최고의 명문고등학교 !!! (Prep School)

    No. 318 | 2009.04.09 10:09 am

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    미국의 저명한 경제지 [Forbes] 에서 미국 최고의 명문고등학교를 선정했습니다.

    어느 고등학교에 진학을 하던지, 학생들의 능력이 뛰어나다면 명문대학으로의 진학이 가능한 요즘이지만, 오랜 역사와 전통을 통해 생겨난 "명문" 이라는 타이틀은 쉽게 무시할수가 없는것 같습니다. 학교의 수업수준과 선생님들의 수준, 그리고 Ivy League 대학으로 진학하는 학생수, 최근의 유명도, 유명인사가 된 졸업생 등을 종합한 Forbes 가 선정한 미국 최고의 명문고등학교를 소개합니다. (아래의 번호는 순위가 아닙니다.)

    1. Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford, Conn.)

    - Founded: 1890
    - Size: 850 students on 450 acres
    - Tuition, boarding: $41,520
    - Tuition, day: $31,310
    - Endowment: $261 million

    ** Ivy League pipeline 2004-2008:
    - Yale: 30
    - Brown: 29
    - Cornell: 29
    - Harvard: 25

    Famous alumni: Playwright Edward Albee, John F. Kennedy, actresses Glenn Close and Jamie Lee Curtis, actors Michael Douglas and Paul Giamatti, heiress Ivanka Trump.

    Scandal: In 1984, 14 students were expelled for their involvement in attempting to smuggle $300,000 in cocaine back from Venezuela.


    2. The Lawrenceville School (Lawrenceville, N.J.)

    - Founded: 1810
    - Size: 800 students on 700 acres
    - Tuition, boarding: $44,900
    - Tuition, day: $36,760

    ** Ivy League pipeline 2004-2008:
    - Princeton: 62
    - Columbia: 36
    - Cornell: 35
    - UPenn: 35

    Famous Alumni: Michael Eisner, former CEO of the Walt Disney Co.


    3. Milton Academy (Milton, Mass.)

    - Founded: 1798
    - Size: 680 upper-school students and 294 lower-school students on 125 acres
    - Tuition, upper-school boarding: $40,395
    - Tuition, upper-school day: $33,150
    - Tuition, grades 6-8: $31,625
    - Tuition. grades 4-5: $25,200
    - Tuition, grades 1-3: $22,200
    - Tuition, kindergarten: $19,250
    - Endowment: $190 million

    ** Ivy League Pipeline 2006-2008:
    - Harvard: 34
    - Brown: 23
    - UPenn: 18
    - Yale: 16

    Famous Alumni: U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy, author T.S. Elliot, musician James Taylor.


    4. Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.)

    - Founded: 1778
    - Size: 1,105 students on 500 acres
    - Tuition, boarding: $39,100
    - Tuition, day: $30,500
    - Endowment: $777,500,000

    ** Ivy League Pipeline Class of 2008:
    - Yale: 16
    - UPenn: 13
    - Princeton: 13
    - Harvard: 9

    Famous alumni: Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, actors Humphrey Bogart and Jack Lemmon.



    5. Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, N.H.)

    - Founded: 1781
    - Size: 1,043 students (2008-2009) on 619 acres
    - Tuition, boarding: $37,960
    - Tuition, day: $29,330
    - Endowment: $1,077,168,623

    Famous alumni: President Franklin Pierce, writers John Knowles, John Irving and Dan Brown, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

    Scandal: In 1992, a drama teacher was arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography. Police confiscated 650 pornographic videotapes from his home and later identified former Exeter students in some of the videos.


    6. Sidwell Friends School (Washington, D.C., and Bethesda, Md.)

    - Founded: 1883
    - Size: 1,097 students (2008-2009) on 20 acres
    - Tuition, grades 5-12: $29,442
    - Tuition, grades PK-4: $28,442

    Claim to Fame: Sidwell is a political powerhouse now that Sasha and Malia Obama joined its student body; Joe Biden's grandchildren are also students.

    Famous alumni: Children of Presidents Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon.



    7. St. John's School (Houston, Texas)

    - Founded: 1946
    - Size: 1,200 students (2008-2009) on 28 acres
    - Tuition, grades 9-12: $18,170
    - Tuition, grades 6-8: $17,660
    - Tuition, grades K-5: $15,175

    ** Ivy League Pipeline 2004-2008:
    - Yale: 18
    - Dartmouth: 17
    - UPenn: 13
    - Princeton: 13
    - Columbia: 8

    Claim to Fame: Rejected President George W. Bush

    Famous Alumni: Filmmaker Wes Anderson



    8. St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.)

    - Founded: 1856
    - Size: 533 students on 2,000 acres
    - Tuition: $41,300
    - Endowment: $442 million

    ** Ivy League Pipeline 2005-2008:
    - Harvard: 23
    - UPenn: 20
    - Yale: 20

    Famous alumni: Sen. John Kerry, cartoonist Gary Trudeau and actor Judd Nelson.

    Scandal: In 2004, 15 girls were suspended for sexually motivated hazing of new girls.



    9. Punahou School (Honolulu, Hawaii)

    - Founded: 1841
    - Size: 3,760 students on 76 acres
    - Tuition: $16,675
    - Endowment: $174 million

    ** Ivy League Pipeline 2004-2008:
    - Ivy League: 82

    Famous Alumni: President Barack Obama



    10. The Westminster Schools (Atlanta, Ga.)

    - Founded: 1951
    - Size: 1,819 students on 180 acres
    - Tuition, grades 6-12: $19,080
    - Tuition, grades PK-5: $16,450
    - Endowment: $242,400,000

    ** Ivy League Pipeline Class of 2008:
    - Dartmouth: 6
    - Harvard: 3
    - Princeton: 3
    - UPenn: 3

    Famous alumni: Author Margaret Mitchell, actor Brian Baumgartner, Daily Show former correspondent Ed Helms, writer Rob Kutner.


    11. Miss Porter's (All Girls) - (Farmington, Conn.)

    - Founded: 1843
    - Size: 330 students
    - Tuition, boarding: $42,820
    - Tuition, day: $32,985
    - Endowment: $104 million (June 30, 2008)

    Famous alumni: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the mother of George H. W. Bush, Dorothy Walker Bush, screenwriter Suzannah Grant Henrickson.

    Scandal: In 2009 a senior alleged she was harassed by a group of classmates who nicknamed themselves Oprichniki, after the 16th century Russian torture squad



    12. Roxbury Latin (All Boys) - (West Roxbury, Mass.)

    - Founded: 1645
    - Size: 290 students on 120 acres
    - Tuition: $19,500

    ** Ivy League Pipeline Since 2004:
    - Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton: 56

    Famous Alumni: Yale University founder James Pierpont.


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