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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is not at Kenyon, but I have spent time on campus and my kid is a D3 athlete.  Kenyon is a beautiful campus with spectacular athletic facilities.  Good luck to your child and you MIL should keep her mouth shut.[/quote]
Agree. SLAC are nothing like a public high school! Really stupid thing to “wonder”.[/quote]

Many SLACs are similar--very similar--to prep boarding schools and may resemble to a lesser extent good private day schools.[/quote]

Similar in what way?  My kids graduated from or currently attend three different private day schools in the DMV, all generally deemed as "Big 3" by DCUM.  The oldest two went on to a NESCAC college.  Neither has found it to "resemble" their high school other than in being a relatively small school where it is easy to get to know their classmates.  Both have found their college classes to be more demanding and neither is bored in the least.  [/quote]

Was thinking mostly of the elite New England prep boarding schools (HADES for example) and elite NYC private day schools. (Know of several dozen kids who experienced this from those schools.)

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Interesting. My DCs attended an NYC private day schools and have friends, either from camp or their day school, who attended NE boarding schools. When they are hanging out, I'm not hearing them say, "oh, it's just like HS." Some of them acknowledge that the rigor prepared them for school, but not the social scene.

It's not the 1980s.[/quote]

What does this mean ????[/quote]

It's not the 1980s - these schools are much more diverse than they were in the 1980s and the student bodies are not comprised of HADES grads.[/quote]

*overwhelmingly comprised[/quote]

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