霍奇基斯中学

一、校园以及周边环境美不胜收，湖光山色，高尔夫球场围绕，林木郁郁葱葱，草坪如绿色地毯，小山丘此起彼伏。选越野的学生环湖锻炼，天气好的时候老师没准领着你在室外学校最美的一角上课，好不惬意啊
二、校园设施齐全而且先进，各种球馆，游泳馆，美式足球场，斯坦威钢琴房应有尽有。学校自己的农场供给有机肉食和蔬菜，对于家长来说学生吃的放心啊。食堂的美食很多，吃胖是十有八九的事，而且有两个炉灶，学生可以自己做菜，当然你的手艺要足够好，不然一片狼藉无颜面对后面长长的队伍。
三、课外活动丰富多彩，同时因为周边学校众多，校际各种交流频繁， 比如与Deerfield, Taft, Choate, Loomis, Kent, Berkshire, Millbrook等展开各种体育比赛，数学友谊赛，联谊派对等。

Hotchkiss is in the middle of no where in Connecticut, the nearest town is 20 minutes drive away. The campus is very pretty, so you could think of it as 世外桃源:) I spent my senior year of high school at Hotchkiss and had an incredible time. People in general are very close in the small community. Staff and faculties are warm and very willing to help you. Everyone knows everyone. Some classes are chill while others are challenging. As excellent as Hotchkiss is, it is a relative small school with a few hundreds of students. So there is limitation to the courses offered afterall. My feeling is that Hotchkiss had a very strong literature department the time I was there.

Hotchkiss has a diverse and super talented student body. Many people are athletes, smart students, talented artists and leaders all at the same time. As international student one could have a hard time fitting in at first, but that's the case no matter where you are. And I would say Hotchkiss makes it easier for international kids to make friends and be part of the community than other places I have been.

The only downside to Hotckiss I could think of now would be because people are excellent there, you probably will have a hard time standing out. For example, if you are at a less competitive school you can probably get better grades and assume more leadership roles than if you are at Hotchkiss.

Hotchkiss创建于1891年，最早是专门为耶鲁输送人才并教育当地的农场孩子的学校。学校拥有非常好的体育设施，校园的中心是教学和宿舍，十八洞个高尔夫球场环绕校园，校园，球场和湖融为一体，很有特色。另外，学校有自己的农场，供应学校师生的百分之五十以上的食品。
根据PrepReview的数据，该校毕业生进入长青藤 MIT 斯坦福的入学比例为25%，在寄宿学校中排名第8，其中哈；佛入学率3.23%在所有私立高中中排名第19；耶鲁入学率为2.74%，排名第18；其他学校入学率没有进入前20名。进入美国新闻周刊排名的前25名大学和前15名的文理学院的比例为48%。

整体感受：尽管对我来说适应寄宿生活很艰难，但是我现在非常喜欢！！！

校园风景非常优美，湖泊，森林，高尔夫球场，红了叶子的枫树把校园点缀的更加像是在画里，本校学生打高尔夫免费。hotchkiss的硬件设施一流，感觉比choate还好，他们的体育馆，游泳馆看起来很专业，墙上挂着男女生的游泳纪录，还有有好几个强大的校队，住宿方面，可以选择单人间或双人间，他们的宿舍也是看过的学校里最好的，我们的学生面试后，我们与招生办Charles交谈得知，他在上海生活过两年，中国学生在学校表现都很好，托福达到100分是必须的，今年也有来华的计划，对于明年的招生计划，并没有固定的人数，说只要qualified，他们就会考虑录取。