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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What type of high school / prep school did your child attend ?

Most LACs resemble private boarding schools in most respects. LACs are somewhat like small towns--living in a tiny community where seemingly everyone knows your business.

Ours went to an elite prep boarding school and has shared that the idea of attending an LAC was of no interest as it would be too much like repeating boarding school.[/quote]

You share this experience often in posts about LACs. You might consider where and when this anecdote would be helpful. Should you join a thread to point out that our own child decided against a choice that someone else has already made? (Especially when your kid had a rarified school experience different than the vast majority of teens today?) No, that's not helpful or appropriate.

Your insight might be helpful if a poster asks "where should my elite prep boarding school student apply?" It's not relevant to the vast majority of families considering (or already committed to!) liberal arts colleges.[/quote]

Bless your soul; this little contribution of yours added zero value to anyone's life except your own.[/quote]

No, I think she helped and is absolutely right.   [b]It’s super odd for a boarding school parent to deride liberal arts colleges as nothing more than boarding schools.[/b]  [/quote]

Not if it’s accurate though.
DP[/quote]
Everyone is different. I found my time at Amherst nothing like Andover. College inherently has a pretty big difference in priorities and values of the student body and teaching faculty.

If you mean one is small than another is small, I guess Caltech is a boarding school.[/quote]

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