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[quote=Anonymous]Anywhere. What you need to understand is that a lot of the work at Banneker is about forming solid study habits. It’s annotating the book, making the notecards, making the study guide, outlining the essay, and turning it in for a grade. For kids who are sufficiently intelligent or talented or who have sufficient background knowledge, those steps might not strictly speaking be necessary to get an A on the high school essay or exam, but because of how grading works at Banneker they are necessary to maintaining As in high school. So in college, when the kid already has the study habits but now has fewer hours of class and more freedom to choose where to allocate their efforts, it’s probably going to feel like less work.

(And fwiw, I also think the intensity of Banneker helps kids learn their own limits. My Banneker kid has friends who have gone Ivy/MIT, and their stats are just as good, but for themselves they said “no, I did small and intense for high school, I am not doing it again for college.”)[/quote]

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