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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STA is not a strong STEM school.  
Only a very small fraction of boys (10 per year or less) take math beyond Calculus before graduating. 
(i.e. they started Algebra in 8th grade.).
They're not going to send many if any kids to MIT, top engineering programs, etc. 
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10-12 boys taking math beyond calculus is 12-15% of the class. Is that really that bad?

As a parent it seems to me that math may be the only STEM  area where STA matches local publics. Very weak in computer science and engineering and a general lack of breadth in science course offerings.  I’ve never felt the school pushes or would even easily accommodate doing independent research at the level necessary to do a top flight competition. Mandatory sports every season is a major time suck in that regard.

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If your kid's goal is MIT or Cal Tech or, heck, anything with "tech" in the name, you'd be well served sending him to a public magnet.  I've been a member of the STA community for over a decade and it is quite rare for a graduate to end up at any of these schools.   It's not that the STA boys don't have the innate STEM smarts - it's just not what the school has ever focused on.  They focus on the humanities in all its various forms seeking to produce boys well-rounded gentlemen.  A laudable goal, but one wonders how many future scientists and engineers have been snuffed out as a result.   Even in college counseling, once you get past the Ivies and Chicago (where 10% of the class feeds to every year), the push is for the  SLACs and mid-size universities with a liberal arts bent (like Wake or Bucknell).

I love the place though I wonder whether a recalibration of the STEM efforts are in order.[/quote]

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