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菲利浦斯埃克斯特学术高中是全美最著名的私立高中之一，我们将该校的愿景宣言和招生时推荐的“成功的申请者模型”分享给大家, 以供参考
愿景宣言
菲利浦斯埃克斯特学术高中办学的愿景在两个世纪前就由其创始人约翰菲利普斯阐明：“我们希望教师把对年轻人心智和道德的塑造放在首位。没有知识的良知是虚弱无力的，然而，缺乏良知的知识是危险的。 两者的结合能铸就高尚的品格，并奠定造福人类福祉最坚实的基石。”
埃克斯特今天继续专注于知识和良知的结合。她寻求有优异学习能力，有强烈求知欲，并不懈追求完善个人品质的学生。在埃克斯特，深入地探究，思想火花的碰撞，构成了心智激荡的环境；课上的学习，指导和课外的各种活动，倡导适宜和健康的氛围；居住在一起的社区环境和互动熏陶出诚信，同理心和善良的品质。在埃克斯特的学习和成长有赖于每个人的参与和与他人的互动，丰富多彩的教育需要各个方面的多样性；我们的老师和学生都非常珍惜这个集体的多样性。
埃克斯特的学生在学校所面对的挑战和所获得的支持都是为了培养和塑造具有独立品格的人，同时又是优秀的社会成员。我们为社会输送具有创造性思考和独立思考的年轻人。他们这种品质让他们关注他人和我们生活的世界，充满激情地，持续不断地探索，追寻和学习，并不断超越自我。
-1991年
成功申请菲利普斯埃克斯特学术高中的学生“模型”
以下罗列的特点，是成功的申请者常常具备的：
● 强烈的求知欲和对学术挑战的渴望
● 优异的学业成绩, 成绩单里更多的A而不是B
● 强烈的个性特征
● 喜欢生活在一个多样性的团体里
● 愿意参与对话同时也愿意成为一个积极的聆听者
● 欢迎成人的陪同
● 在小组里面是一个积极配合的成员
● 有自律的学习习惯、组织能力和时间管理技能
● 热爱阅读和写作
● 数学方面的能力很强
● 学习一门经典语言或现代语言（如果所读学校有这条件的话）
● 在学校里或是在团体里，积极参与课外活动
Academy Mission Statement
The founder of Phillips Exeter Academy defined its mission more than two centuries ago. "Above all," John Phillips stated, "it is expected that the attention of instructors to the disposition of the minds and morals of the youth under their charge will exceed every other care; well considering that though goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous, and that both united form the noblest character, and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind."
Exeter today continues the commitment to unite knowledge and goodness. It seeks students who combine proven academic ability, intellectual curiosity, and tenacity with decency and good character. At the Academy, exacting inquiry and thoughtful discourse foster the life of the mind, instruction and activity promote fitness and health, and the daily interactions of a residential school nurture integrity, empathy, and kindness. Because learning and growth at Exeter arise from each individual's engagement with others, the richness of education here requires diversity in all its dimensions; students and faculty value the differences they bring to the community they share.
The challenges that students meet at Exeter and the support they receive have a common purpose: to stimulate their development as individuals and as members of society. Exeter seeks to graduate young people whose creativity and independence of thought sustain their continuing inquiry and reflection, whose interest in others and the world around them surpasses their self-concern, and whose passion for learning impels them beyond what they already know.
- 1991.
Phillips Exeter Academy
The successful applicant will have many of the following characteristics:
● Intellectual curiosity and desire for academic rigor
● Proven academic success with grades of more A's than B's
● Strong character
● Embrace living in a diverse community
● Willingness to engage in conversation as well as being an active listener
● Welcomes the company of adults
● Cooperative team member in group settings
● Self-disciplined study habits along with organizational abilities and time management skills
● Love of reading and writing
● Strong ability in mathematics
● Studying a classical or modern language (if available at current school)
● Involvement in and commitment to extracurricular activities at school or in your community