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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to OP question, your chances are highly unlikely. Your son is not doing well at an academically rigorous middle school. St. Albans would assume he’s not going to do well at their school.  Unless you have a very convincing story about why he can do better at St Albans, it’s not going to happen. Perhaps your son has an outstanding sports talent or other hook for St. Albans entry, but from the original post details I’d say not likely at all. [/quote]

So there are no boys at STA with mostly Bs? Are those boys all counseled out then?[/quote]

No, but there’s a difference between getting in and then getting B’s, at which point you have invested in the school and the school has invested in you versus trying to get in with just B’s. Consider, for instance, a lifer at sidwell. Tons of lifers will make B’s. Sidwell isn’t going to counsel them out for B’s; they’ve invested in them, and the kid has invested in the school. But sidwell wouldn’t likely take someone with all B’s with no existing investment. All of these top schools admit kids they think have the potential to do really well, and obviously they know that not everyone will get straight A’s. Is there a chance someone with B’s from SAAS could get in? Probably, at least without knowing more. But whether they get in or not won’t have anything to do with whether someone already at the school is making B’s…of course someone is. [/quote]

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