Amazing school. The faculty are phenomenal, the class sizes are small and intimate with a lot of focused attention on each student. Waring is not a typical "prep" school in any way, even though Waring students still go to the best colleges around. Students don't raise hands, teachers are on a first-name basis, class discussions are college level, etc. Not many schools send the entire school and its faculty (together) on a camping trip to start the year, or an entire grade to Europe (together). My favorite part of Waring, besides the teachers, is 'Endterm'. This is a 3-week term when students do activities in small, mixed aged groups. Waring was doing this long before the new project-based learning wave was en vogue. read more