Official Target Boarding Schools
Within a few years Summer Analyst recruitment will happen during high school, so kids looking to break in need to attend at least a semi-target. Would highly recommend any freshman / sophomores reading this lateral to one of the following.
Tier 1: Super Targets
Andover / Exeter
The HYPSM of boarding schools. Exeter a little more IQ, Andover a little more EQ.
Tier 2: Targets
St. Pauls / Groton / Choate / Lawrenceville / Hotchkiss / Deerfield
Super Target if you're Deerfield or Lville lax. Most kids end up at solid target colleges (Gtown/Dartmouth/Richmond)
Tier 3: Semi-Targets
Loomis / Taft / St. George's / Milton / Middlesex / Cate / Thacher
Solid but worth moving up market. Cate & Thatcher West Coast targets. Taft lax / thirds hockey target.
Tier 4: Rest
If you're not at one of the above consider retaking SSAT and re-recruiting
Maybe you meant this as satire and I am not doxing myself but my HS had internships from BB IB in high school. This is a real thing. Then again I am probably old as dirt compared to you.
Were their last names Dimon, Blankfein, or Paulson?
You almost got the timing right by including Paulson so I'm guessing you already know.
Went to one of these schools and attend a semi-target college. Got interviews at 3 places that my college had 0 alumni at because of alumni from my HS. It's crazy
Also most of the lax players from my year placed at MMs, the sweats dominated EB/BB
The problem I ran into coming from one of these and a target college is that the target colleges have their own recruiting teams, so the boarding school alum cant do much unless they also went to the same college or know someone who did
For places where my college had a recruiting team, I did my earliest calls with alumni from my HS as "practice"; that way I'd be less of an awkward mess when talking to the people who had influence over my recruitment
Can we get target middle schools next? I think that would help ~50% of WSO’s userbase
S tier - NYC Elite Schools: St. Bernards, St. Davids, top k-12s (Trinity / Collegiate)
Target Tier - CT / Westchester schools: Brunwick (lax S tier), GCDS, Riverdale
Rest
Someone fill in elementary / pre-schools by EOD
Here's a better list- Also gotta seperate it out by gender but I'll do the male POV since it's more pertinent:
S tier: Trinity, STD, Dalton, Collegiate
A-tier: Buckley, Grace (just made a HS, but shit), STB, Hill Schools: (Riverdale, Fieldston, Horace Mann)
B-tier: Allen Stevenson, Avenues, Browning, Columbia Grammar,
C-tier: Trevor Day, Lycee, Dwight
Anywhere else, you're probably bound for equities in Dallas.
Elementary list is the same as middle school
Preschool:
S tier: Episcopal, 92Y (I heard Goldman does on campus recruiting), Brick
A tier: St Thomas More, Garden House, Christ Church, Emanu-El (if Jewish)
Groton is something in between Target and Semi imo. Tough to comp them since they are pretty small.
St. George's is absolutely not on the level of Milton/Middlesex/Taft. All else equal I don't know anyone who'd go there over those other 3 and their college placement is pretty mid. Don't see them as better than somewhere like St. Mark's or even Suffield.
Beyond that, pretty accurate grouping of how these schools are perceived and how they tend to do as far as college placement. Definitely a big drop off from the schools in Semi-Target range (minus St. George's) and the rest of the pack, though places like Peddie, Blair, and Hill are pretty solid too.
Left out Peddie / Blair / Hill because they’re more in the mid atlantic scene. St George's isn't as good academically as the others but it's incredibly wealthy and has a gorgeous campus on a cliff overlooking Newport, so punches above its academic weight. Also Tucker Carlson lol. No I didn't go there.
SGS is wealthy, NEPO, and has a 14% acceptance rate, which is lower than most schools here.
Would put Nobles up there in the T2
Not a boarding school if you never stay a full week
Its a boarding school, a 5 day one( More like 6.5) but a boarding school nonetheless.
WSO is not real lmfao.
This thread is out of my tax bracket
We need a post for junior boarding schools
Eaglebrook S-Tier for sure
You forgot the holy grail, Le Rosey
Shhhh… let them think they are elite (they seem to really enjoy it)
I have friends from Le Rosey and TASIS and have been to both. Sure the kids are very wealthy but most of them end up going to random colleges and dramatically underachieving because 1) the admissions standards for those schools is purely connections based rather than intelligence and 2) they don't push students academically at all
A friend of mine who left Le Rosey for one of the American boarding schools listed above said the American kids were way higher achieving and wealth was similar regardless
lol the wealth is not similar …. you guys grew up in Marblehead and think Mass is the center of the universe
this is gross
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