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I have been accepted to both Payton High School and Phillips Academy at Exeter. These are both great High Schools and I can learn a lot at both of them. Exeter is a boarding school in New Hampshire which is one of the top high schools in the nation and is well known for teaching all of it’s classes the the Harkness method in which every student discusses the topic around one table. Payton is a selective enrollment school in Chicago and is in the top ten public high schools in the United States. Both of these schools are good choices for High School but I need to chose one over the other.

Exeter has many benefits and few drawbacks. The subjects in Exeter are all taught through the discussion based Harkness Method, which is a way of teaching that has worked well for me in the past, but with each class focusing on specific points of the method. In math class the teachers give the students one problem at a time and work through the problem, finding different …show more content…

Payton is close to my neighborhood and only fifteen minutes away. Being in a familiar area also helps Payton’s case because the area is navigable and has places that you know, that you can eat at or work on your homework at. Payton is a public school so it is free, this has both an upside and a downside however. The upside of Payton being free is that money that would otherwise go towards high school can be spent saving for college or paying for things that are needed at the house. The downside of Payton’s free education however is that some of the equipment might be old and worn down and that if funding is cut some classes and activities may no longer be available. At Payton only one class each year is an elective while all other classes are mandatory. I also know people who currently go to Payton and this helps because they can guide me through settling down in Payton. Overall I am leaning more towards payton than I am towards

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