Uniform or No Uniform?

I can assure you that most normal High School students would prefer not to wear a uniform to school. But what are the advantages of wearing a uniform?
Well, good things about having to wear a uniform are:
*not having the stress to choose what to wear in the morning
*no problems caused at school because one girl has something nicer than the other one
*wearing something appropriate
Here in Venezuela most Venezuelan schools use uniforms, not only because they are Cristian schools, but because they believe in a equal society. Which means, maybe there is a girl that can't really afford brand cloths, but her best friend wear brand cloths. In other words, if all girls wear the same cloths, no problems of jealousy or hatred will be caused. Apart from all the pros of wearing a uniform there are always some disadvantages to everything.
Some bad things of having to wear a uniform in your teenage years are:
*not having the chance of expressing your personality with your stile
*trying to break the rules and changing the uniform.
For example I would like to use another shirt that isn't my uniform shirt, but I like it because I don't have to stress out every morning thinking about what I'm going to wear to school.

VH Imissyou

I will be interviewing my best friend that left to Costa Rica, I will be asking her different questions about her school compared to ECA.
Tell me about your new school, what are the differences of ECA and your new school in Costa Rica?
The differences of ECA and Lincoln School, are that at my new school, there aren't that many international students compared to ECA. Another difference is that in Lincoln there aren't that many opportunities of sports, or arts. There are about 100 students in each grade, and at ECA there are only about 45 students.
How are the teachers at you new school?
Teachers at Lincoln are divided per grade, meaning they don't teach more than one grade. Most of them are Costarican, or American. Compared to ECA, the relationship between students and teachers is less casual, caused by the amount of students at Lincoln.
How many classes are you taking? Are they easier or harder at ECA?
I'm taking 8 classes, Social Studies, English, Spanish, Math, Science, PE, French, Art, and Music. I meet my classes everyday, which makes it harder than ECA.
What are both schools strengths?
The strength at Lincoln, is that the academic is much more strict, and at ECA is also good academically, but at ECA you are given much more opportunities in other things than in Lincoln.

Different Perspective

Going to visit the schools I'm applying to, definitely changed my opinion, and point of view. My first choice now was my last choice before. All the schools had different things, that made them extremely unique from each one. For example, Choate Rosemary Hall has a really amazing dinning hall, and the dormitories are really big. Apart from being an amazing school, I know about 10 students that go there and they LOVE it. Its far less daunting to be new at a school when you know at least someone there.The next school I visited was Northfield Mount Hermon. I wasn't expecting a lot from this school, but deffenitly I was proven wrong. I was astonished by this schools, amazing therter, and concert hall. After visiting this school I past by Deerfield Academty. We didn't have a formal tour but a friend that attends there showed us around. The campus  was huge, and beautiful. But it's definitely one of the hardest schools I'm applying to. The next day we visited Middlesex. Middlesex, was a very small school (compared to Deerfield) it was much more cozy, and our tour guide was really nice. At this school I was asked to write an essay which made me nervous. After going to Middlesex, we went to St. Mark's. At St. Mark's I got interviewed by a Venezuelan admission team member. She was very nice, and will help me get in. St. Mark's was my least favorite of them all. After that we visited Lawrenceville, AMAZING. There are no words to describe it, it is definitely my first choice of all of them. the dormitories are so big, and the people were very nice. I really hope that I get into more that one so I'll have the chance to make a choice.