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[quote=Anonymous]I had two kids attend HB.  They graduated quite a while ago.  They applied because they were quirky and not mainstream at all, and that’s the reputation that the school has long had before they applied and I imagine it still has today.

The school was as advertised.  They both blossomed in a way I can’t imagine they would have in the neighborhood school.  I say this because I also had two kids attend the neighborhood schools so I know what they’re like.  They both did very well  socially, but they were mainstream types.

So, yes, in my experience HB has a more gentle and more accepting social scene.  It’s not a myth.

The real myth is that HB is better academically.  It isn’t at all.  Not only were the course offerings the same, my impression was that many of the same courses offered at the neighborhood schools were taught with more rigor than at HB.  And my HB grads did no better or worse than my neighborhood school grads on the college admissions front.  They all basically got the same grades in the same courses and had very similar test scores, and they all basically got into the same colleges.  The real difference was the social scene.

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