Thoughts on Swiss boarding schools?
Did you go there, have you heard any interesting/entertaining stories and would you send your kid to one?
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From Europe but currently studying in the US. I know some kids that went to Rosey/Beau Soleil. It goes without saying that the education is great, facilities are phenomenal (I forgot which school but they have their own skiing section on a mountain) and the university destinations are strong. I personally think that US boarding schools are stronger due to having all of the above AND a strong student body. You’ll find that a lot of kids that attend the Swiss schools are legacy ridden and payed their way there. It seems very cult-y with rich kids not having much ambition. I know one girl that went to a top New england boarding school and she is definitely the party type, but you could definitely count on her to ace her exams. Someone else can maybe chime in but that’s my view on them.
I was in a Swiss boarding school and left to finish college in an English one. Best decision of my teenage years. Most of my friends now are from these English boarding school and it is not unusual so find some some of the Swiss guys treated with condescension just for that. The facilities are very similar but the people are just from a different breed. In my experience, Swiss boarders are completely disconnected from the real world and extremely superficial. I've observed them to be completely unable to adapt to different situations. It basically comes down to wether you want your kid to spend 5k for Dom aux Caves at 15 years old or behave in a respectable manner
No chance I would send them to a Swissy. If you are bored, go look at some of the college acceptances at Beau Soliel or even Rosey. It is not that impressive. To be fair, these kids do not NEED an Ivy degree to be successful, but, just taking the fact that you spent 100k ea. yr on high school, I want some value.
Not to offend anyone, BUT, if I dropped that coin and my daughter ended up going to Miami or SMU or the European equivalent, I would not be happy.
It could be my middle class tendencies, but some of those kids just need a hug and not another 100k put on their checking account. It's a weird way to grow up...basically having unlimited money, surrounded by other kids as rich or richer than you, with no real authority figure. Sounds like a wealthy lord of the flies to me.
LOL, I went to Catholic prep school in the US and there were some kids who went to community college right after. No idea why
a girl 2 grades above me became a stripper. I have every idea why
A bunch of my friends and kids I grew up with went to the American boarding schools (Exeter, Andover, Choate, Deerfield) and I went to one of the best day schools. Good US schools blow Swiss boarders out of the water when it comes to actual taught academics. I’ve run into a bunch of Swiss and English kids when I made my rounds of the party circuits, and they were all unbelievably dumb.
Can second this. Also went to a New England boarding school and I think the caliber of students is significantly higher.
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English/American boarding schools are where it’s really at- swiss schools are usually filled with trust fund kids who don’t want to work as hard as the US kids
Ayyy New England prep gang
The more people I meet, the more thankful I am of where I was raised and went to school, getting a good education as a foundation has been immeasurably valuable.
Knew a kid from undergrad who went to le rosey and talked about the 18 year olds hooking up with 13 year olds. Weird shit goes down there. Kid was dumb as rocks too, but his daddy was a donor.
Almost a decade ago, I dated briefly a girl that went to one, then went to LSE in London.
The pros: fluent in 5 languages. Well-read and knowledgeable. Really cool hobbies, she played soccer for Real Madrid. 9.5 looks, basically the equivalent of an IG model. Leggy babe wearing Louboutins. Wild in bed.
It goes downhill from there really quickly though. Broken family, father cheated on mother and she found that out by reading his phone and told her mother. Entire family except her was killed. Ex-bf also from the same school stabbed her after she told him she was in love with him.... and another guy. Looking back this was one of the times I learned red flags aren't meant to be ignored. School wise, she took the International Baccalaureate and she told me the exam was rigged. She got top marks anyway and I know she passed answers to the following year's cohort. She also slept with 14 different guys in 2 weeks. She worked at a embassy in London and simply skipped the queue to get that job because her family worked in that environment. Finally, she dumped her because I wasn't a fan of her female friend being a Colombian drug dealer. Shortly after dumping me, she got engaged to a Lebanese dude and got pregnant. Broadly, she was very hypocritical, entitled and dishonest.
Basically a living stereotype of the upper class, with all the luxury and rotten decadence.
edit: adding details as they resurface
Please explain how everyone in this girl's family was killed? She told her mother about her father's cheating and then what?
It's completely unrelated. They were higher tier govt officials and were either assassinated or fell victims of some sort of ''ambush''. I don't know the details because the girl herself never wanted to know.
I'm in the category of neither/none of the above on these elite boarding schools. "What good is it to gain the whole world but lose your very own soul?"
If you love your children you'd rather see them grow up as good men and women of character who are less rich and powerful than as rich and powerful deranged, narcissistic, indoctrinated, hypocritical Woke incarnate. Who cares if your kids are part of the ruling elite if they are bad people?
I have this engraved on the bottom of my gold ring - Matthew 16:26
The main advantage of many Swiss boarding schools is the fact that they do the IB. Yes, they have a great network (children of CEOs, diplomats etc.) but you won't leverage your high school network as much as your college one. Doing the IB in Switzerland is like gaining investment banking experience at a low-tier MM; you're doing so by getting the worse deal possible. I would recommend any other place that isn't as expensive to do the IB. If you like Swiss boarding schools besides the fact they offer IB, then go for it elsewhere find another country or school.
My experience- it is incredibly hard to focus on your studies when everyone around you just wants to party and have fun. You get pulled into that ”lazy” lifestyle, and it is incredibly hard to stay motivated at times
The IB programme can be really good but you don’t need to send your kid to a swiss school with serious issues for it
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