreciate a disinformation campaign designed to prevent identifying you from the info posted, a month ago you were a kid who had already taken the SSAT and applied to Choate and LC. Now you will be applying next year? So you are not in 8th grade right now and you don’t know what you’ll get on the SSAT for next year. Or you are in 8th grade but will be applying for 10th? And you will be day student at Hopkins, Choate, or LC? Even though you posted that you went to a day school in SE CT which is over an hour from any of those schools? Ok.
The google machine tells me that Choate is halfway between LC and Hopkins, so unless you are a Choate or Cheshire Academy fac brat or something, the day student thing is not going to work well at those three school. You will be too far from at least one of them, and possibly all three if you live in SE CT.
If you are an 8th grader with your posted stats and you are waiting on admissions, well, then this is all mute at this point. And moot. Till you get in or don’t.
If you are not an 8th grader, or applying for 10th in 2017/2018, then this is all hypothetical. However, IF you are a student who will be applying next year for 2018 admission AND you live in CT AND have to be a day student, then unroll a paper map of Connecticut on your dining room table or someplace similar to that, get a compass and figure what is equal to a 20 minute drive, put the compass on your house and draw circle, and then look for schools in that circle. If you find any, then you can decide if you want to apply to them. If you don’t find any, consider making a bigger circle at a 25 or 30 minute drive. CT is chock full of schools. If you still can’t find a school in your circle, consider boarding.
After all that, and once you get some test scores and grades and other stats, figure out what you want to share and ask away. Or if you want to PM some of these fine folks, that would probably be okay, too.
He probably meant he was applying for next academic year and not next year.
Doesn’t Loomis have something like 40% day students? You would not be alone as a day student there.
Dang @GnarWhail :-t ^:)^ 
I can only speak to Hopkins. My son applied last year because we were thinking of relocating to New Haven. We didn’t, so he’s now at Exeter. We were all enormously impressed with Hopkins. It’s academically rigorous, but warm.
from what I have seen (my son is at one of those schools), there is almost no difference between the day and boarding students’ lives other than the boarding students sleep there.