So was it your choice to go to Summit?
My dad threatened to kick me out if I didn't get involved with some school, and due to certain events in my past, I was supremely ill-equipped for education in a less specialized setting. An administrator at the previous school I was enrolled in recommended it along with a handful of other places.
Do you think it turned out well for you?
Others?
When did you get out?
.... and thanks for answering these questions.
Summit was a mixed experience for me. On one hand, I acquired social and academic skills that I had never had the chance to obtain in the decade prior - made a few close friends, too.
On the other hand, no matter how good Summit is compared to other residential programs...
it's still a grimy-ass, second-rate boarding school packed to the gills with (severely) pathological kids. With a select few exceptions, most of the other students were downright undesirable to be around due to the ways in which their own issues manifested. In addition, as someone who identifies as transgendered, I knew I couldn't safely express my gender identity in a place filled with ignorance and idiocy. The stresses of daily life at Summit started taking a heavy physical and emotional toll on me, so I eventually decided to stop beating the idiomatic dead horse and leave.
I've seen Summit's program transform substance-addled layabouts into straight-laced model students, and the severely mentally disabled into productive members of society...
as well as vice versa. The vagaries of peer influence, staff influence, and structure can oftentimes make or break a student there.
I left in late February, but remained officially enrolled until early April.