Episcopal HS vs Lawrenceville

[Anonymous]

My kid will have these two options for school next year as a 9th grader. Which would you choose? I know Lawrenceville is more prestigious, but I don't think he'd succeed in an academic pressure cooker situation. Episcopal seems more laid back, almost like a public school but on a gorgeous boarding school campus. I also think having less competitive classmates could make college admissions easier. I also like that Episcopal doesn't have Saturday classes like Lawrenceville does.

Which do you think is the better option?

[Anonymous]

EHS has only borders. It’s something to take into consideration. Certainly would be a plus for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EHS has only borders. It’s something to take into consideration. Certainly would be a plus for me.

+1 day students (and their cars) lead to all sorts of problems.

[Anonymous]

May I ask how you know about Lville before March 10?

[Anonymous]

EHS is 100% boarding. Students do not have cars on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EHS has only borders. It’s something to take into consideration. Certainly would be a plus for me.

A very scientific Google search says that over two-thirds of Lawrenceville's students live on-campus. There's likely a sense of camaraderie amongst the boarders that you might not get at a school with mostly day students.

[Anonymous]

By reputation at least EHS is very southern, ie conservative. Does that matter?
Also Saturday classes can be a hood thing to keep kids on a bit more of a schedule.

[Anonymous]

Congrats! Can't go wrong either way.

[Anonymous]

I went to one of these, and then my college class had a huge number of kids from the other. Can't go wrong. Have your kid participate in accepted students weekends, since they are both close.

[Anonymous]

Lawrenceville is a far superior school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:May I ask how you know about Lville before March 10?

I’d guess the answer is lacrosse recruit

[Anonymous]

We had same choice and kid chose Episcopal; I think they were more comfortable being local and good for us to come to sports events. Episcopal is luring great teachers through their recent capital campaign with the goal to have all teachers have free houses/housing on campus. They just built two new dorms with no interest in increasing number of students all to provide higher teacher/student involvement.

[Anonymous]

Neither of these schools have sent acceptances yet. However I do know of one family whose son applied to both - they are so different so that’s a pretty small group - trying to think what this person could gain by posting this…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid will have these two options for school next year as a 9th grader. Which would you choose? I know Lawrenceville is more prestigious, but I don't think he'd succeed in an academic pressure cooker situation. Episcopal seems more laid back, almost like a public school but on a gorgeous boarding school campus. I also think having less competitive classmates could make college admissions easier. I also like that Episcopal doesn't have Saturday classes like Lawrenceville does.

Which do you think is the better option?

Life is short. I would not do boarding school for teens. My kids needed us more than ever as teens in different ways. You want to be there at night for the late night talks after they finished studying or doing homework. Even that 1-2 times a week will mean a lot when they go to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid will have these two options for school next year as a 9th grader. Which would you choose? I know Lawrenceville is more prestigious, but I don't think he'd succeed in an academic pressure cooker situation. Episcopal seems more laid back, almost like a public school but on a gorgeous boarding school campus. I also think having less competitive classmates could make college admissions easier. I also like that Episcopal doesn't have Saturday classes like Lawrenceville does.

Which do you think is the better option?

Life is short. I would not do boarding school for teens. My kids needed us more than ever as teens in different ways. You want to be there at night for the late night talks after they finished studying or doing homework. Even that 1-2 times a week will mean a lot when they go to college.

You clearly did not go to boarding school yourself. There are kids out there for whom boarding school is a blessing (I was one of them). I became *much* closer with my parents, mom in particular after I went away. I needed freedom, room to do things my way, and to get out of my brother's shadow and my very small town. For me, it really was the best possible thing. I also went to a boarding school that was only about 90 minutes away so my parents could visit, I could go home on weekends, etc. I would enter that into the calculus.