<p>Congrats to everyone ! Whether you were accepted or not you should be proud of the effort you made. </p>
<p>So who intends to come to Hotchkiss next year ?</p>
<p>I am definatley coming to Hotchkiss next year!!</p>
<p>Our son is definitely going to Hotchkiss.</p>
<p>i am going</p>
<p>My son is going to Hotchkiss!!!</p>
<p>I’m the parent of a boy whom Hotchkiss accepted for enrollment into the Class of '12. We signed our contract with the school and sent it to Lakeville last week. Currently, my son plans to attend Hotchkiss next fall, althought there is always the possibility that he may stay home with us and remain in the private day school which he currently attends and enjoys. His mother and I are very excited about Hotchkiss, and our boy appears inclined to join the Lower Mids at Hotchkiss soon. Because I spent four years of my life at a boarding school and those years were probably the best years of my life, I’m strongly encouraging my son to attend Hotchkiss this fall. In the end, whether my son stays home or attends Hotchkiss will be his decision. Whatever he decides, however, his mother and I will support him 100%, of course.</p>
<p>Mememe. I’m going!!! :)</p>
<p>Hotchkiss is a stuck up school with stuck up children Period</p>
<p>Archetype: is it more so than Deerfield?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know much about Deerfield. I haven’t taken interest in that school although I applied just for kicks</p>
<p>Archetype, I am not disputing your comment in connection with Hotchkiss, but upon what do you base it? I have never heard that about Hotchkiss. About Deerfield, yes, but never about Hotchkiss.</p>
<p>There have been numerous anti Hotchkiss posts in the last few days. No, it does not have the financial diversity as some of the other HEADS-GCM schools (namely Exeter and Andover) but it is still a very good school.</p>
<p>It is not stuck up, nor is it a school with stuck up children.</p>
<p>that’s completely ridiculous and archetype just wants to stir things up!</p>
<p>“It does not have the financial diversity as some of the others…but it is still a very good school.”</p>
<p>Now this will be interpreted as heretical, but Socrates teaches us to question all dogma: WHAT IS IT ABOUT FINANCIAL DIVERSITY THAT MAKES A SCHOOL BETTER? WHY DO WE ACCEPT THIS NOTION AS RECEIVED TRUTH FROM ABOVE?</p>
<p>And kentschoolie, are you going to Kent? My son is. Twenty two miles south of Hotchkiss.</p>
<p>I am not saying that financial diversity makes a school better or worse. It is a statement of fact, no other high school in the world throws out the money as do Andover and Exeter.</p>
<p>it’s a close community that has a gorgeous campus, top rate academics and lots of school spirit and pride.</p>
<p>i’m familiar with the litchfield/berkshire county area and have been to school as a visitor. i was reading that they have 6.5 million for fa, which really helps diversity. i just think that fact doesn’t get as much exposure as other schools.</p>
<p>PV, are you retracting your post? You implied in your post that schools that “have financial diversity are better.” I just want to know why that is the case. Is it the financial diversity itself that makes the school better, or is it some third factor that causes both financial diversity at the school and also causes the school to be better? Is there a causal relationship between the diversity and the “better?”</p>
<p>They are better. In my post to which you responded I did not indicate any preference, however. Hotchkiss has plenty of financial diversity, I am talking about schools which offer little to no financial aid.</p>