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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an NCS alumna and in touch with some of my StA alumni peers. Some from my cohort ended up sending their children to the Cathedral schools.

Both NCS and StA can be great for the right kid. The right kid is achievement oriented, self-motivated, and naturally competitive (without taking the competition overboard). Being organized and/or having a parent who helps with organization helps a lot too. A lot of us alumni talk about having felt on the outside socially. There’s a small group of very self-assured teens at both schools who manage to get good grades, connect with teachers, and connect with each other while making it look effortless from the outside. Many of these kids are also from very wealthy families. The rest of the students can still get great educations, make friends, have good experiences in extracurriculars, etc., but we often grew up with some level of anxiety about not stacking up in one way or another.

It can be really difficult to tell when your child is in primary school whether he or she will have the disposition to thrive in a very competitive environment. Look at a few schools and try to get a sense for the community and culture at each.[/quote]

Very much this. Great schools if you have an excellent, motivated student. If not, it's really unfair to your kid to put them in that environment. I have one kid thriving at NCS and my other one loves STA but probably not the best fit academically. We won't move him but I see in retrospect that he would have been better off somewhere less intense academically.[/quote]

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