East Coast Boarding School recommendations

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Anonymous wrote:The Taft School is exceptional! Great community, culture, communication, the strong, academics, athletics, and the arts. They’ve only had six Headmasters since 1890. Full of tradition and beauty. Campus is like Harry Potter. I highly recommend the school. My son is thriving. He plays football, plays the violin, and is a Latin scholar, but interested in business. Very diverse place to serve all students. Excellent leadership!

I know tons of Taft grads and they all loved the school. A good friend of mine was a fac brat and I’d visit her there a lot in high school. Taft always struck me as a fun and warm place.

Another vote for Taft. That place is a gem. Beautiful campus and athletic facilities. Academically rigorous but puts out nice, well-rounded kids. Lot of high flier parents there but it somehow holds on to a down to earth vibe.

I went to (and loved) Choate but was friend with a Taft fac brat in college -- I have always heard excellent things about Taft! It was my second choice and in the end it was a tiny bit too crunchy for me (in the late 80s, at least).

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Anonymous wrote:Love St George's in RI!! Beautiful campus, amazingly fun opportunities with their Geronimo boat

NP. One of the meanest families and girls from DC went there.

St. George's is not a top ranked boarding school btw. Pretty campus but it is not even ranked in the top 50.

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Anonymous wrote:Love St George's in RI!! Beautiful campus, amazingly fun opportunities with their Geronimo boat

NP. One of the meanest families and girls from DC went there.

Tucker's kids??

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Anonymous wrote:The very top boarding schools are in the Group of 8/Eight Schools Association. It’s the Ivy League of boarding schools: Andover, Exeter, NMH, Choate, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Deerfield, and St Paul’s. I attended one of them and applied to all but NMH and St Paul’s. My experience is 20 years old at this point, but I loved it

I went to NMH and loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love St George's in RI!! Beautiful campus, amazingly fun opportunities with their Geronimo boat

NP. One of the meanest families and girls from DC went there.

Tucker's kids??

No

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Anonymous wrote:The very top boarding schools are in the Group of 8/Eight Schools Association. It’s the Ivy League of boarding schools: Andover, Exeter, NMH, Choate, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Deerfield, and St Paul’s. I attended one of them and applied to all but NMH and St Paul’s. My experience is 20 years old at this point, but I loved it

I don’t disagree with this, but it is an incomplete picture. If these 8 are Ivy equivalents, you still need to capture the other equivalents:
Williams=Groton
Stanford=Thacher
Duke=St.Andrew’s
I can’t think of an MIT? Maybe PISMS?
Chicago?

There are so many great schools. The headliner schools will have a lot of competition. There is a strategy to dropping down just one ranking notch. The same amazing teachers are at those schools as well. Warm communities.

And the best info on boarding schools is always on College Confidential in the Prep Schools section. Very active group. Does not have the snark you get on DCUM. Very helpful/savvy crowd.