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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, I did it.  My kid went to school north of Baltimore for 2 years.  It was fabulous.  It was too far to just show up but very easy to grab dinner, see her at games, or come home for the weekend.  She left that school after 2 years and went to a New England BS.  Without the structure of the Baltimore school, she never would have gotten into the New England school.

There is something to be said for structured study halls, access to teachers outside of the classroom, lights out, no wifi hours, scaffolded independence, after school activities built into the day, and no need to wait for mom or dad to take you to practice.  In a lot of ways, it's summer sleep away camp with academics.

My kid is worlds ahead of her classmates at college in terms of being able to balance her independence/freedom, school work, activities, and friendships.  We have an extremely close relationship.  Even now, I know all about her friends and the hall drama.  When she was in BS, I knew much more about her social life than my friends did with kids at home.  [/quote]

Sounds like St Timothy's , Oldfields or Garrison Forest, all good places for a girl to make great friends while being in a semi-structured environment. Their boarding tuition and fees have gotten really high though, in the region of 70k for St Timothy's I think. [/quote]

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