<p>Clean slate definetly a plus. And it’s because it was a specialized school.</p>
<p>This might sound cowardly, but escaping my current reputation, and shedding the responsibilities that come with it…will definitely be a plus!</p>
<p>@GoldenRatio, same here! I feel like no one knows the real me. But at boarding school each student is special in their own way</p>
<p>^ I would LOVE to change my reputation. Or lack thereof. I’m the black girl who hangs out with the loud, weird anime-obssed kind-of losers (even though I don’t care for anime) and some other people. I’m quiet except with my friends, work semi-hard, and don’t really suck up to the teachers. So I’m a bit invisible. You know there are three types of people. The people who make everyone laugh when the teachers calls them out on something, the people who make a moderate amount of people laugh, and the people who don’t really make anyone laugh. I’m inbetween the lower two, but it’s easy to say that most people in my normal classes probably don’t really know I exist. Other than passing back papers and glancing when the teacher calls on me.</p>
<p>Eh…I’m supposed to be the “smart” girl who by “bad luck” got put into an “okay” class. I have no idea how this reputation was formed; but it means that everyone asks me for answers and most of the time, I don’t have them! >_<</p>
<p>@bsroxmysox: I’m the girl who whispers out the answers; nobody hears them, thus, they were never said! :D</p>
<p>Not to sound pretentious, but I really hate my reputation of being the ‘perfect’ person. I’m expected to know all the answers, win all the awards, and it’s bad enough having Asian parents on your back but the weight of the student population too? It’s overwhelming. I really want to go to a school where I don’t have to be that person while still being able to be myself, as cheesy as that sounds. When I applied to A/E I only told a select few people, but in a matter of days the entire school knew and now everyone’s expecting me to get in, and if I don’t, well, I’m not sure how to tell them. I know I should stop caring about what other people think, but hey, I’d like to think I’m a caring person 
In fact, if people from my school knew I was posting on this site it could pretty much ruin me 
/endrant</p>
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<p>@bsroxmysox (and any others who think this represents a typical day at a selective BS): You are in for a rude awakening. Time, as you describe it, is something you definitely will not have, or not on any regular basis. Most likely, you will be IN CLASS at 8AM. You may or may not have time to eat three meals a day (lunch for many seems to be catch-as-catch-can; if your schedule doesn’t permit time in the dining hall on certain days, you can arrange for food service to have a bag lunch ready that you can grab on your way to your next class). You will use most of your free blocks for studying; don’t underestimate the academic demands of these schools. If you participate in a competitive sport, you may be doing that sport up to three hours a day every afternoon except on the days you are actually competing in that sport. Same goes for serious musicians. After dinner (if you have time to shower after practice and get there before the dining hall closes – it happens), you will have three hours of mandated study each evening until lights out. Although the time between lights out and your first class in the morning should provide you with eight hours of sleep, not many seem to actually awake refreshed. Good luck with that. Like shampoo, the BS routine is lather, rinse, repeat. By the time you come home for your first break, you will most likely be craving sleep.</p>
<p>Freshman year, you will find your days pretty much scheduled from the time you wake up until lights out. You will “socialize” mostly on weekends but, contrary to the glossy photos on the brochure, you will not have a lot of unstructured free time just to hang out under the trees with friends. You will spend the first year adjusting to a new level of rigor (for most) and learning to balance all the demands on your time. As for clubs, everyone joins multiple clubs with enthusiasm that first week, but many clubs do not endure due to lack of ongoing participation. You may be able to seriously participate in a single club, but you will not have a lot of time for multiple club meetings/participation which is why many fold. </p>
<p>I’m not telling you this to scare you, just to make sure you don’t have an idealized view of BS. It’s an AMAZING experience, but it will demand more of you than you’ve ever dreamed, and you should face it with excitement and determination–and realism. I believe if you search, you will be able to find a thread on a “typical” day at BS where real students weigh in with their actual schedules which do not differ much from what I’ve described even at some of the less competitive schools.</p>
<p>Good luck to you all, but make sure you have a realistic idea of what a typical day looks like at the schools you are applying to and that you are excited and not fearful about meeting that challenge</p>
<p>Thanks, ChoatieMom! Your description of private school is exactly what I am expecting, and it is exactly why I am so ecstatic!</p>
<p>@CellyZ I understand how you feel! I am under so much pressure to be a “perfect” role model; I need to get the highest grades possible and be the smartest, wear the most creative and fashionable clothes, spend 7+ hours a day doing sports, clubs, and the play, all while still putting up with being friends with the stuck up “popular” group (who are all a pain in the derriere), and running the whole freshman class office (organizing dances, food drives, pep rallies, and a bunch of other events). So don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely honored that people look at me to set an example, its still very stressful, and I’m terrified that I’ll disappoint everyone.</p>
<p>Oh are we doing reputations now? I want in!!</p>
<p>I was the gay odd-ie who came out after a bunch of people spread some rumors that I ______ with my best friend who was straight. Then somehow it got around that I sold crack and that I’m a “predatory gay” and straight girls should definietly not hang around me because I’m dangerous and would get them hooked on crack. </p>
<p>Not joking.
Yes I’m gay
No drugs
I have a girlfriend of a year
I have straight friends that are girls
I have not hit on straight girls before
I’m irrefutably in love with a girl who reciprocates said love.</p>
<p>That is so mean of them! I am honestly sick of homophobes who make up rumors to feel better about themselves! @PxAlaska you are amazing for getting through that! :)</p>
<p>Okay, this is going to be a long-donkey post.</p>
<p>@GoldenRatio Well, I’m the girl who feels like she knows the answer but doesn’t raise her hand because she’s afraid to be wrong. Insecurities over here.</p>
<p>@CellyZ and AmbiD77 Mostly because I’m on the outside looking on, ther rep you have sounds pretty good. It’s weird but not totally surprising that you hate the ‘popular’ crowd. But do you believe any of you fit the mold that I said about popular girls? Honestly.</p>
<p>@ChoatieMom Well that’s incredibly different from what I thought it was. But still a much better deal than I have now and for the next three years.</p>
<p>@PxAlaska That’s cool that you’re gay! I totally love gay people (Cam and Mitchell from Modern Family, various girlxgirl ships that don’t exist, like StormxJean or Loving Annabelle), I mean not in a superficial way, but they’re pretty awesome. Although I have this strange mental aversion to butch girls -_-’. Anyway, I think high schoolers are just majorly superificial and generally idiots when it comes to stuff like that. I actually know of two or three lesbian couples at my school, but they’re in older grades so I’m not sure how people treat them. I know they have friends, one of the girls was even nominated for a sort of small-town miss (town name here) for high schoolers, which is pretty cool. I’m not sure where the term ‘predatory gay’ could possibly come from, except girls jealous of your confidence of coming out who, for some reason, believe the atypical ‘predatory gay’ gym teacher exists. That’s actually funny because my gym teacher last year in 8th grade was gay and had a girlfriend/wife, I wasn’t able to get all the details haha.</p>
<p>hahah I appreciate I think a lot of what you said. It’s natural to picture lesbians as butch, but I am not butch. I’d post a picture of myself if it wasn’t for privacy concerns. If you are curious, I have pictures of my girlfriend and I that I can PM you. Neither of us are butch nor the “male” in the relationship. If I wanted to date a boy, I’d date a boy.</p>
<p>@bsroxmysox
It depends really. I suppose either way I say it, it wont be as accurate as someone else weighing in. For clothing I have my personal style, which may sometimes follow the trends but I don’t really spend too much time thinking about it. The reason that I am friends with the people I’m friends with is because I’ve known them since elementary school, so when we came to this school we stuck together. I definitely don’t date every other day, or week, or month even. In fact, there was big school gossip when a guy asked me out and my response was ‘I’m too busy studying for finals’. I’d like to think I’m unique as in I make friends through a lot of social groups. I personally don’t think I fit that mold, in the fact that I actually care about my grades and like learning. Then again, at my school ‘popularity’ isn’t really prioritized the same as others. I believe the reason I have the reputation I have is because I don’t often share personal things (as they tend to become gossip pieces), so I may come off as distant or, I fear, too-good-for-you attitude. </p>
<p>I’m just a person, I’m nothing special, and I’m just trying my best to be nice to everyone and get my stuff done! So to answer your questions as simply as possible, I hope not.</p>
<p>@bsroxmysox I would like to think that I don’t really fit your mold for a typical popular girl, and I think anyone who knows me would agree. For clothing, I don’t follow trends, but i may sometimes unintentionally, because I run a fashion/street style blog and so my clothes are more creative than generically trendy. Also, another reason I’m friends with the popular group is because at my school that is synonymous with the smart group, but I’m not happy I’m friends with them. I’m definitely not mean or exclusive, I’m friends with everyone and I wouldn’t really say I’m “pretty,” but rather that I have a unique fashion sense. And with the whole dating thing, I’ve never had a boyfriend ever, and that’s mostly because I’m not interested in dating popular guys, and instead I enjoy focusing on my studies, which causes a lot of rumors about me being “stuck up”.
Even though neither I nor CellyZ fit in your popular girl mold, I definitely think that it’s valid and most people I know would in fact fit in it.</p>
<p>@PxAlaska Oh no, I definitely wasn’t implying you were butch. I actually assumed you were femme.</p>
<p>@CellyZ Thanks for the clarification, good you defended yourself :D</p>
<p>@AmbiD77 You have to give me the link to your blog!!</p>
<p>@PxAlaska Oh no, I definitely wasn’t implying you were butch. I actually assumed you were femme.</p>
<p>@CellyZ Thanks for the clarification, good you defended yourself :D</p>
<p>@AmbiD77 You have to give me the link to your blog!!</p>
<p>I somehow posted that twice…I apologize.</p>
<p>Whew. I like athletic clothes as much as the next girl, but butch is a very specific style that I stray away from. One of the things I was most nervous about was my roommate not wanting to be my roommate.</p>
<p>Yeah I understand your fear. I think you should just come out and be like, “Hey, I like girls. But I’m not creepy and won’t fall in love with you or watch you change, or any other untrue stereotypes that just popped in your mind.” You could say that, but it ultimately is based on who the person is, and how willing she’ll be to accept you.</p>