Getting into St. Albans

[Anonymous]

No, but he's in 8th grade so I bet he'd do pretty well on the WPSSI. Of course I'd get the prep materials to make sure he knows how to stack blocks.

From your previous posts we are well aware your son is in a private school. I'm sorry he does not belong in the 99.9 percentile club and headed for STA. From your past hyperbolic descriptions we know you would not have hesitated to announce his success and brilliance. By the way, how's your daughter?

Why didn't you son apply to STA for 4th grade? Are you trying to get in now with the incoming 9th grade class? I'm sure you are relieved the STA admissions doesn't require play dates with the parents. You wouldn't want to sabotage the chances of your only son.

[Anonymous]

From your previous posts we are well aware your son is in a private school. I'm sorry he does not belong in the 99.9 percentile club and headed for STA. From your past hyperbolic descriptions we know you would not have hesitated to announce his success and brilliance. By the way, how's your daughter?

Why didn't you son apply to STA for 4th grade? Are you trying to get in now with the incoming 9th grade class? I'm sure you are relieved the STA admissions doesn't require play dates with the parents. You wouldn't want to sabotage the chances of your only son.

Finally mortally silenced for good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The previous PP is simply wrong. Wall Street has been filled for years with the b and b from our elite colleges, universities and graduate schools. At one point, over half of the Princeton graduates went to Wall Street. These are super smart people, whether they be lawyers, investment bankers, etc, who thought they fully understood the highly complicated financial instruments they created and traded. The fact is that they did NOT understand, and their arrogance lead directly to the current economic mess. While Bush no doubt will go down as one of the worst Presidents in the last century, and while Bush's failure to support any additional regulation of the financial industry did not help, Bush did not create the financial instruments that created the problem. I say again that super smarts does not necessarily correlate with judgment and values.

Multiple choice question for PP (choose only one best answer):

Are these culprits largely products of

a. prep schools
b. public schools
c. homeschools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The previous PP is simply wrong. Wall Street has been filled for years with the b and b from our elite colleges, universities and graduate schools. At one point, over half of the Princeton graduates went to Wall Street. These are super smart people, whether they be lawyers, investment bankers, etc, who thought they fully understood the highly complicated financial instruments they created and traded. The fact is that they did NOT understand, and their arrogance lead directly to the current economic mess. While Bush no doubt will go down as one of the worst Presidents in the last century, and while Bush's failure to support any additional regulation of the financial industry did not help, Bush did not create the financial instruments that created the problem. I say again that super smarts does not necessarily correlate with judgment and values.

Multiple choice question for PP (choose only one best answer):

Are these culprits largely products of

a. prep schools
b. public schools
c. homeschools

What this PP misses is that the entire point of the comment: namely, that the obsessive focus on academic smarts as evidenced by test scores creates the intellectual arrogance that frequently causes problems. Whether they went to prep school or public school is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

And yet at the end of the day, most would want to send their boys to STA, evidenced by the fact that the Getting into St. Albans thread is 40,000 posts long, and nobody has even started a thread on how to get into TJ.

Or, are we no longer interested in data?

[Anonymous]

On a completely different note, does anyone know in which entry year are there the most openings for students (not Beauvoir alums)?

[Anonymous]

I understand why you can't bring yourself to answer the question about what types of high schools the "arrogant" destroyers of our finacial system were largely nurtured but you are quick to calim that 50% of Princetonians were investment bankers and worked on Wall Street.

I guess your club foot in mouth disease accompanies your other diagnoses.

We also know that you and your son are enamored with STA as you continue to fall on the sword for the bulldogs. How many times has STA rejected the admission applications of your 8th grade son in another private school? Is he attending a better private school? Given your genes, legacy, brains and high income why is your son a two bit flunky?

What will happen if he doesn't get his high school diploma from "this choosy and elite" school?

Your obsessive burden is a large one to hoist on the bending back of your 8 th grade son for the rest of his life.

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/opinion/21friedman.html?_r=1

Very interesting op ed by Friedman that addresses some of the points that have been discussed on this and a couple of other threads about what will make workers competitive. He indicates that creativity, imagination and interpersonal skills will be a differentiator. Obviously one needs a solid education and smarts under that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand why you can't bring yourself to answer the question about what types of high schools the "arrogant" destroyers of our finacial system were largely nurtured but you are quick to calim that 50% of Princetonians were investment bankers and worked on Wall Street.

I guess your club foot in mouth disease accompanies your other diagnoses.

We also know that you and your son are enamored with STA as you continue to fall on the sword for the bulldogs. How many times has STA rejected the admission applications of your 8th grade son in another private school? Is he attending a better private school? Given your genes, legacy, brains and high income why is your son a two bit flunky?

What will happen if he doesn't get his high school diploma from "this choosy and elite" school?

Your obsessive burden is a large one to hoist on the bending back of your 8 th grade son for the rest of his life.

You seem to be assuming that you are having on one on one dialogue. I think it is a one to many dialogue with you being the one. The above post seems to be mixing multiple other posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand why you can't bring yourself to answer the question about what types of high schools the "arrogant" destroyers of our finacial system were largely nurtured but you are quick to calim that 50% of Princetonians were investment bankers and worked on Wall Street.

I guess your club foot in mouth disease accompanies your other diagnoses.

We also know that you and your son are enamored with STA as you continue to fall on the sword for the bulldogs. How many times has STA rejected the admission applications of your 8th grade son in another private school? Is he attending a better private school? Given your genes, legacy, brains and high income why is your son a two bit flunky?

What will happen if he doesn't get his high school diploma from "this choosy and elite" school?

Your obsessive burden is a large one to hoist on the bending back of your 8 th grade son for the rest of his life.

I need to know where you went to school. I don't want my kid going anywhere where he'll start using words like "calim" with ease. Sounds sissy to me.

[Anonymous]

I need to know where you went to school. I don't want my kid going anywhere where he'll start using words like "calim" with ease. Sounds sissy to me.

I admit I am a sissy. I did not go to one of those fancy D.C. area prep schools with all that fine education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Ok, DCUMs . . . if you had the choice, would you rather have your son be a TJ or STA graduate. Be honest.

I rest my case.

For the 21st century, unequivocally, TJ -- hands down.

I think even in this century, the old adage about "it's not what you know, it's who you know" trumps all. STA will provide those connections. TJ will not.

[Anonymous]

I think even in this century, the old adage about "it's not what you know, it's who you know" trumps all. STA will provide those connections. TJ will not.

Quite right. For the education of my children I prefer a foundation based on what they know...and not who they know. We'll take our chances with this approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I think even in this century, the old adage about "it's not what you know, it's who you know" trumps all. STA will provide those connections. TJ will not.

Quite right. For the education of my children I prefer a foundation based on what they know...and not who they know. We'll take our chances with this approach.

Same here. STA connections are drying up & dying out.

[Anonymous]

Connections are indeed important in life but I don't think middle and high school connections are necessarily the important ones. College maybe. Graduate school more likely. Professional connections definitely.