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A lot of adult people thinking about sending children to some kind of to get quality education are very often biased against this kind of educational facilities; especially if they have not yet done any real boarding school research. The same is true for high schools students, too. As it was discovered by corresponding polling and surveys, the majority of people do have a definite preconception of what is like. The foundation of such preconception has been predominantly created by books like “Catcher in the Rye” or “A Separate Peace” that you might have read, or probably you might have got a prejudice against through watching such movies as “Dead Poets’ Society” or “School Ties”. Those are fine books and movies, really, there is no arguing about it – but the they depict have little in common with modern facilities of this kind.

The storylines of those books and movies that we have mentioned above are quite entertaining, but the events depicted in them take place at old-time and therefore the picture a reader (or a viewer) gets is old-fashioned, its totally out-of-time! The settings of a present-day are very much different from the one you get through those stories. We have composed a short, but, as we believe, quite comprehensive list to summarize the most obvious differences, so a person interested in the subject can differentiate between myths originated by fictional boarding schools and realities of the modern facilities. The overall evolution that dramatically transformed the environments of universities and colleges of USA during several past decades, have touched upon the too. The perception of a boarding school in public eye is gradually changing for the better, still old lingering myths die too slowly, so be careful not to make a mistake regarding the decision of taking a boarding or whether you would fit in it or not.

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