St. Albans acceptance rate = 25 to 30%?
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Anonymous
| Boys at STA may be happy with one aspect, but not happy with another. Also, people are not always forthcoming and don't like to admit child is not happy or struggling. They don't want friends and family to suggest maybe child would be happier elsewhere. |
Anonymous
Is your point that pp is just wrong? No one is actually happy? Every boy should move? Because I’m pretty sure there’s room for the possibility that, at sta, some boys are quite happy. Some are quite unhappy. Some are in the middle. Unless no boy is happy, you’re just calling people liars. |
Anonymous
If you’re not a student or a counselor, how would you even know? Did you poll the boys to see if their experienced lined up with what their parent told you? I’m sure there’s a mix. Shocking. |
Anonymous
| Shocking is paying $50k for a school your child is struggling in, especially if you have to pay for tutors in addition to tuition. |
Anonymous
Calm down, crazy lady. No one said all boys are unhappy. PP knows of boys who are unhappy with one aspect or another. Geez, get a grip. |
Anonymous
You ARE pp. so annoying when people have to pretend to be someone else to defend themselves. |
Anonymous
| It's only logical that some STA boys are unhappy and many people have expressed this on DCUM and in other settings. Whether it's the pressure, the academics, the athletics, the social issues, being there for their parents and not for themselves, or the fact that they have been in the same Close environment their whole lives and are over it. Whatever the reason, there are boys who are unhappy or dissatisfied with their experience. Not sure why the STA booster so unwilling to understand this reality, but it's true. |
Anonymous
teenage boys unhappy at school. what a revelation. |
Anonymous
OP: Lots of prior threads on this, but trying to answer your question: If you are wanting best chance for Admit: get into Beauvoir Pre-K/ K and then apply from there ( your DC still has to be a good student and you cant be a wack job PITA parent ) After that window, applying for 4th-6th is next best chance. Still they might only take 10-15 out of hundreds of applicants . It would help if your DC was child of an alum or nephew of one 9th grade or higher: extremely hard |
Anonymous
Honestly, they don't need to and they don't bother |
Anonymous
| To answer op, last year’s acceptance rate at STA I heard from reliable sources was below 8%. They had a ton of applicants. Not sure about this year. |
Anonymous
These are amazing numbers. You do not have to be an STA parent to acknowledge that. |
Anonymous
| Everyone gets lost in lala land when staring at the top schools included on these 5 year matriculation lists. Sure the top group is outstanding (and equally good at many top DMV schools), but it's the lesser schools that 60% (majority) of students feed into. Parents always think their child will fall into the top 20% or, worst case scenario, top 40% of the class. STA hand picks smart students, but not all succeed in achieving the top 20% or even 40% of their class. Parents are often disappointed when their child is in the upper middle of the pack (with like a 3.5 for example) or bottom 60% and don't end up at a top 25 school or even a top 50 or 75 or 100 school. After paying almost $50K per year you need to make sure you are happy with your son attending all the schools on this list (and there are a lot), not just the tippy top ones. |
Anonymous
It is good -- great even, but no better or really that much different than all of the top schools in the DC area. |
Anonymous
When DS applied, had sister at NCS, STA told us flat out that is not sibling preference. It is one factor taken into account but not treated like sibling, legacy or Beauvoir which are real preferences. |