Are there any feeder schools for Holton?

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Anonymous wrote:How many slots are normally opened in the 9th grade?

TIA

I would also like to know.

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It really depends on how many kids leave after middle shool. Some kids go public, some to boarding schools, some move. My DD's class was the biggest to graduate (88). I hear they are going to have larger high school classes and smaller numbers admitted in the early years.

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meant 88 above...don't know where that face came from

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The quality--and the caliber/difficulty of academics--of students at all private schools has gone down, and almost all of the schools are 20-70 allowed students, under their special exceptions, etc. as permitted from/by the counties/DC. They are looking for students, so getting in is jot as hard as it once was--nor is staying in. The curriculum has been dumbed down at most as a result. Most of the schools don't let you see what grades/scores their students get on AP standardized testing--a usual indicator that they don't want you to know that a 2 is the typical score for students who took their schools AP class, and amazingly got an A...ASK to see the scores, if you are looking for a rigorous school, and if they refuse to show any, or only partial class results (the top scorers) or don't show ALL AP classes, or if they have actually stopped requiring students who take AP classes to even take the APs--that tells you a LOT about the dumbing down... It is no surprise that so many colleges won't give credit to incoming students with straight A's in AP classes...so many are bogus.

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Anonymous wrote:The quality--and the caliber/difficulty of academics--of students at all private schools has gone down, and almost all of the schools are 20-70 allowed students, under their special exceptions, etc. as permitted from/by the counties/DC. They are looking for students, so getting in is jot as hard as it once was--nor is staying in. The curriculum has been dumbed down at most as a result. Most of the schools don't let you see what grades/scores their students get on AP standardized testing--a usual indicator that they don't want you to know that a 2 is the typical score for students who took their schools AP class, and amazingly got an A...ASK to see the scores, if you are looking for a rigorous school, and if they refuse to show any, or only partial class results (the top scorers) or don't show ALL AP classes, or if they have actually stopped requiring students who take AP classes to even take the APs--that tells you a LOT about the dumbing down... It is no surprise that so many colleges won't give credit to incoming students with straight A's in AP classes...so many are bogus.

Questions: This is happening at "all private schools"? and what is "20-70"?

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Anonymous wrote:The quality--and the caliber/difficulty of academics--of students at all private schools has gone down, and almost all of the schools are 20-70 allowed students, under their special exceptions, etc. as permitted from/by the counties/DC. They are looking for students, so getting in is jot as hard as it once was--nor is staying in. The curriculum has been dumbed down at most as a result. Most of the schools don't let you see what grades/scores their students get on AP standardized testing--a usual indicator that they don't want you to know that a 2 is the typical score for students who took their schools AP class, and amazingly got an A...ASK to see the scores, if you are looking for a rigorous school, and if they refuse to show any, or only partial class results (the top scorers) or don't show ALL AP classes, or if they have actually stopped requiring students who take AP classes to even take the APs--that tells you a LOT about the dumbing down... It is no surprise that so many colleges won't give credit to incoming students with straight A's in AP classes...so many are bogus.

This is not true. Many schools will give you the results of scores for the AP exam most schools tell you the percentage of students who pass with a 3 or a 4 or a 5. the best indicator is how well students are doing in college and many students leave the rigorous privates saying freshman year was a breeze even at the top schools! So, I disagree with this poster and with so much attention on education and testing, parents are running to private schools which is making admission harder not easier.

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Is WES a feeder school for Holton?

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Not really, there are kids who attend after leaving WES, but is is not a feeder school.

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I always heard PDS was a feeder for Holton... still true?

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yes

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what schools most of the Holton girls usually come from? Thanks.

The President's office at the IMF - oh, wait, - Holton wants you to think your future Holton daughter will attain that IMF post- based on a French post-high school exchange student's single year at Holton. Holton bought a full-page ad in the Washington Post last June, proclaiming the exchange student as a member of the "Class of 1974", although the exchange student was not in the 1974 Senior Section of the Holton yearbook. Send your daughter to France for elementary and secondary education, and then a year at Holton. That should do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what schools most of the Holton girls usually come from? Thanks.

The President's office at the IMF - oh, wait, - Holton wants you to think your future Holton daughter will attain that IMF post- based on a French post-high school exchange student's single year at Holton. Holton bought a full-page ad in the Washington Post last June, proclaiming the exchange student as a member of the "Class of 1974", although the exchange student was not in the 1974 Senior Section of the Holton yearbook. Send your daughter to France for elementary and secondary education, and then a year at Holton. That should do it.

What's with this weirdo obsession with Christine LaGarde? Holton's been a good school for years and is now probably as strong as it has ever been as an academic institution, comparing very favorably with Sidwell, NCS, STA, GDS, etc, and far outstripping its brother school in rigor and results. Nobody else cares about your Lagarde issues, PP -- face it.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what schools most of the Holton girls usually come from? Thanks.

The President's office at the IMF - oh, wait, - Holton wants you to think your future Holton daughter will attain that IMF post- based on a French post-high school exchange student's single year at Holton. Holton bought a full-page ad in the Washington Post last June, proclaiming the exchange student as a member of the "Class of 1974", although the exchange student was not in the 1974 Senior Section of the Holton yearbook. Send your daughter to France for elementary and secondary education, and then a year at Holton. That should do it.

She was in the 1974 yearbook, just like every other senior that year. I'm holding the yearbook in my hand.

Busted!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what schools most of the Holton girls usually come from? Thanks.

The President's office at the IMF - oh, wait, - Holton wants you to think your future Holton daughter will attain that IMF post- based on a French post-high school exchange student's single year at Holton. Holton bought a full-page ad in the Washington Post last June, proclaiming the exchange student as a member of the "Class of 1974", although the exchange student was not in the 1974 Senior Section of the Holton yearbook. Send your daughter to France for elementary and secondary education, and then a year at Holton. That should do it.

She was in the 1974 yearbook, just like every other senior that year. I'm holding the yearbook in my hand.

Busted!

Not in the graduating Senior section, she wasn't.

Busted back!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what schools most of the Holton girls usually come from? Thanks.

The President's office at the IMF - oh, wait, - Holton wants you to think your future Holton daughter will attain that IMF post- based on a French post-high school exchange student's single year at Holton. Holton bought a full-page ad in the Washington Post last June, proclaiming the exchange student as a member of the "Class of 1974", although the exchange student was not in the 1974 Senior Section of the Holton yearbook. Send your daughter to France for elementary and secondary education, and then a year at Holton. That should do it.

She was in the 1974 yearbook, just like every other senior that year. I'm holding the yearbook in my hand.

Busted!

Not in the graduating Senior section, she wasn't.

Busted back!

You're wrong. She was. Are you looking at it? I am. What is your problem?