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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no experience with Good Counsel, but we generally like SJC. The biggest complaint is that the SJC Scholars program is pretty unfair to kids who aren't in the program. Only Scholars can take honors religion freshman year, which gives them a GPA bump over the rest of the students. If honors religion was harder than regular freshman religion, then perhaps that would be fair. Honors freshman religion isn't any more difficult than regular freshman religion though, which means the Scholars get an artificial GPA bump. The senior seminar that Scholars take is also not a particularly difficult class, but they get a GPA bump for that class as well.

It's also ridiculous that only Scholars can automatically get two teacher recommendations for the college applications. Other students are only allowed one teacher recommendation, unless they can show that a college requires more than one rec.

My child is a Scholar, so she benefits from the program, but I still think it's completely unfair to the rest of the kids.  [/quote]

My non-scholar student automatically got two teacher recs last year and a third for applications that required a third. I don’t think your info is correct on that point. [/quote]

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