The Top Prep Schools in the US - Forbes Magazine, April 2010
In April 2010, Forbes Magazine published a list of the top 20 (private) prep schools in the US. They based their rankings on "student/faculty ratio, percentage of faculty that possess advanced degrees, size of the school's endowment." They also took into account the percentage of graduates who enrolled into top 10 colleges (mostly Ivy League.)
1. Trinity School - Upper West Side, Manhattan
2. Horace Mann - Riverdale, NY
3. Phillips Academy Andover - Andover, MA
4. Brearley - Upper East Side, Manhattan
5. Roxbury Latin - West Roxbury, MA
6. Phillips Exeter Academy - Exeter, NH
7. Collegiate - Upper West Side, Manhattan
8. St. Paul's - Concord, NH
9. Spence - Upper East Side, Manhattan
10. Winsor - Boston, MA
11. Chapin - Upper East Side, Manhattan
12. Harvard-Westlake - Los Angeles, CA
13. Dalton - Upper East Side, Manhattan
14. Lawrenceville School - Princeton, NJ
15. Groton School - Groton, MA
16. Milton Academy - Boston, MA
17. College Preparatory School - Oakland, CA
18. Noble and Greenough School - Dedham, MA
19. Hopkins School - New Haven, CT
20. Deerfield Academy - Deerfield, MA
Another Answer1. Phillips Exeter Academy
2. Phillips Academy Andover
3. Deerfield Academy
4. Hotchkiss School
5. Lawrenceville
6. St. Paul's School
7. Middlesex School
8. Groton School
9. Taft School
10. Kent School
No they are just prep schools
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a preparatory school gets a student ready for college. a student can get college credits at a prep school.
Prep can be short for either preparatory (as in preparatory schools) or preparation (as in homework preparation).
Some courses offered at Christian High Schools include College Prep Programs, ACT and SAT Prep, Math, Science, English and more. Most Christian high schools offer the same courses as any other high school.
If your a prep opt now and your yong than maby you might have a chance if you really want it but It costs alot to be elite and if your a prep opt it will take you a long time. It really depends on how hard you work, what kind of scores you get and if your willing to pay. It is possible but you have to get out of prep opt and into optionals!
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Its one of the top schools in the country
There are several military acadamies as well as military prep schools in the USA.
Many of the top colleges do know that some schools (prep schools and private schools) have tougher grading standards. If you're applying from a prep school, the college admissions office is likely to know more about your school than others and will likely compare your GPA to other prep school students from the same.