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...still not in love with Cabot. But I'm over the fear of a 15-minute walk. It's nice to actually live in a neighborhood, with real people and away from the annoying, prep-school bustle of the Square...
Carter says the two years she had spent at a prep school helped her adjust to dorm life more easily than her first-year roommates. In the co-ops, she says, she found more maturity and freedom...
...even if the same forces that created the old-boy network are still welding together the future bourgeoisie, the Establishment to come will be much more progressive in outlook. Most students at Andover and other prep schools describe their politics as liberal compared to that of their parents...
...other good thing that has not changed with almost everything else is the intensely close friendships that develop at the prep school. Just imagine living with your classmates 24 hours a day, sharing meals with them, griping about homework with them standing side-by-side on the sports field with them, appearing onstage with them, discussing the newspaper with them (when you have time to read it rather than skim it) and finally graduating with them. After three or four years of that how could anyone not be friends for life...
...bottom line is that the prep school provides teaching second to none, a plethora of offerings in their curricula, enviable facilities, full time and effective counseling and an experience that many alumni believe to be the best years of their lives. Yes, the stereotypical prep school and preppie still exist, but to blindly believe in anachronistic archetypes is to ignore the more complex reality...