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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]AT STA? You are joking?

You can make a focused and smart kid an athlete, and STA does. You can not make a good dribbler a scholar. STA looks for bright kids with a spark. Period. Code cracked. The 'bright' isn't negotiable, and is necessary but insufficient. Then they need a spark (not a 'hook'). It could be art, athletics, music. Those are the 'hooks'. Most of these boys usually have talents in ALL areas, and truly excel at 2 or 3 in HS.[/quote]

And that's why the acceptance rate to STA is about 40 %  (in the tougher 9th grade year)!
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I am not sure you can get much from that list, other than the fact that STA is not as difficult to get into as other boarding schools.  But most of the people (I would venture to guess all) who are on this forum talking about STA who have kids there live in the DC area and are not actually interested in sending their kid to a boarding school.  They wanted a great school in DC and they are sending their boys to one that happens to have a small boarding component.

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NP, here. Also, wouldn't it make sense for those schools to be more selective, given that they are, for the most part, receiving applications from around the country and world. Yes, STA has boarders, but it's essentially a local day private school. The pool of applicants is therefore smaller and thus a higher number  could and should be acceptable than at a traditional boarding school.[/quote]

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