Thread: Best of the Best

You are right Mainer. One must be extremely objective in reading it. There were times when I felt the author completely misinterpreted what a student said, or missed what could have been sarcasm on the part of the student. One of the most quoted parts of this book is when a student asks if he would send his daughter there and when he hesitates, another students says, "Why, because you love her?" which is an appeal to emotion...

Just read a few pages from google books. If it is indeed a real school, there are 3 hints I found: 1. founded over a century ago; 2. one of the "most prestigious" elite boarding schools in NE; 3. students admitted from hundreds of applicants. The author also mentioned he was once an admission officer of a "smaller" boarding school, indicating "Weston" is not so small. It seems to me that...

I just finished reading "The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School" by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández. Does anyone know what boarding school was researched in the book?

From his bio at Harvard School of Ed, where he teaches, seems he went to public school, but then taught guitar at Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts - here it is: "Unlike mythical northeasterners such as Garp or Holden Caulfield, the actual Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández grew up in Latin America, in Puerto Rico. “I attended a public school,” he says, “but one that is considered ‘elite',...

It's Exeter. I promise. Definitely Exeter-- I know people who knew him there and in the actual dissertation, he disguises it much less well. Even in the book, the two dining halls, the seating in both the cafeterias and the auditorium, everything correlates.

Keep in mind that a book like this reveals at least as much about the author as it does about his subject - and, in this case, perhaps even more about the author.

hi, im Valentina from Venezuela and currenntly studying first year of psicology so i was wordering if some of you can post some of the best books that i will use... thank you and sorry for my really bad english...