<p>Any one know something about this school? Thx.</p>
<p>A great campus, all male......I loved the people there. Very positive admissions experience but I ultimately chose another school. Golf course on campus. Really nice dining facilities. Good commraderie.</p>
<p>Traditional southern school,gorgeous campus with great facilities, huge endowment, top notch athetics, middle of nowhere, predominately southern boys, some Ivy's and NESCAC but most grads stay south (UVA, UNC, Sewanee, Richmond etc.). </p>
<p>Probably the top all boys school in the country.</p>
<p>You forgot to say "BOARDING." Top all boys BOARDING school in the country.</p>
<p>Just my thoughts ... mostly Southern boys from old Southern money. As others have mentioned, beautiful campus, but very isolated. No girls for many miles. Has reputation for giving lower grades, which can hurt in college admissions (particularly outside the colleges/universities familiar with the school). I would say a notch above Baylor or McCallie in terms of Southern boarding schools' reputations, but only just. Comparable reputation in my mind to Episcopal.</p>
<p>I called the school. they said they don't have sister school but they do offer some activiities to associate with girl.</p>
<p>Sorry D'yer -- the top boy's school in the country is Roxbury Latin.</p>
<p>Yes, but it isn't a boarding school.</p>
<p>Two words: reading comprehension.</p>
<p>What about Avon Old Farms?</p>
<p>We applied AOF last year and did not accepted. They told me there are already 100 boys applies for 10 grade this year. so the chance is ...
Thx.</p>
<p>We will be visiting Avon in early November. Baseballmom is visiting there too I think.<br>
I'm not sure what you mean yan19454 by 100 boys already applies for 10th grade this year...the application deadline is February 1st. Do you mean 100 have inquired about grade 10? </p>
<p>In any case, we'll report more after the visit. I wish Edconsultant22 was around, she had some good insight into Avon. You could do a search for it and find some info here.</p>
<p>Linda,</p>
<p>I feel the same way like you did, too. Here is what AOF email rely. I might misunderstand the email.</p>
<p>In terms of openings for grade 10, I am
expecting to have approximately 15 to 20 spots available for next year.
This year, we have approximately 100 boys apply for grade 10 so this may
give you some perspective on how challenging the process is. While I do
not want to discourage you from applying, I would recommend that you
also consider a number of other schools to keep all of your options
available.</p>
<p>It means that they are expecting that many based on previous year's numbers and the increase in applications which staticians foresee.</p>
<p>I'm surprised that Avon only has that many spots for 10th grade. Most of the schools we are looking at (Including Salisbury - another all boys school) have a much smaller 9th grade class and increase 10th grade by about 1/3. Salisbury has about 45 9th graders and 75 10th graders, then 85 in 11th and 12th. Avon being a somewhat larger school (about 100 more boys total) I would have expected about 50 openings for 10th grade using the same proportions as Salisbury. </p>
<p>Thank you for posting that Yan because it certainly does remind us of another question for us to ask when visiting - how many 10th graders come new to the school? Not so much for info in terms of admissions, but in terms of how they feel to be a *part *of the school. It is it indeed only 15-20 at Avon, - which is about 15-20% of the class, I would think it is harder than at Salisbury where it is 40% new students in 10th grade. That might make our job of narrowing down where we apply easier.</p>
<p>While I inquire about more school info, I will ask them whether they have open for 10 grade and will accept PA student first. It need time to look more info for the school. I asked Mercerbury ,St. Andrew(It need geo, race diversity), Wood Berry Forest, AOF. All only has 20-25 opening. I did not ask how many people they expect to ask since I think a lot of factors will affect that. Maybe I should ask first.</p>
<p>Woodberry doesn't have a sister school, but it has a historic relationship with Chatham Hall (the two schools almost merged in the 1970s) and arranges weekend activities with a variety of Virginia girls' and coed schools, including Madeira, Chatham, Foxcroft, etc. There are mixers, formals, service trips, study abroad opportunities, and religious fellowships with these schools. There is also a longstanding sports rivalry with EHS. I don't know about now, but when I was in high school they had good college matrics--my circle of friends from there ended up at Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Princeton, and Davidson. Lots of grads ended up at southern schools, too, like Vandy, Sewanee, Emory, U of Richmond, UNC, UVA, W&L, etc. I see a fair number of WFS hats around Duke these days.</p>
<p>Finally, while Woodberry is indeed in the middle of nowhere it is within reasonable distance of Charlottesville and UVA. When I was at bs we were jealous that the WFS boys got to be so close to such a nice college town. Of course, I REALLY went to school in the middle of nowhere so my opinion doesn't count for much...</p>