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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a much healthier atmosphere academically than the other schools.

Yes, you can have a rigorous academic experoience if you choose but won't get counseled out if you, gasp, get a C.[/quote]

Broader gap from top to bottom -- courses include remedial level courses which all passes.  Good teaching.  Classes at the top cover less material at slightly less advanced level than comparable highest level classes at strongest privates.  Plenty of good students, fewer great students than at some of the strongest privates.  Good diversity, including Chinese students from abroad.  Much more willing to make accommodations for sports (no SSAT required, acceptance of senior transfers, redshirting by "reclassifying" students) than strongest privates.[/quote]

I agree with all of this except the "reclassify" statement. All the schools have kids that are redshirted. Every single one.

I know a kid who went to Bullis because it was one of the few that did not ask him to repeat 8th grade. (his grades are A/B at a academically rigorous school, his puberty was behind the curve though)

Bullis is the only private actively recruiting and accepting senior transfers. By doing this, it tells people that winning at sports is what important Bullis. The Bullis community keeps insisting academics are important yet they keep pursuing senior transfers. The parents and the Board don't seem willing to stop it so this is the conclusion people reach.

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