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Choate Rosemary Hall

School rating 4 / 5 by

333 Christian Street Wallingford CT 06492 United States
Boarding
9th to PG
Day
9th to PG
Gender
Coed

Academic

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One of my favorite aspects of Choate Rosemary Hall was the relationships I had with faculty members, which is partly due to the small class size. They did everything in their power to foster our intellectual growth. Not only did they hold office hours and check e-mail, but most of them gave out their home contact information so that we could reach them at all hours of the day or night, something that is not so much the case in college. I'm still incredibly grateful for the care they showed us every day, and to this day, I still keep in touch with my freshman English teacher, among others. I myself am more inclined towards foreign languages - Chinese and Spanish in particular. Choate's foreign language program is spectacular. I still draw on what I learned at Choate in my graduate level Spanish classes today and have always been much better prepared because of it. As a matter of fact, Choate uses the same curriculum as my college Spanish department to teach the language to beginners. Studying abroad for a term is also an amazing opportunity that not many high school students have, and again, when I went back in college to study at a Spanish university, I was prepared for the worst of the culture shock that the other students in my program faced.

College Counseling

Because neither of my parents attended college in the States, I entered the college process....

Sample insights on college counseling

  • They have contacts at most of the major universities and feel perfectly comfortable picking up the phone and advocating for a student to get accepted somewhere they feel is a good fit for that student. However, these counselors are certainly not magic bullets. They cannot guarantee that a student will get into an Ivy League university...
  • For those wishing to move on to Oxford or Cambridge, the provision is second-to-none. In the months running up to application and interview, every subject faculty offers classes (often run by former Oxbridge tutors) exploring further areas of their subject as well as offering advice on personal statements, interview technique and more...

Admissions - Getting Accepted

My memory of my Choate admission process is a little fuzzy; it was 8 years....

Sample insights on admissions

  • For the interview, dress conservatively. Try to be very clean and put together. Also, I was a tour guide for two years and at the end of every tour, we were asked to evaluate the candidate so if you think the tour is not apart of the process, you are very wrong. Ask questions and be interested. Also, tip for the parents: the kids speak on the tour. Do not ask their questions for them...
  • Most younger siblings have an easy time in the admissions process. I can only think of one case of a younger sibling not being admitted. About half of the students who entered with me had come from public schools. The remainder came from private K-6 schools, or had transferred from other New York private schools The Elizabeth Morrow School and St. Bernard were two of the larger feeder schools...

School Life

There is an understandable rivalry with the "townies," which mainly translates to honks from cars driving by and poses no serious threat to the safety and security of Choate students. The dining hall food is not nearly has horrible as it could be, especially when compared to college food. The open salad and sandwich bar were always a huge help when the chicken tetrazzini looked less than appealing. The campus, of course, is stunning, and I think that there is a good blend of smaller, more intimate dorms with larger, more social dorms. In any case, the student-faculty relationships are....

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