Some might wonder why anyone would even begin to want to leave home for something like high school. Why would you leave your home, your friends, your family? This is indeed a good question, which I will answer in this essay. The most important reason I want to go to a boarding school is for the arts. Don't get me wrong; I love my school. It's a school that attracts the arts, of course, and has some emphasis on them, but I want to go somewhere where the whole school focuses on what I love to do most: performing on stage . At GCHS, 70% of the students I met are only interested in sports. It's hard to feel passionate about something you love when everyone else is dismissing it for "important" things. Of course, the administration isn't like that, but the students are, and it's a little disconcerting. It's not that I can't overcome this: of course I can. But I love theater. It's pretty much my life, and at the boarding school I most want to go to – Walnut Hill School for the Arts – it's the life of a quarter of the students. (Those who don't focus on music, visual arts, or dance.) School has, well, school, but the goal is to make you a better performer, actor, and singer. According to their website, theater-focused students take 3 hours of theater, 3 hours of musical theater, 2.5 hours of "movement for actors" (also known as dance involved in musicals), and 3 production and design hours – one week.1 Walnut Hill's long roster of teachers are experts in musicals, plays, and training great actors, and most of their students are there because "They love their job, not because their parents - or the law - force them to, so "It would probably be easier for me to focus on honing my talent rather than worrying about whether the other... middle of paper... my Christian," I should explain. The educated and intelligent students at the boarding school will not only believe in my faith, they will want me to explain it. If I went to a boarding school, I would have greater pressure to learn more about how to defend my faith and justify one's ideas. Basically, at boarding school I would be exposed to more religions and ideas, which would force me to abandon or strengthen my faith, and I certainly wouldn't choose the former. In conclusion, I believe, after much thought and care, deliberation - that going to boarding school would benefit me, my education, my social life and my future in many different ways. With your permission, I would like to apply to several arts boarding schools, including my favorite, Walnut Hill, for the 2014-2015 school year. I hope I have informed you sufficiently about my reasoning through this essay..