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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Incoming 9th grade class does not seem to be overly sporty at all.  No lax players that I can tell.  Lots of academics.  [/quote]

Huh?  A few of them have already been told they will likely start varsity for the next 4 years.  One of them is the best player on a great travel team (not Next Level).  Beyond that, they are the only lower school class to beat Mater DEI in hoops (you should have seen Coach Green) in years and their best player was playing up a year and winning the MVP with the older class.  If they had all played together, they would have been able to beat anyone. There are kids whose parents played professional sports in the class.  When they played football with the class ahead of them, the 25s started over the 24s at every spot that matters.  I think you are confusing classes.  [/quote]

No, I'm talking about the NEW 9th graders.  The incoming 20 boys.  They are not a super sporty group. [/quote]

If that is the case that is an opportunity missed.   There were a couple adds over the last few years that are excellent athletes and great students.  A to A plus grades and D-1 potential types.  [/quote]

Yes, because d1 athletes who have perfect sat scores are just a dime a dozen. Silly sta for not picking those guys; they’re everywhere!  :roll:

These elite schools can’t stay elite and charge super high tuition if college placement and scores aren’t of paramount concern. Sta, like other elite schools, knows how to keep their numbers high and meet their marks with outplacement. Of course academics are going to be primary. They should be. Families don’t send kids to sta so they can peak in high school and look back on the glory days of their football seasons as the pinnacle of their lives. Academics are first. If a kid’s a great athlete, that’s gravy. It’s not easy to make a’s and a+‘s at a school like sta while being a true d1 recruit. Sorry, but even an unfair God doesn’t stack the deck so unevenly that often. [/quote]

It’s hard but they can be found as they have already been found and are at the school.  There are a bunch of boys who get top grades whose parents or a parent played college sports.  Not all D-1 but many could have and went to HYP instead.  The boys are competitive across many fields.  I think it’s the goal from the number of them.  [/quote]

You must be exaggerating. It cannot possibly be the goal of any school to have a class full of D-1 caliber athletes who also are academic superstars. The reason those kids really stand out is because *they stand out.* Even the most powerhouse athletic programs in the very large schools country (and academics be damned) don’t produce more than 8-10 D1 athletes a year. Those kids are great to have, of course. But so is the chess whiz. So are the choristers. So are the playwrights and dramatists. So are the debate champions.

If anyone is considering STA, please come look for yourself. Don’t read this and think if you didn’t play D-1 in college and/or your kid has other goals and talents besides D-1 sports that STA isn’t a possible good fit for your kid.

—Parent of a boy who is perfectly good at sports, makes great grades, plays an instrument, and loves the school[/quote]

Our kids years saw little if any overlap between Cum Laude kids and those who played sports in college. Not to say the athletes were not super students but it’s a stretch to say they were a bunch of them. [/quote]

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