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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STA should be a model for Sidwell and a few of the IAC schools. STA has strong academics, if not the best academics in the area. They also have a strong sports program. They are certainly not DeMatha or Gonzaga (they dont have an enrollment close to 1,000 boys) but STA is always solid in football, soccer, lacrosse and of course baseball every year. I applaud the administration for maintaing academic excellence and fielding great athletic teams across all sports!

Landon and Prep do a great job with finding a balance between academics and athletics as well. [/quote]

STA's academic standards really don't stack up to Sidwell's. St. Albans lags behind NCS significantly in academics, though few seem to want to admit it. My daughter, who is at NCS, talks a lot about how the St. Albans boys dread being placed into classes taught at NCS because of their significantly higher levels of academic rigor. She also told me something that shocks me; St. Albans boys cheat on tests on a regular basis. I didn't really believe me but she and her friends assured me. I, like most of you, have trouble accepting this, but my daughter wouldn't fabricate something like that. My graduated from Sidwell in '06, and he'll be the first to tell you that at Sidwell this just didn't happen. So before you hastily qualify St. Albans as the frontrunner in DC metro area academics, get the inside scoop. [/quote]

NCS does not lag behind STA.  Most NCS girls also prefer the STA teachers.   STA also offers the popular  Expo class plus Creative writing with the writer in residence.   FYI.   There are some girls at NCS and some boys at STA with dubious character.   You get these creeps everywhere.

I also have a DD at NCS   and know of the Sidwell social scene.

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