Glenalmond College

One of Scotland’s leading senior boarding schools, Glenalmond College has both a traditional and progressive energy about it that we found thoroughly invigorating. The gloriously rural setting – a 300-acre estate in Perthshire – means all kinds of outdoorsy activities ripe for muddy-boot fun that would surely make the school's founder William Gladstone proud.   Glenalmond is surrounded by lochs and mountains in the middle of the Scottish countryside. A long drive through parkland leads to the front of the original building and a first glimpse of pupils: girls in di...