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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While there are definitely a number of students that excel and make it a grind, I think a lot of it is marketing.  If you look at their college placement it really doesn’t match with how they market themselves as STEM heavy or churning out women leaders. [/quote]

I'm always curious when people make this comment about college placement from Holton.
Where do you want them to go?
No school is going to send every single kid to one of the 8 Ivy League schools - this year's class has 7 kids going so far, plus 3 to Chicago, 4 to Michigan, 1 to Rice, many to top small colleges, and several to specialized programs like RISD.
What more could you want?  Especially at a time when it's actually harder for girls than boys to get into college because so many more apply.

People in the DMV think that only 10 out of the 3500 colleges in this country are acceptable.  [/quote]

But to PP point it’s not that everyone is killing themselves.  A lot of grads go to SMU, Syracuse, or similar.  Holton marketing makes it look like everyone who goes there are gunners but it’s not like that.  A lot of students can have a much easier workload, it’s not just time efficiency.[/quote]

Do you have a kid there?  I do. And they definitely don’t make it look like everyone is a gunner. Quite the opposite— they offer a range of classes including three levels of math, recognizing that there are different types of learners at the school. Not everyone is gunning for a T10. [/quote]

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