<p>I'm looking for a school for my youngest daughter. She is really into writing. Good student (3.9 GPA), great EC's (athletic, student government, and community service), and has been in a number of school and community plays. Loves to act; "feels home on the stage", but writing is her passion.</p>
<p>Any schools known for their writing program?</p>
<p>Regular Stanford EPGY has a killer writing program, if you cannot find a school.</p>
<p>"Writing Workshop, the most concentrated moment of Loomis Chaffee’s writing program, is part of an across-the-board emphasis on excellent writing at Loomis Chaffee. " Loomis</a> Chaffee ~ Writing at Loomis</p>
<p>My son loves to write, too. He once considered a career in journalism (but now has other ideas). Whatever he does, writing will be essential in his life and I am glad he will take this Writing Workshop when he is a sophomore.</p>
<p>St. Andrew's-Delaware has some strong creative writing courses, but i don't know if they're actually known for writing.
I great theater program too, by the way.</p>
<p>milton academy...duhhh</p>
<p>Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA</p>
<p>Any school that has about 12 kids in a class and where teaching loads are less than 50 is going to offer your child much more opportunity to develop her writing than almost any public school situation. Beyond that, my belief is that the particular teachers your child ends up with and that child's willingness to learn as much from those teachers as she can matter more than whether the school has a (usually sophomore) specific writing module. Another factor that comes into play is the range of academic levels of the students in the class. If your strong writer ends up in a class with many students needing remedial help, guess who gets the attention? How useful will peer review be? Therefore, if she ends up at a school that draws from a broader academic spectrum, I would look for one with honors sections in English, the last place many schools have honors sections.</p>
<p>I think most top prep schools place a great deal of emphasis on writing. In fact, I seem to recall comments on one of the other threads (Ivy League) about how the writing skills of BS kids are way ahead of most of their peers even at some of the Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>At Choate I know there is a great deal of emphasis on writing in both English and History courses. This Spring, most 9th grade English classes require one or two papers a week.</p>
<p>the problem with loomis chaffee's program is tht it looks like most of it is focused on having grammar, and vocabulary- as opposed to style and voice. on the arts/alternative school thread there were a few writing intensive schools mentioned</p>
<p>Milton and Loomis seem to be the best of that tier.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about Groton's writing program? On their website, it appears they offer Writing Intensive Courses.</p>
<p>Milton has a great writing program, but a wonderful theatre program as well--a great, nationally ranked speech team.</p>