Tilton School

Emphasizes humanistic care, with a broad scope in the arts, including studio art, fine art, ceramics, photography, dance, theater, music, and film production.
It is very close to Boston. A proponent of American progressive education, its curriculum implements a module system with 7 modules per year, each lasting 5 weeks. During these 5 weeks, students only study 3 courses, enabling deeper and more thorough learning with high efficiency. The arts program is very strong, featuring a dedicated performing arts center.
It highly values social justice, focusing on issues such as gender equality, immigration, race, and poverty. It is the first private boarding high school to make social justice a compulsory course. Feminism is emphasized.

Tilton School was founded in 1845, approximately 1.5 hours' drive from Boston. It is a traditional century-old boarding school with a rich history, a student-teacher ratio of 1:6, and close student-teacher relationships. It boasts first-class educational facilities, especially its excellent sports facilities, including 22 acres of sports fields. The campus features both classical New England style architecture and very modern teaching buildings.

Tilton School is located in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, with various restaurants, shopping centers, and transportation hubs nearby. It is a century-old traditional boarding school with first-class teaching facilities, featuring both classical New England style architecture and very modern academic buildings. The average SAT score is 1200.

School Features
1) Advanced sports facilities with rich and outstanding programs: It has 22 acres of sports fields, including tennis courts, gymnasiums, ice rinks, softball fields, baseball fields, and soccer fields; offers more than a dozen different types of sports; basketball, softball, golf, soccer, etc., have all won New England championships.
2) College Placement Guidance Program: Aims to help students gain admission to the universities best suited for them. This program starts in 9th grade, beginning with group activities and gradually escalating to one-on-one personalized counseling.
3) College Writing and Communication Skills: This is an independent, essential teaching program, with classes held four times a week. The student-to-teacher ratio is 2:1, focusing on the main key points of the SAT Reading and Writing sections.
4) Offers 15 AP courses, 19 honors courses, and art courses such as art studio, graphic design, ceramics, photography, dance, filmmaking, music, and theater performance for students to choose from, meeting the diverse needs of the school.
5) From 2018-2020, Chinese graduates were accepted into institutions such as Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bentley University, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, University of California, Irvine, Boston College, University of California, Davis, Northeastern University, University of Washington, Seattle, and others.

As a student graduating next year, I want to say that sometimes the school is really disappointing. It feels like the school is just a commercial organization that fundamentally puts money first. They are even unwilling to spend money to install a few more access control systems for convenience, making students take a detour, claiming it's too expensive. Yet, international students' tuition is so expensive.
Furthermore, with online classes this year, students didn't live for all four quarters, but the school isn't refunding meal plan fees, dorm fees, or anything like that. This feels really absurd. I completely understand and have no problem with tuition not being refunded, but I can't understand the meal plan and dorm fees.
On the contrary, the school constantly asks international students' parents for donations. I really don't know why. Where does all the money go??? Moreover, the proportion of international students is gradually increasing each year, so I advise everyone to think carefully before coming here. I am also preparing to transfer.