<p>That list has out of date data.</p>
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<p>Which is why I’m so happy I didn’t get accepted to more than one boarding school. 
My parents would be all over my case if I had the options.</p>
<p>^And that’s why I’m glad I got into my top choice school. It was the only one my parents and I both really liked. There would have been major issues if I’d only got into a few further down my list.</p>
<p>I admire that you ranked the schools you were applying to. I cowered, for fear that I would be rejected at my top choice. So, when decision day came, I was in a state of satisfaction. After all, I wasn’t rejected by my top choice. I didn’t have one.</p>
<p>I don’t trust any review that spells Thacher ‘Thatcher’!</p>
<p>@ThacherParent. I agree. Andover admitted 13% of applicants and Groton admitted 12%, not 14% and 19%, respectively.</p>
<p>It also says that some schools “required” a certain SSAT percentile, which they don’t. It’s probably just the average.</p>
<p>This was posted in 2008. The statistics were more than likely relevant to that time frame.</p>
<p>Does anyone have very recent statistics? I would think not…</p>
<p>America’s Best Boarding Schools 2012 - PDF File</p>
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<p>So the only measure used to determine “best” is Ivy admit rate? Ridiculous.</p>
<p>As always, the best school is the one that’s best for your child. These rankings get so tiresome.</p>
<p>We Americans love our “Best Of” lists. After all, if someone doesn’t tell us who’s best, we might have to figure it out by ourselves.</p>
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<p>The ranking based on Ivy admit is ridiculous, especially, since I am aware of kids at my S’s school who are Ivy admits based on their family’s donation of a new building to the college.</p>
<p>Plus, if Nobles & Hun are classified as boarding schools with 10% boarders, then Groton & Hotchkiss should be called day schools…</p>
<p>made me think, I agree ^</p>
<p>This ranking system so beyond stupid it bogles the imagination. Anyone who pays it any attention needs to have a serious talk with her or himself about what matters–</p>
<p>aside from the fact that it treats boarding schools are merely a way station on the educational train, the use of 8 schools which in the 1950s decided that they wanted to play football against each other as the measure of excellence is ridiculous. Let’s, arguendo, say that placement is the only measure of excellence is the ranking of how many get into Dartmouth matter more than say, Williams or Amherst? Or Chicago or CalTech? </p>
<p>Find the school that feels that it fits who your child is and can become-- THAT is the TOP boarding school in the U.S. for YOUR child–full stop.</p>
<p>…but which one is the ‘Cadillac’ of boarding schools?? That’s the one I want.</p>
<p>Many people are of the philosophy that education is like a building, you design and build it carefully from bottom up. An excellent foundation k thru 8, then on to a great high school (anything that fits your personality in the top 20 or 30, or even un-ranked), then on to a top-of-the-line Liberal Arts program at a “little Ivy” like Williams, Amherst or Swarthmore College. And only then on to a major Ivy for the graduate degree. Pace yourself, build a foundation, lay the blocks one layer at a time… and the patient tortoise shall beat the over-eager hare every time.</p>
<p>That list is way off. The IVY Rate and Endowment for the school i’m going to next year is way off. I got the 2012 numbers in the admissions viewbook i got. Also, rankkings shouldn’t just be ranked on ivy rate. How succesful alumni became should be another large factor. I think it should be top colleges matriculated to also. So thats list numbers are way off and what schools are ranked on is crazy!</p>