Founded in 1890, Choate Rosemary Hall is a private coed boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut, that enrolls students in grades 9–12. Choate also offers a post-graduate year.

What really sets Choate apart is its extensive menu of course offerings—students can choose from more than 300 classes. Within that framework, students can also focus on programs unique to Choate, like the interdisciplinary Environmental Immersion program, the Modern Standard Arabic program, or the arts program. Students work with their advisers on a capstone project within a concentration—a rated course of study culminating in the final term of the senior year.

Choate is fortunate to be able to cover 100% of costs for students with demonstrated financial need.

•Percentage of students who board: 77%

•Tuition, room, and board: $53,100

•Percentage of students who receive some form of financial aid: 30%

•Notable alumni: novelist John Dos Passos, publisher James Laughlin, President John F. Kennedy, Illinois Governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson, II, musicologist Alan Lomax, lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner, playwright Edward Albee, actors Buck Henry, Ali MacGraw, Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Jamie Lee Curtis