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[quote=Anonymous]Really depends on the kid and how externally-internally motivated the kid is.  The classes are very challenging and depending on the choice of classes each year, the workload can be quite daunting, depending on the efficiency and extracurricular schedules of the individual student. But the teaching overall is fantastic, the sense of community very strong, and most of the kids competing more with themselves and their own or their families expectations rather than their classmates in a direct way. Lots of studying is done in groups, with the encouragement of the faculty and helped by the school's physical set up (the forum, open campus so kids sit in coffee shops or outside to study), and quite a few assignments are cooperative. The vast majority of these kids are going to get into great colleges and be really well-prepared, and the school does all they practically can to try and decrease the pressure at school in terms of discussing college applications all the time in the fall of senior year, my DD literally did not know where many of her even closest friends had applied. They see from the class above them that 6-7 kids go to each of 10 very competitive colleges, so a friend getting into Yale doesn't mean they won't.  There is no class rank. And kids really seem to value and respect all sorts of different interests and types of achievement, whether classroom academic achievements, sports, theater, really weird hobbies, just asking weird articulate questions of visiting speakers. 
For high school, if the kid is admitted, at that point via testing and prior academic record the school can be pretty certain the kid can keep up and succeed with the academic side of things.  Compared to direct family/extended family experience with the other schools of a similar academic level (Sidwell, St Albans, Maret)  really no different in terms of competition.

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