<p>It sucks. Please stop your application process. I was just like everyone else who thought boarding school was some perfect place. It is elitist and snobby. People on financial aid are completely separated from full pays. Drugs are taken all the time, and you have to be sure to keep out of the way. Please reconsider how much you truly want to go to these schools. Once you have started this journey there is no going back. Its awful. I am on anti depressants and I cry almost every day. I feel isolated and stuck in a tiny unrealistic bubble. Listen to you regrets now, for I ignored them and ended up like I am too. Ask me any questions to make your process easier. Please please listen to what i am saying and do not overlook it. Boarding school is only for the extremely well rounded, pretty, SOCIAL, and basically perfect person. People who stay in on weekends, this is the worst place for you. Please listen to me. I am just trying to help people who haven't messed up their lives yet! </p>
<p>Bottom Line: BS is not the perfect place it is made out to be by the viewbooks, admissions videos, tours, interviews, campuses, and applications. There is a different secret world inside that no "prospective" student will ever know about.</p>
<p>Do you think that this kind of activity is most visible at a top school like andover with all the competition?</p>
<p>And you are basically reiterating what many people have said before, bs is not perfect and there are drugs/drama/and lots of stress.</p>
<p>If a person is assuming that bs is perfect by viewbooks and cataloges and crap, then they have another thing coming. </p>
<p>If you are coming from a school where there are many drugs and other stuff, I don’t think it would as big of an adjustment then someone coming from a relatively good middle school. All high schools have drugs and stress btw.</p>
<p>I really appreciate this thread for giving me another perspective on BS.</p>
<p>Yes unsocial people tend to join together, and wait they tend to watch the “cool” people and get jealous of them. Drugs are out of control at boarding school, and they are not the cheap drugs like at ur middle of nowhere school they are really expensive. LIke 1000 for a bag of coke. Keep that in mind, we all know u put BS on a pedastool and stand up for it even thought you have never been there. How can you go against someone’s experience when all you see is the viewbooks? You tell PAAndover how you like BS when you GO. Stop telling him this is not wat bs is like when you have never been and he has. It is ridiculous to state something is false when you have no idea what you are talking about.</p>
<p>You posted a “chance” thread asking your chances of getting into boarding schools. You do not attend boarding school, and you are lying to us. Your intention is just to lessen the applicants so that you have a better chance. From what I hear, schools don’t want a conniving person, like you, in their community.</p>
<p>How do we know that his perspective is the norm at a boarding school? </p>
<p>It could just be an isolated incidence or just be a very small group of people?</p>
<p>Do you go to a boarding school? How can you confirm what he says is true and say what I said is false if you dont?</p>
<p>I am not going against his experience, but I am just assuming that it is not the norm, otherwise you would see some of these people on your tour and stuff.</p>
<p>From your previous post, you are applying this year. Where is your experience coming from? Some points you are making may be true but that is not from your experience.</p>
<p>I just thought I would tell you my chances section was for my brother. Despite my terrible experience he still wants to go. My mom did not want him to get sucked into CC, so he did the chances through my account. And are you seriously looking me up? Also, why would I care about lessening the applicant pool? The applications are in, and I personally do not care if you accept or do not. I am just warning you before you go. About at least half of many schools are not happy. When I am currently asked about my school it is generally in a very pressured situation. Of course when I am on the outside world I am going to tell people I love it and blah blah blah. You are not going to make your school look bad. This is my way to help all those applicants who do not know what they are getting themselves in for. I’m sorry you guys cannot face the facts that boarding school is less than perfect and feel a need to protect schools you do not attend. I truly hope you do not think I am a liar because I would not waste my time doing this if people were just going to complain and tell me I am a liar. Please listen to me. I do not wish this terrible experience on any one else. I am trying to help you all. Please do not go. My brother after my convincing is only really considering one school now as opposed to the many schools he was. Please Please Please do not put yourself in this terrible situation.</p>
<p>From what you know and hear, how would you rate the top schools for general level of happiness and satisfaction among the students. Or do you think most students are unhappy at all schools.</p>
<p>Don’t be so quick to jump on PAA. Boarding school can be quite traumatic. There are numerous people that leave every year from all the schools. It is an ultra competetive place with many very, very talented kids that can make one feel inferior.</p>
<p>Let me say I trust you but I would think you are a minority (not for race) in the boarding school, otherwise we should see more of this type of posts. The students and parents from this board are not getting boarding school information just from viewbooks etc, but also from the experience from their relatives and friends who are attending or attended the boarding schools. I am not discarding your information but would think your experience only representing negative part of boarding life. In the same way, we can find similar things about anywhere.</p>
<p>I wish you best of luck to go through your boarding school life.</p>
<p>Give us some details please. What grade are you in? How’s your relationship with your advisor? What grades are you getting? Are you a boarder? How far is your home? Do you have any friends at school? Do you use drugs or drink alchol? What’s the worst things that happened to you while in school. Please share if you are seriously helping others.</p>