<p>Hello everyone! I'm a freshman boarder at Milton this year and I'd like to clarify a few things.</p>
<p>There are 150 kids in my grade, 100 boarders, 50 day students. That makes our school 2/3 boarders and 1/3 day students.</p>
<p>There are 8 dorms, 4 boys, 4 girls. Two of these dorms are off campus (about an 8 minute walk to the center of campus). The experience of living off campus is highly beneficial to these students. They are required to be extremely organized for a trip back to the dorm on the way to practice is not an option.</p>
<p>Also, this year, only 3 DCs (discipline committees -- kids getting in big trouble) have occurred. Think about it, only 3 kids have done something recognized as being against school rules. 2 of these DCs were for very minor violations.</p>
<p>Every school has a spot where kids dump their backpacks, ours happens to be in the student center. This is not out of the ordinary. We have a very clean (and eco-friendly) campus. These posts about broken furniture are preposterous.</p>
<p>And what in the world was that post about people sleeping in the gym? Haha, don't get me wrong, but that's just strange.</p>
<p>On Milton's website, it states that the upper school is 50% boarding Milton</a> Academy. Perhaps they needed to fill boarding spots with your class.</p>
<p>I went on it and I think Andover was 20%, Exeter 21%, Deerfield 18% so you were pretty dead on westcoast xD Milton's was 30%, and since the main reason I wasn't applying there was because I thought it had a low acceptance rate, I'll probably apply to Andover, Exeter, and Milton. Not sure yet, but pretty. Thanks so much everyone who helped!</p>
<p>"Also, this year, only 3 DCs (discipline committees -- kids getting in big trouble) have occurred. Think about it, only 3 kids have done something recognized as being against school rules. 2 of these DCs were for very minor violations."</p>
<p>that doesn't mean that there haven't been more infractions that weren't caught. i don't think there's necessarily any reason to think there are more of these infractions at milton than at other schools, but there was that disturbing book 'restless virgins' that came out a few years ago.</p>
<p>Restless Virgins was a book that followed the lives of 4 kids, kids who happened to violate school policy. The only reason Milton's scandals are exploited is because we are a prestigious school 8 miles from Boston. More than likely, this type of thing occurs at every school, it's just not made into a big deal.</p>
<p>And so what? If they weren't caught then they got off lucky, but this happens at every school!</p>
<p>Yes Milton's acceptance rate is 30%.
But Kent's is 44%.
And NMH's is 46%.</p>
<p>Well, I'd rather go to a school with a lower acceptance rate.. But not too low.</p>
<p>Does that make sense? >.< And since we know people that have gone/go to Milton, Exeter, and Andover, my parents feel safer sending me there, since neither them or myself have heard of Kent and NMH.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Does anyone know why it won't let me edit the above post?</p>
<p>Anyways.</p>
<p>I'm still going to look into Kent and NMH and pick one of those two as a safety, if I somehow manage to get my parents to let me apply to one more school. (My city has good academy programs, so they consider that a safety. Since I'm not applying to boarding school to go there, but to... go there? God, I really do NOT make sense.) And thanks sooo much everyone that helped! =]</p>