<p>You're right that the Emma Willard campus is "nice" - in fact, it's absolutely beautiful - much, much more so in person even than in pics. Plus, the way the buildings are arranged around the campus give the school a very warm, protected feeling - gorgeous.</p>
<p>I'm considering Emma Willards, but there have been many negative posts about it. (And Miss Porters). Does any one want to contribute their 2 cents?</p>
<p>I will pm you</p>
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<p>johnathon - if you're reading, look into cranbrook some more! it's perfect for you.. w/ the proximity and everything. wow.. i'm impressed.
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<p>I was actually considering applying when I decided I wasn't going to apply to New England boarding schools, but I ended up just applying to the day school because the financial aid is very limited, despite it's $200M endowment. At the day school I'm going to next year, the average class size is the same as at Cranbrook, the average award for financial aid is about the same as Cranbrook, but Cranbrook's tuition is $29,000 for boarding students and $20,000 for day students, while the school I'm going to is $17,000.</p>
<p>Maybe if I don't like the high school I'm going to next year I'll apply, but if I apply there I'll probably apply to New England boarding schools, too.</p>
<p>liza42 -- I don't remember reading negative posts about Emma Willard or Miss Porters.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm sorry- I should have been more specific. There have been serveal negative posting on boards other than CC. Though, I do recall one or two on the CC board... But i think that post was deleted. I'm really not sure where it was.</p>
<p>That post was deleted because it did not seem to be appropriate and truthful (I am guessing).</p>
<p>I'm glad of it! Emma Willard and Miss Porters sound really excellent.</p>
<p>Blair Blair Blair</p>
<p>I thought Canterbury in CT was beautiful, too. There are lots of gorgeous prep school campuses. </p>
<p>St. STephen's in Austin is pretty and somewhat unique (don't go there, though- it's NOT good)</p>
<p>What do you know about St. Stephens? My son is a soccer player and received a telephone call and an e-mail from them. (We hadn't applied or contacted them). He was excited and wanted to apply, but I didn't want to send him halfway across the country for bs when we already live in New England and have what I consider the best bs in the country right here at our disposal.</p>
<p>Emma and MPS are both very nice schools, imo. Use CC for info but not gospel. You'll ultimately have to decide what's good for you and not the CCer's</p>
<p>keylyme- I know a LOT about St. Stephen's. It has a low percentage of boarders and is a terrible boarding environment. It fills the boarding slots with soccer and tennis academy kids, internationals and Austin kids who can't get admitted as day students. There is a lack of supervision and pretty poor leadership at the top. Academics are good but can be uneven. Don't even consider it for boarding unless it is SOLELY for soccer. My son attended for 1 2/3 years as a boarder before getting kicked out for an "incident".</p>
<p>Now THAT'S what I'm talking about. You take a name like MomofWildChild and that's what I'm waiting to hear you talk about!</p>
<p>Go search for my post on him going AWOL from his college in March.......it's in the Parents Forum.</p>
<p>I'll do that! But I'm thinking that you might be blairt's mom. Earlier today blairt wrote that her brother once left school and drove off in a golf cart...IN SECOND GRADE!!!!</p>
<p>"Hello, Mrs. Blairt, I hate to make this call, but your son, Blairdude, hasn't come back from snack time in the Gymnatorium."</p>
<p>"Oh, that's okay Mr. Principal. We just got a call from Mort's Deli. Seems he double-parked the school's security golfcart in front while trying to buy a Reuben sandwich on rye. Seems he wasn't too excited about stale potato chips and lukewarm milk."</p>
<p>@ MomofWildChild: Okay, that's too recent for me to be making jokes about. Sorry. FWIW...George Wendt, the guy who played "Norm" on Cheers, went to Notre Dame and in the middle of exams during his freshman year he went on a road trip to Colorado. He kept driving and wound up in California. Became an actor. And like 30 years later he got a recurring role playing an overweight drunk on a decent sitcom. Personally, I vividly recall the bone-chilling cold morning during the first semester when I had mono and was walking back to my very remote dorm from an 8 o'clock Calculus class wondering to myself, "What am I doing here? What am I doing in Indi-eff-ing-ana?" And at that moment I resolved to transfer to UCLA or USC. But I didn't. I just plugged away.</p>
<p>So, let me make this sincere observation: Your son is clearly a man of action!</p>
<p>You have to joke about it or else you go crazy! He was kicked out of 4 year old pre-school, his middle school (end of 8th grade) and St. Stephen's. He had a successful and stellar high school career eventually. He doesn't have particularly good luck with things involving motor vehicles and policemen, either. He has also been known to drunk dial ME!</p>
<p>Wow, MomofWildChild, you are so talking about my brother. He was also kicked out of preschool (had a tendency to strip off all of his clothes and run for the street when Story Time wasn't exciting enough). The childcare facilities were on my mother's campus, right where she worked, and watched in horror as he skipped in front of the bay windows in her office (butt naked) twice before he was expelled. He has since continued to run away from school, no matter what grade he's in (hence, the golf cart incident.. and countless others.. I must say, he is getting better at slipping away more inconspicuously). Don't know what he'll turn out like.. just waitin' to find out.</p>
<p>He's one of those kids that's insanely, inherently brilliant kids whose just.. eccentric, we'll say.. that's a nice way to put it. Would be a brilliant engineer (fixed lawn mower w/ parts from toaster at age 5) if he could just listen to an instructor's directions.</p>
<p>So far WildChild has kept his clothes on. Oh wait, there WAS the $50 citation this year at college for peeing in the bushes outside the Quad! "public urination"</p>
<p>That's a Texan for you...........smile</p>