NCS impressions

[Anonymous]

Impressions/Facts on NCS? (No rumors, please!)

[Anonymous]

Still want to beat the dead horse?

[Anonymous]

Here we go. Pass the popcorn. Let's get this thunderdome started...

[Anonymous]

Beautiful campus.

[Anonymous]

We only have experience with the lower school and our daughter has been very happy there. Teachers have been great and kind and really get to know each girl. Our daughter has made some lovely friends - sweet smart girls that are very supportive of each other. Academically we have also been impressed. Most teachers have been superb and although the girls are challenged, my daughter has not been overwhelmed but she has leaned so much - we have been impressed.

[Anonymous]

I think Hearst is one of the most beautiful buildings in Washington. I know many girls who wouldn't repeat the experience. The school seems to decide which students they support over others for colleges. I think STA does the same.

[Anonymous]

That sounds awful

[Anonymous]

Most of the seniors this year are pretty happy with their college choices. I think 18:54 is just perpetuating an unsubstantiated rumor.

[Anonymous]

I hear the 11th grade do a mean Groucho Marx

[Anonymous]

We love it! Sweet girls, lovely families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We love it! Sweet girls, lovely families.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear the 11th grade do a mean Groucho Marx

What does that mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We love it! Sweet girls, lovely families.

+1

+100

[Anonymous]

Supporting girls who are +2200 on the SATs with strong legacies is hardly difficult and it's true that NCS tends to mishandle other students trying to fit them into any number of easily available small liberal arts college slots. While we were there the staff sent out a number of newsletters regarding exploratory trips they had taken to tour colleges that no NCS grad. had ever attended and were extremely unlikely to to in the future. They have a slightly strange process by which teachers do not author the letters of recommendation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Supporting girls who are +2200 on the SATs with strong legacies is hardly difficult and it's true that NCS tends to mishandle other students trying to fit them into any number of easily available small liberal arts college slots. While we were there the staff sent out a number of newsletters regarding exploratory trips they had taken to tour colleges that no NCS grad. had ever attended and were extremely unlikely to to in the future. They have a slightly strange process by which teachers do not author the letters of recommendation.

Um this isn't accurate, at least the teacher rec letter part... I don't think NCS mishandles the non 2200+ legacy kids either, they are just realistic about what colleges kids can get into and what they can't. It was good for my daughter to be told UVA realistically wasn't going to be an option even though she was a hardworking kid with good grades and scores. They took time to make her think about other fits what would be better and more realistic given her portfolio. She is very happy at another top school.