Anonymous
Post 06/19/2016 06:43     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
NP here - my parents sent my brother to St James in Hagerstown bc he had fallen in with the wrong crowd, was failing 10th grade, and was being a major PITA at home. Maybe it was bc they didn't want to deal, but it worked. He got back on Deans list, went to a little Ivy, and has a good life now.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 21:49     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is an odd question, but I do not know where else to ask it.

If you live in a great public school and/or have access to stellar private schools then why would you send your kids to a second-tier NE boarding school? This probably applies more to people up North than down here because people down here do not seem to send their kids to boarding school as much or if they do they do five day boarding at one of the local boarding schools which I can kind of understand. I can understand sending your kids who is really smart to Andover and Exeter because they have excellent resources and have a good track record at top colleges, but laying down $50,000 for your kid to go to Berkshire or Brooks, I am really not so sure especially if it doesn't help them college wise. What's the deal?


And that everyone, is all I need to read, to lose interest completely. That is not an auto-correct issue, its just bad grammar!


I lost interest at the idea that lay my smart kid would be worthy of resources or investment

Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 21:48     Subject: Re:2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some kids need to get away from home. I know one kid who really turned around at boarding school.


+1 me, too. I have a friend who begged to go. Went to St. Andrew's in Delaware.


I know a family whose children did well there. It was good for son to be a middling student far from mom's pressuring.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 21:15     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Exeter grad here. When I was there in the 90s, it was Exeter, Andover, St Paul, Choate, Deerfield and Hotchkiss. The boarding school experience can be amazing. I would love to send my children. Andover was my top choice, but I didnt get in! The female founders of Revolution Foods and Gilt Group were my classmates. Really smart, ambituous and interesting kids.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 20:04     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Sorry forgot link: http://www.businessinsider.in/The-50-Most-Elite-Boarding-Schools-In-The-US/articleshow/45859419.cms?format=slideshow
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 20:03     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
I found this listing on DCUM. Maybe a little more accurate.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 19:41     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Anonymous wrote:Any list that ranks GDA (excuse me, the govenor's school) above Groton is BS.


This list is wack. Or as we used to call it Governor Dummer.....
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 18:38     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Any list that ranks GDA (excuse me, the govenor's school) above Groton is BS.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 13:23     Subject: Re:2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Yes.... a very interesting list. Particularly the specific ranking of schools on it, which has me scratching my head. But on the other hand it does emphasize that different schools are great schools for different types of students.

Anonymous wrote:Here is one list. Not saying I agree with it, but...
http://www.thebestschools.org/features/best-boarding-schools-in-us/
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 11:35     Subject: Re:2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is one list. Not saying I agree with it, but...
http://www.thebestschools.org/features/best-boarding-schools-in-us/


Phew, top 25. Go Hill!

Thanks for the definitive ranking.


Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 11:23     Subject: Re:2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Anonymous wrote:Here is one list. Not saying I agree with it, but...
http://www.thebestschools.org/features/best-boarding-schools-in-us/


Phew, top 25. Go Hill!

Thanks for the definitive ranking.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 10:55     Subject: Re:2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Here is one list. Not saying I agree with it, but...
http://www.thebestschools.org/features/best-boarding-schools-in-us/
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 10:53     Subject: Re:2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
I want to contest the idea that parents who send their kids to boarding school "don't want to parent," as one PP put it. For some parents, the most loving choice is to send their kid to boarding school. If you have a kid like mine, who is struggling to develop maturity and independence, the living/learning environment at boarding school can give DC the push that he/she needs to develop. And it's not like parents are uninvolved in the bs experience, for goodness' sake.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 10:49     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
So, what schools are first tier and what regional schools are 2d tier?
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2016 10:36     Subject: 2nd tier NE Boarding Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:. BTW, one of the sibs who went to boarding school boarding school went to the same Ivy that I attended, so college outcomes for "2nd-tier" boarding might be comparable to those for "top tier" day schools.


Hard to draw that conclusion without knowing things like grades and other matters.

There are boarding schools and day schools that both are regarded quite highly by colleges and others that aren't quite so high.


Earth-shattering insight.