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re: Elite Boarding Schools - Andover, Exeter, etc. any experiences
Posted on 11/14/22 at 6:52 am to lsu777
Posted on 11/14/22 at 6:52 am to lsu777
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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.
This is true but a lot of folks don’t have these values. They’ve got the money so they send the kids away and keep on with their lives.
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Posted on 11/14/22 at 7:10 am to bamaphan13
Acquaintance of mine sent his sons to Exeter for one year after they finished high school. He apparently went there himself. Not sure what the game plan was, I assume connections and resume. (or just wanted to brag about how much it cost)
Posted on 11/14/22 at 7:18 am to bamaphan13
It seems that you are referring to the Ivy League private schools.
I worked with a guy who went to Phelps in Andover. He was Jewish so didn't fit in. JFK Jr was the ultimate stoner, and not very smart. Nothing but weed smoke in the dorms.
An older friend went to one of the, he died earlier this year at that age of 90. What it did for him is access to capital which turned him into a silent partner small oil company with global reach. He would get say 10-15% of a new field in places like the North Sea, Kurdistan, and he was even offered Marathon's operating share of that Libyan oilfield in 2012. Big money looks for places to invest and turn a profit.
I worked with a guy who went to Phelps in Andover. He was Jewish so didn't fit in. JFK Jr was the ultimate stoner, and not very smart. Nothing but weed smoke in the dorms.
An older friend went to one of the, he died earlier this year at that age of 90. What it did for him is access to capital which turned him into a silent partner small oil company with global reach. He would get say 10-15% of a new field in places like the North Sea, Kurdistan, and he was even offered Marathon's operating share of that Libyan oilfield in 2012. Big money looks for places to invest and turn a profit.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 7:21 am to vistajay
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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.
I've always thought that these parents either can't raise their own children properly or simply don't want to be bothered with this task.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 7:40 am to bamaphan13
The guy that lived across the hall from me my freshman year, went to Andover. He was different. He dressed up every day for class. He’d wear A suit most days. He was smart but awkward. He always talked about the guys on campus being ugly and couldn’t believe they wore t shirts and jeans to class.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 7:45 am to bamapoet
quote:Couple baws from Albany LA lived across hall in my dorm. They told me they can't believe I'm wearing jeans with a hole in the knee. "Momma would kill me". (southern farmer version of your story)
He always talked about the guys on campus being ugly and couldn’t believe they wore t shirts and jeans to class.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 7:56 am to vistajay
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I think y'all are talking about McCallie, as the boarding school near Sewanee. Great school.
McCallie is in Chattanooga. St. Andrew’s is in Sewanee, TN. I had many cousins go to Sewanne way back wjen still military and family go to the boarding school next to it, St. Andrews. Would absolutely go to or send kids to either. I went to Kemper Military school for a little bit, fricking horrible experience, but then again, I was not the best cadet.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 8:49 am to xraytiger
My wife's cousin (who was dirt poor) got a full ride to Chamberlain-Hunt in Port Gibson for baseball. He never went to college and works on a rig. All I remember is most of those boys were tough/bad.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 8:54 am to bamaphan13
Depends on the school but I have a lot of friends who went to Exeter, Culver Military, etc. and the best thing these schools do is allow your kids to network at an early age which will help them later in life with the wealthy connections they made.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:55 am to bamaphan13
A guy who I was good friends with when we were in elementary school and middle school went to the Alabama School of Math and Science (not really high society, but for super nerdy, extremely smart kids) for his Jr and Sr years of HS. He then went on to Bama for electrical engineering where he got some pretty prestigious Air Force internship that only like 30 college students in the country get. They put them interning in Air Force laboratories for like 3 or 4 months. Not sure exactly what he did, but I know he ended up doing the Air Force ROTC thing (that internship comes with like $15k in yearly ROTC scholarships upon completion) and became an Air Force pilot after school.
I ran into him at home over the Christmas holidays right after college and he was showing me a bunch of cool pictures of him flying.
Not sure if his time at boarding school really helped him at all because he was one of those dudes that was just extremely smart and would have been successful no matter what he ended up doing.
ETA: Just went and checked out his LinkedIn and yeah, he's done well for himself. He got his Master's in Applied Mathematics from U of Washington. He's still an AF officer/C130 pilot (I know we got a few here). He's been an instructor (C130H) in Tokyo, was stationed in Bavaria, and is now a professor of Aerospace Studies back in the States now. I'm happy for the guy.
I ran into him at home over the Christmas holidays right after college and he was showing me a bunch of cool pictures of him flying.
Not sure if his time at boarding school really helped him at all because he was one of those dudes that was just extremely smart and would have been successful no matter what he ended up doing.
ETA: Just went and checked out his LinkedIn and yeah, he's done well for himself. He got his Master's in Applied Mathematics from U of Washington. He's still an AF officer/C130 pilot (I know we got a few here). He's been an instructor (C130H) in Tokyo, was stationed in Bavaria, and is now a professor of Aerospace Studies back in the States now. I'm happy for the guy.
This post was edited on 11/14/22 at 10:03 am
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:59 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, TX
We played them in basketball back in the day. No idea if they still compete. The basketball team was mostly tall kids from Africa.
Mma definitely has a “knucklehead rehabilitation” population but there’s also a few local kids who want to join the military and are unfulfilled by the traditional high school setup.
This post was edited on 11/14/22 at 10:03 am
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:05 am to McVick
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A couple posters here mentioned St. Paul's. Are you all talking about the one in New Hampshire
Guys I posted about went to St Paul’s I’m New Hampshire
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:06 am to bamaphan13
If an OT'er gets their kid into a boarding school of the caliber of Exeter, Andover, or Choate Rosemary....they should absolutely take that opportunity. It's nearly impossible to get into those places without a family connection to the school these days.
It's going to suck not seeing baw larvee during their high school years, but it's going to open doors for them.
It's going to suck not seeing baw larvee during their high school years, but it's going to open doors for them.
This post was edited on 11/14/22 at 10:08 am
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:57 am to bamaphan13
Knew a lot of guys who went to the elite southern boarding schools like Woodberry Forest, Christ School, McCauley, Saint Andrews and Asheville School.
Then I met my in-laws who all went to boarding schools in New England, Deerfield, Miss Porter's, St. Pauls, and Choate.
Same idea but the scale of the schools in New England was just different. Those schools have endowments larger than most SEC Universities.
Then I met my in-laws who all went to boarding schools in New England, Deerfield, Miss Porter's, St. Pauls, and Choate.
Same idea but the scale of the schools in New England was just different. Those schools have endowments larger than most SEC Universities.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 11:13 am to HempHead
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They all cost near enough the same, 45-60k. Same price tag as sending them to a private liberal arts college.
So, my idea of a Hogwarts Style boarding school would work? I just need Musk to build me a replica in the Rockies and subsidize it until it becomes self-sufficient from the tuition.
6th grade thru 12th
Max of 100 kids per class split into 4 houses
When we finally get 7 years in, $35mm/year in tuition.
Kids will take a in-depth personality profile and get split into the Houses based upon it.
This post was edited on 11/14/22 at 11:15 am
Posted on 11/14/22 at 11:25 am to bamaphan13
There is apparently a notch boarding schools a couple miles from us. Robert Louis Stevenson. The few kids I’ve met from there seem weird as shite, and the one adult I know in his 30s that went there is successful business/career wise but he is a nutcase idiot in every other regard.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 11:40 am to SuperSaint
Nephew graduated from Exeter last year. He loved it - said the education was amazing, played Lacrosse.
He said it was amazingly liberal, but he didn't let it get to him.
But it didn't help him get into any of the colleges he wanted - he was applying to the best of the best. In fact, it seems to have hurt him as a white male. He had great grades (Exeter does not report class rank), stellar SAT, student leadership, pianist, athlete. The big issue is Exeter offers no AP course as they consider all courses there to be college level. So, on his application he has zero AP and many schools no longer even look at SAT. He's just another rich white male.
He said it was amazingly liberal, but he didn't let it get to him.
But it didn't help him get into any of the colleges he wanted - he was applying to the best of the best. In fact, it seems to have hurt him as a white male. He had great grades (Exeter does not report class rank), stellar SAT, student leadership, pianist, athlete. The big issue is Exeter offers no AP course as they consider all courses there to be college level. So, on his application he has zero AP and many schools no longer even look at SAT. He's just another rich white male.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 12:11 pm to MAROON
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The big issue is Exeter offers no AP course as they consider all courses there to be college level. So, on his application he has zero AP and many schools no longer even look at SAT.
So, while Exeter doesn't offer AP courses your nephew still has the option for sitting for the exams. The exam score is really the only thing that matters. Recent numbers from the school indicates that 86% of students that sit for any exam score a 4 or 5. Those are some good odds of demonstrating mastery of the subject.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 12:25 pm to goofball
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If an OT'er gets their kid into a boarding school of the caliber of Exeter, Andover, or Choate Rosemary....they should absolutely take that opportunity. It's nearly impossible to get into those places without a family connection to the school these days.
Maybe if you’re a white boy. I just looked at all the top boarding school websites and if you believe the pictures they use on their websites it’s about 95% minorities and chicks.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 12:26 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
They make sure to put the minorities on their websites but they are still mostly white/Anglo.
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