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re: Elite Boarding Schools - Andover, Exeter, etc. any experiences
Posted on 11/11/22 at 5:53 pm to bamaphan13
Posted on 11/11/22 at 5:53 pm to bamaphan13
Cuz went to Exeter. She will be here tomorrow if you have any specific questions that I can ask her. Partner in some things went to Groton. Nothing good to say. 
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Posted on 11/11/22 at 5:55 pm to bamaphan13
One of my best friends (now sadly RIP) graduated from Phillips Exeter.
He was half Yankee manufacturing family (Maternal side) and half Louisiana plantation owner (Paternal side).
His mom’s family had a summer house in Bar Harbor, Maine.
His brother (Choate, Duke) was a knucklehead.
My friend was a Tulane grad. Biting acerbic wit. Miss him, if there’s an afterlife I hope to meet him there so he can give me the lay of the land and the angles on how to play it.
He was half Yankee manufacturing family (Maternal side) and half Louisiana plantation owner (Paternal side).
His mom’s family had a summer house in Bar Harbor, Maine.
His brother (Choate, Duke) was a knucklehead.
My friend was a Tulane grad. Biting acerbic wit. Miss him, if there’s an afterlife I hope to meet him there so he can give me the lay of the land and the angles on how to play it.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:04 pm to soccerfüt
I do get, to a certain extent, wealthy families in a small Southern town sending kids to boarding school instead of the crappy local public HS or the tiny Christian school founded in 1960.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:09 pm to bamaphan13
I knew a few kids that did a post grad year. You get the same diploma. Must help with college admissions.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:12 pm to bamaphan13
I knew a bunch of kids that went to Avon Old Farms, Loomis Chaffee, Salisbury, etc. Just typical rich kids, but the connections gained through those places probably help them a ton. Just some basic high society circle jerk.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:13 pm to Fat Harry
A guy in his very late 30s whose beloved father passed away when his son was finishing up high school?
That should be specific enough without revealing too much.
That should be specific enough without revealing too much.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:19 pm to vistajay
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do get, to a certain extent, wealthy families in a small Southern town sending kids to boarding school instead of the crappy local public HS or the tiny Christian school founded in 1960.
While I don’t disagree, college choice should heavily depend on where you want to end up.
In all reality people talk shite about doing something like going to Ole Miss after going to McCallie, but if your family is in a big southern business or agriculture or something of the sort the reality is a going somewhere in the south does just as much for you as going to Ivy League. Same thing with a big ranch in texas or something. An Ivy League does little to nothing to teach you ranching.
Now if you have a bunch of kids that want to do something different, sure send them out of town.
But shite, if you have that much money you could have a second home in the city and go to a good school there and spend part of your time at your business/ property.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:30 pm to bamaphan13
My cousins, also from middle-class families, attended snotty New England boarding schools yet only got accepted to second-tier colleges.
All they got for the money was four years of early exposure to the coke-snorting trust fund babies and senators' kids who all got accepted to Ivy League schools because of the parents' legacy status.
If the kid is smart and attends a shitty public high school their standout grades, high SATs, and strong extracurriculars give them vastly better odds of getting into an Ivy League school - since those admissions officers can't accept only Exeter brats.
All they got for the money was four years of early exposure to the coke-snorting trust fund babies and senators' kids who all got accepted to Ivy League schools because of the parents' legacy status.
If the kid is smart and attends a shitty public high school their standout grades, high SATs, and strong extracurriculars give them vastly better odds of getting into an Ivy League school - since those admissions officers can't accept only Exeter brats.
This post was edited on 11/11/22 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:40 pm to pjab
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St Paul’s
A couple posters here mentioned St. Paul's. Are you all talking about the one in New Hampshire or is there a known boarding school somewhere in the South with the same name?
Posted on 11/11/22 at 6:45 pm to Tvilletiger
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Woodberry Forest is a great school for boys.
Especially if the education started at Alpine Camp for Boys.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 7:26 pm to bamaphan13
My wife (no pics) went to Exeter summer school in HS. Arab prince type dude tried to walk in on her while she was getting undressed to shower. Still want to kick his arse!!
Posted on 11/11/22 at 8:05 pm to McVick
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A couple posters here mentioned St. Paul's. Are you all talking about the one in New Hampshire or is there a known boarding school somewhere in the South with the same name?
There’s a Catholic boys school in Covington, LA by that name that used to take boarders. School still exists - no more boarders. I think they stopped taking them some time in the 90s. Knew a small handful of who boarded there. Far more at Stanislaus. That was all middle class Catholic school boys in S La knew of as “boarding schools” really. The girls had Sacred Heart Grand Couteau.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 8:38 pm to bamaphan13
Woodberry Grad here. Loved it.
It’s a different experience for sure and I was fortunate to attend. Boarding school definitely helped me become my own person.
It’s a different experience for sure and I was fortunate to attend. Boarding school definitely helped me become my own person.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 9:33 pm to Jim Rockford
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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.
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Completely blends in with whatever environment she finds herself in.
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she
Posted on 11/11/22 at 9:36 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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There’s a Catholic boys school in Covington, LA by that name that used to take boarders. School still exists - no more boarders. I think they stopped taking them some time in the 90s. Knew a small handful of who boarded there. Far more at Stanislaus. That was all middle class Catholic school boys in S La knew of as “boarding schools” really. The girls had Sacred Heart Grand Couteau.
Ah, makes sense. I thought maybe since other posters were mentioning Exeter and Groton that maybe there are some here that went to St. Paul's in NH or knew someone that did. It's a well-known private school on the same level as other ones mentioned in the thread.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 9:41 pm to bamaphan13
My daughter briefly dated someone who attended Choate (school JFK attended). Can’t say I recommend it based on how his behavior.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 9:46 pm to Y.A. Tittle
All the really fun HS girls in NOLA in the 80s got shipped off to Grand Coteau.
Posted on 11/13/22 at 11:02 pm to justaniceguy
Why would anyone go to an elite school then go to Ole Miss! Talk about a waste. Guess it was just to party anyway
Posted on 11/14/22 at 1:49 am to vistajay
I know a bunch of people who went to the Northeast boarding schools as well as the mid Atlantic ones like Woodberry. The results are a VERY mixed bag. Like others have said, if you live somewhere like Nola where there are good private schools, keep your kids local. A lot of boarding school kids have pre-existing behavior problems and that's not who you want your kids living with in snow covered dormitories in the middle of nowhere in January.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:58 am to Jim Rockford
quote:more degrees than a thermometer, becomes a mom. Sounds about right. These girls want to take over the world, then they soon realize how much work and the real world suck.
becomes a stay at home mom
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