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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - Does anyone have a sense of how the earlier years are for non-BVR kids who go to STA? Thinking about applying next year for our DS but worried about a dynamic where there are a ton of kids who've been together at BVR since K and then a small group of truly new kids, and whether that creates weird cliques and whatnot that are hard to break into for the non-BVR kids. [/quote]

Think of it this way.....
There are 45 - 48 boys in the 4th grade.  Beauvoir sends 25 - 30 each year.  By 6th grade, the Beauvoir contingent is in the minority. And in a post on another topic a parent refers to the 4th grade as a "great awakening" for the Beauvoir boys.[/quote]

A bit of a distorted view point

First off, BVR ends in 3rd grade and [b]STA admits a LOT in 6th and 9th[/b] so " Beauvoir being in minority by HS " just reflects the fact that BVR can only send 4th graders NOT because the BVR kids are, as poster seems to insinuate, inferior

Far from it.

In DC's class a full 1/3 of the Cum Laude inductees were lifers ( started at BVR in Pre-K )

OP, its a great school all around. Hope you apply and best of luck to your DC[/quote]

In my son's grade there were 5 new boys admitted in 6th and 18 in 9th.  Also about 12 in 7th.  
But it's not exactly a deluge of new kids at any point but a decent trickle here and there. [/quote]

well, in 7th grade it increases the class by about 25% and in 9th grade by about 30%. Adding 30 kids in 7th and 9th when your graduating class is only 75-80 is a meaningful change.[/quote]

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