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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She wants to be happy.  She wants a school where the students are friendly and respectful to each other.  She's always been a "gamma girl" -- moving among different crowds and trying to be on good terms with everyone.  Academically, she is a fantastic writer, so opportunities for creative writing are important.  She's also interested in issues affecting girls around the world (access to education, preventing child marriage and trafficking, etc.), and she's looking for opportunities for leadership in that area.  She's recently started playing lacrosse, so I imagine that she'll want to play in a reasonably non-competitive, entry-level environment.  Hope that helps.  [/quote]

She will get more focus on her writing at either St. Andrews or Holton, given the small class sizes and emphasis on writing assignments.  For the girls' issues, probably opportunities at all three places, but the most at Holton because of the all-girls' focus.

For the sports, Holton has the most competitive lacrosse program of all three places but I don't think she would have a problem making the JV team at any of the three places -- whether varsity is in the cards for her would depend on how fast she progresses.  The smaller private schools will have more additional sports opportunity, for example, were she to go to Holton she could try to pick up field hockey (St. Andrews doesn't offer it), which is a good sport to "start late" in general because there are not many youth sports opportunities.  There will also be some opportunities for no cut sports at BCC (cross country, say), but with more kids it can be harder to make varsity teams in sports with more limited rosters.

She sounds like a nice, talented kid who would do well at any of those schools.  Congrats to her and good luck to your family as you make the choice.[/quote]

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