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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Summary of the issue: NCS is a grind for students at almost all academic levels in upper school - from the students taking stat senior year to the students in the equivalent of calc 3.  It’s a hard school academically.   This is especially true in the humanities and social sciences where students must produce written work that is on a PHD level to earn an A.  IMO normal high level high school writing, which is still time consuming, will earn you at most a B+ if you happy to have one of the “easier” teachers.  NCS is also full of students and families who have the “top schools only” mindset and that being stressed to the point of unhealthy is the norm.  To have that much stress and grind to then end up at a great, but not elite, school just is not worth it for students who are going in with that mindset of “top top top” which is where most of the families are when they start.  [b]It’s a damn good education in terms of skills and knowledge acquired - this is why many students who end up at the less elite schools get a 4.0 freshman year then transfer to more elite schools like UVA.[/b]  [/quote]

That is not bad plan. Know of kids from other privates who do this.[/quote]

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