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Chilton Preparatory School is a location on WB drama Gilmore Girls. It is situated in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Chilton is a co-educational prep school catering for students from kindergarten to senior level that Rory attends from Season 1 through Season 3. It is located in Hartford and is a prestigious school to attend, Rory gaining attendance there in her sophomore year. Its school colors are blue and white (silver), and the students attending Chilton are required to wear a uniform. For girls, the uniform consists of blue and white kilt, blue blouse, navy blue tie and any combination of a sweater vest (blue or gray), sweater (blue) and blue blazer. Boys attending Chilton wear pale khaki pants, blue dress shirt and ties, and a blue blazer.

Chilton is highly competitive, and, as Headmaster Charleston once put it, while failure is a part of life, it is not a part of Chilton. Most students attending Chilton end up at an Ivy league school.

The Chilton parents are expected to be highly involved in activities at Chilton, participating in things such as bake sales and fund-raising, through associations such as the Booster club. These clubs also have faculty representation.

Notable characters to arise from Chilton include Paris' friends Madeline Lynn and Louise Grant who both attended for a long time, and played active roles in The Franklin and Student Government, but were often too preoccupied with boys to study. Tristan Dugray was the main love interest at Chilton, but was expelled during his Junior year after a number of indiscretions.

Max Medina, Rory's English Lit teacher played a major role in both her success at Chilton and as one of Lorelai Gilmore's fiance's whom she met at a parent teacher day at Chilton.

The Franklin

It has a student paper, The Franklin, of which both Paris Geller and Rory Gilmore write for during their time at Chilton. Paris was the editor in her Junior year, when Rory was on the staff.

Student Council

The Student council is made up of a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, as well as student class presidents from the Senior, Junior and Sophomore levels. In their Senior year, Paris was the Student Body President and Rory was the Vice-President, leading to reformations in regards to the Library and Hem Lines.

Trivia

  • Rory also hosts a student from Chilton in her sophomore year at Yale.
  • The marble floors in the lobby walked on by Harriet Beecher Stowe.[1]
  • Robert Frost donated the main staircase's banisters.[1]
  • Thomas Edison ceremonially lit a sconce.[1]
  • The school was opened on 1803, since it celebrated its bicentennial Rory's senior year.
  • It can be assumed that tuition at the school is less than $25,000 per year, as Lorelai's $75,000 check paid her parents back in full, and in later episodes Lorelai and Rory mentioned there was some money left over to help pay for Yale.
  • Tuition is comparable to that of a state university.[2]
  • Class sizes are small – Rory's senior class consisted of 45 students.
  • Lorelai wanted to carve her and Rory's initials into a wooden column, but Rory talked her out of it.

Notes and references

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