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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow...7 boys from st.pat's got into STA for 7 th hmmmmm 
That has to be a record. I wonder why this could be...[/quote]

Actually, [b]8[/b] boys in the current 6th grade class got offers of admission to St Albans.  One choose Sidwell instead but he was not the only one who also got an offer from Sidwell.  Three kids got offers from Sidwell although only one choose to accept.  Five girls from St Pats are going to NCS for 7th next year, as well as one to GDS, one to Maret, one to Landon and four to Potomac, although most of these schools extended offers to to more than one St Pats applicant.

Regardless of folks on this board who are stuck on "the big three" for the early years, there are other exceptionally strong schools out there that do not go through highschool.  St Pats is at the top of that heap but there are some others.  St Pats has a very strong academic curriculum that manages to differentiate at both ends of the learning curve and does as well with underperforming kids as with the strongest students.  All students from K up now have Spanish as a required subject, remedying a past weakness of the school's.  Also, the arts are highly valued at St Pats and these programs are equally as strong as academics.  And, most recently, the sports program has become much stronger, although it could still use a bit more emphasis on real athletic skills.  Overall, students who graduate from St Pats in 6th and 8th are some of the strongest candidates out there applying to the area's upper schools and nationally recongized boarding schools (Andover, Choate, Deerfield, etc...).  This is not howver, the first year seven boys have gone from St Pats to St Albans for 7th grade.  The same number went two years ago.[/quote]

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