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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend with a daughter at NCS told me that the motto of the school should be something along the lines of: Where the excellent go to feel like they suck [/quote]
That about sums up my personal experience there. 
-NCS grad[/quote]

How did college go?  Due to coming from this environment, did you feel it benefited you in the long run?  Were you more prepared?[/quote]
It was a very strong education. Was I “more prepared” than if I had attended a HS that didn’t make me miserable and think I was a failure even though I was a solid B+ student? (Literally. I was talking to my mom years later about how I nearly failed out of HS and she was like, what are you talking about? She actually dug up my old report cards to show me I was just fine — I remembered it as always being on the brink of failure.)

No, I don’t think I was more prepared because of NCS. I was actually a solid but not amazing student, and a very strong writer without much effort. I think I would have been just as well prepared and far happier and less burned out at any one of the many strong schools in the DC area.

College was ROUGH, not because I was unprepared but because I was burned out and had a hard time settling myself to focus and study. [/quote]

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