W High School vs St. John’s College High School for academics?

[Anonymous]

How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.

[Anonymous]

SJC had 1,700 applications for 300 seats this year (150 for girls, 150 for boys).

Good luck getting in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.

Not in the same league

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.

Too subjective.

[Anonymous]

W is much stronger

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.

Says who? Private schools do a lot of gate keeping so not everyone is allowed in those classes unless your kid has shown A work in the previous level course (or gotten high test scores on the HSPT). Even if your kid got an A in algebra I/geometry in MS, they would need to pass a placement test to test out of those classes.

[Anonymous]

You could look at average SAT and ACT scores for the schools you are considering. Niche appears to have that info.

[Anonymous]

College counselor here. I work with a number of W students every year as well as at least one SJC student each year. Their (unhooked, non-athletic recruit) college results are comparable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.

My kid went to SJCHS his freshman year, and back to MCPS after that. Without a doubt, the W schools are far more rigorous. My freshman son, good at math, but no magnet student, placed into a senior math class at St Johns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College counselor here. I work with a number of W students every year as well as at least one SJC student each year. Their (unhooked, non-athletic recruit) college results are comparable.

Your cohort is biased.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College counselor here. I work with a number of W students every year as well as at least one SJC student each year. Their (unhooked, non-athletic recruit) college results are comparable.

Your cohort is biased.

How so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.

My kid went to SJCHS his freshman year, and back to MCPS after that. Without a doubt, the W schools are far more rigorous. My freshman son, good at math, but no magnet student, placed into a senior math class at St Johns.

Senior math? Which class exactly is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.

My kid went to SJCHS his freshman year, and back to MCPS after that. Without a doubt, the W schools are far more rigorous. My freshman son, good at math, but no magnet student, placed into a senior math class at St Johns.

Senior math? Which class exactly is that?

It was an advanced algebra class. My son took geometry at TPMS in 8th grade. He evidently was only incoming ninth grader at SJCHS who had taken geometry. The head of the math department called me at work, excited about his test results. She thought they might need to send him to Catholic University for his upper class math since he was so far ahead. My son was helping upperclass students in his math class at St. Johns. St. Johns was at least one year behind MCPS with math. He went to Blair for sophomore to senior years, where he did well in math, but he was not at magnet level.

One thing to ask at St. Johns is how many teachers there are certified teachers. It's not always the case that they are. The Catholic schools pay less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SJC had 1,700 applications for 300 seats this year (150 for girls, 150 for boys).

Good luck getting in.

Good lord! That's incredible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SJC had 1,700 applications for 300 seats this year (150 for girls, 150 for boys).

Good luck getting in.

Good lord! That's incredible.

Good athletes always get in.