Reply to NCS college admissions if kid is not a legacy, URM, or athletic recruit

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "NCS college admissions if kid is not a legacy, URM, or athletic recruit "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
This is either crazy hyperbole or you are grossly underestimating what it takes to do PHD level work.[/quote]
 
OP may not entirely accurate in comparing the writing standards with PhDs, but not that far either.  An A requires extremely high quality work where papers are being judged by teacher who, for most part, appear to have lost track of the fact that they are evaluating high school students.[/quote]

I have daughters at NCS and I routinely say that the writing standards in high school are beyond what was expected at my university. I went to a top 30 college FWIW. [/quote]

Three cheers for overkill. Unf doing it in the sports field has better results than for junior year literature and writing class. [/quote]

True. When top schools prioritize sports over academic skills...
[/quote]

Was referring to where a student may spend their time.  Getting better at your sport and trying out for state or national team. 
Or doing hour 4 or 5 homework for your prima donna literature teacher who only gives out Bs.

What’s better for your sanity, life and college portfolio/application.

The school doesn’t prioritize sports, they can barely cobble together teams and their smal sizes.  All the good athletes at private and public do top travel teams or state teams or compete solo in east coast tournaments.  Their high school sports team is not the highlight of their athletic accomplishments whatsoever. So no, school doesn’t help there.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics