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Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy was founded in 1781 by John Phillips, whose brother Samuel had founded Phillips Academy Andover just three years earlier, making the two schools sibling institutions with a friendly rivalry that has persisted for over two centuries. The school is closely identified with the "Harkness method," a discussion-based teaching approach built around oval tables that seat around a dozen students and a teacher as equals, funded by a 1930 gift from oil magnate Edward Harkness specifically to support this style of instruction rather than traditional lecture-based teaching. Exeter's notable alumni span an unusually wide range of fields, including author Dan Brown, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (who briefly attended before transferring), and numerous U.S. senators and Pulitzer Prize winners, reflecting the school's long-standing reputation as a pipeline to elite universities and prominent careers. Phillips Exeter Academy's combination of its historic Harkness discussion-based teaching method and its centuries-long track record producing prominent alumni has made it one of the most academically respected boarding schools in the country.
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The Lawrenceville School
The Lawrenceville School was founded in 1810 and is known distinctively for its "House System," a residential structure grouping students into smaller communities of roughly a dozen students living with a faculty family, designed to create a more intimate, family-like environment than a typical large boarding school dormitory. The school's Harkness-style round-table teaching approach, similar to peer institutions like Exeter, emphasizes small discussion-based classes over lecture formats, reflecting a broader shared philosophy among elite Northeastern boarding schools about how students learn most effectively. Lawrenceville's roughly 700-acre campus, designed in part by the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm (sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park), gave the school a distinctive, carefully planned physical environment uncommon even among peer boarding schools. The Lawrenceville School's combination of its distinctive House System residential model and its Olmsted-designed campus has made it one of the most architecturally and communally distinctive boarding schools in the country.
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