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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our experience (2 daughters in US, neither went to SR MS), both daughters noticed some girl on girl drama freshman year - girls who were popular in MS were dropped from a group, friend groups formed and girls were excluded, groups split up and rebranded, etc.  typical stuff.  Never heard of anything bad or mean.  Zero drama after that.  My DDs have strong friend groups with a mix of girls; the only homogeneous group (bear with me…) is the lacrosse group - pretty much all lacrosse players and a few others. The other groups are mixed. Also keep in mind that there may be inside groups and outside groups. One DD is close with a number of girls AT SCHOOL but doesn’t see most of them on the weekends (she and her closest friends hang together on weekends but other girls in the group do other things).

Academic drama - no cheating or backstabbing or stealing notes or stuff like that, but girls talk about grades a lot which causes stress.

Athletics - lacrosse girls seem to get special treatment.   Sports are very competitive across the board.  If your DD isn’t an athlete she might feel a little left out.   One of ours is a rec player and has done well on the JV team but prob won’t make varsity as a junior.

Parents - I don’t socialize  much but get the sense that most of the stronger parent connections were made before US (sports, country clubs, lower schools).  So there’s definitely a split among the parents, if you care about those things.  My advice is if you aren’t friends with SR parents now, don’t count on making friends once your DD is there. At least if your DD starts SR in upper school.

Admin has been pretty good, but we haven’t had any issues. One DD has some symptoms of LD but not diagnosed.  We spoke with the school and they responded admirably.  The AD is kind of a doofus; zero backbone and puts up with sub-par coaches (on and off field behavior) who seem to forget they are coaching high school girls.

Overall, we’ve been very happy.  You get what you pay for. Our DDs would not have done well at a Big 3 and are appropriately challenged at SR. [/quote][/quote]

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