Elite Boarding Schools - Andover, Exeter, etc. any experiences

Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, TX for those of you have a little turd who needs constant discipline

Unless you have some wild connections, your little Southern cracker kid won’t be able to get in. There are plenty of good boarding schools in the South that will, and they’ll be just as prepared as Mortimer Fartknocker V, but without Yankee indoctrination.

Yep. I did a summer session at Lawrenceville. Know people who went to Deerfield, Episcopal, Groton and a few others.
My brother went to Blue Ridge. Four uncles, my dad and his sister all went to boarding schools.

ETA: I almost went to Woodberry Forest, but decided to stay. My great uncle has a lecture series named after him there.

Daughter of someone we do business went to one of them, forget which. Then on to Wesleyan, then worked for an independent publishing company in Brooklyn. Complete hipster trajectory. Until she decides to go to law school, at Bama of all places. She goes all Roll Tahd, gets married, becomes a stay at home mom with a law degree. The most chameleon like person I've ever met. Completely blends in with whatever environment she finds herself in.

Not sure about ‘elite’ but I went to New Mexico Military Institute from 00-04. It was a great experience and much better education than the shite that south LA would’ve offered me. I wouldn’t send a daughter there but would think about sending a son. The boarding school experience always blows people away when I say that I was basically on my own at 14yo. The military aspect definitely added to the experience. Biggest thing was discipline, time management and self sufficiency. I would recommend.

I'm friends with two brothers who went to St Paul's and another guy who went to Woodberry. They all do well, but they obviously came from money as well

i have a couple founders league alum friends

they say it was a strange mix of normal american rich kids, nerd geniuses, and overseas royalty that could get away with murder

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Personally, I've never understood why you'd want to have someone else raise your child and miss a good part of their teenage formative years.

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This was always my thinking as well.

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Personally, I've never understood why you'd want to have someone else raise your child and miss a good part of their teenage formative years.

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not to mention why would you want to miss out on that time with your kid. you can never get that back and its some of the best years.

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Personally, I've never understood why you'd want to have someone else raise your child and miss a good part of their teenage formative years.

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I could never send my boys off to school because I love being around them too much and would miss them too much, but I'm assuming those who do send theirs off do it for making connections.