<p>Physical exertion AND skill.</p>
<p>I would say that ballet dancers are very athletic.</p>
<p>Singing? Asbestos has been outlawed, so I would have no flame protection if I commented on that!</p>
<p>I have a question...does anyone know of a boarding school that has a good education, a strong soccer program and accepts average students? My son is bright, but has not been applying himself 100% We are looking for a school that is friendly and challenging but not overwhelming.</p>
<p>^Searching mom, you should start your own thread about your son for suggestions about schools because more people will see it. To do that click the 'new thread' button.</p>
<p>This is not a good thread. Your school is tier 1 and it is the best school for you. If you go to tier1, do you think your life will be tier 1? That is nonsense. Especially, we are talking about high school(not college). Even for college, it is a silly idea to differentiate tier 1 college from tier 2 or tier 3 college. If you go to Ivy league, do you believe you can have a successful career? There are so many high school teachers and private SAT and SSAt prep institute teachers who graduated from Ivy. I don't think they went to Ivy to become that kind of teachers. On the other hand, many successful features are from non-Ivy. I strongly suggest that we should not talk about tiers and rankings of BS. That is simply ridiculous! Whichever school you feel comfortable and provides a right program is the best for you. Does Exeter or Andover guarantee Ivy and successful career? Come on! Please lead us to the right direction if you are right person.</p>
<p>"If you go to Ivy league, do you believe you can have a successful career?" Yes</p>
<p>"I don't think they went to Ivy to become that kind of teachers." What are you trying to say about teachers..they could very well have wanted to be teachers. Teaching is a valued profession. </p>
<p>"On the other hand, many successful features are from non-Ivy." and many are from IVYs. What are you trying to say.</p>
<p>I don't think anyone here thinks they are guaranteed anything. Or think it's IVY or death..</p>
<p>Agreed... </p>
<p>This Ivy or death attitude doesn't work...</p>
<p>IVY OR DEATH!
-choke-</p>
<p>The Ivies are an athletic conference, people. Just keep that in mind.. >_></p>
<p>I feel really bad for whoever applies to those 8 colleges just because they're part of an athletic group, haha. An extremely prestigious one, but an athletic group nonetheless :S</p>
<p>To call a spade a spade, they have become a lot more than an athletic group...</p>
<p>I will be the first to say, do not get me wrong, that one should not go to a college based in its reputation and prestige... The ivies (+MIT/Stanford) have earned something that no other conference have... I think 5/8 of them have been here since before America became independent and they have set the course of higher education...</p>
<p>Either way they, as DiveAlive said, are an athletic conference...</p>
<p>What do you mean, "an athletic group"? I guess they are their own conference, but to try to go just for athletics...well, that's not saying so much about your athletic ability, because they are not the strongest athletic conference, for certain!</p>
<p>Nono, I meant.. athletic conference. (Substituting the word group for conference.. blah)</p>
<p>I bet there are some parents who'll only pay for the "best of the best", kind of like the Andover-or-Exeter game.
Some parents (mostly Chinese/Korean, LOL) around here will like, disown their children if they don't get into HYP. It's really, really sad, actually :/</p>
<p>& Yeah, haha, they're not the strongest athletic conference.. xDD</p>
<p>Actually -- the Ivy League is quite strong in certain sports. M/W Lacrosse, M/W Crew, M/W Squash, M/W Tennis, M/W Hockey, Wrestling, Field Hockey -- Ivy Teams are invariably nationally ranked in these sports, and have a number of recent national championships in a few...</p>
<p>Cornell came out of the IVY to get a NCAA basketball tournament bid. Right now there holding their own against a 3 seed which is amazing. There going to lose, but their obviously not bad</p>
<p>Sometimes they make it to NCAA's. Dartmouth won the Ivy's for soccer, made it to the sweet 16 and were spanked by Wake Forest.</p>
<p>supporting: "The tier question comes up so often that I can't help wondering - Once a person finds a top 15 prep to get them into a top 10 university is there then a list of top five professions to be practiced at the top five firms? Do you and your spouse (culled from a list of top 15 available mates) then buy a house in a top 15 zip code and, while summering at one of the top 15 vacation spots, procreate so you can continue the process with the next generation?"</p>
<p>The education at Prep schools in tier one or tier two or tier three is outstanding. Sadly, the tier one attracts a greater portion of "trophy" families, who make decisions, not based on what is best for the kid, but on how it looks. Trophy houses, trophy wives, trophy kids all marching to a very strange drummer. Not all, but a fair number. Makes for a strange culture. For some folks, that the reason they avoid tier one.</p>
<p>I agree with you, but that was taking it a bit too far... I think those who go to tier one schools factor prestige in... It does not mean they do all the things you say.</p>
<p>Pincipalviola, I agree with you; not all families at tier one schools are trophy hunters..... but a higher proportion are as compared with what you will find at tier two and three. Some families choose to go to Tier 2 and 3, not because they couldn't get into tier one, but because they did not want to play that game.</p>
<p>Love the screen name ... and Emily Dickenson's frogs in bogs. My point exactly.</p>