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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Setting the elitism, racism, anti-semitism, and sexism aside, is STA really all that hard academically?  I know a lot of boys who claim to have 3.7-3.8 unweighted GPAs in the upper school. These are not book worm types who spend their free time in the library studying, these are boys who spend their free time playing club sports and partying a lot. If STA is really that strenuous then how do so many students have such high GPAs?[/quote]

My son’s experience is yes.  He still hangs out with public school kids from his elementary school (now in HS) and he does a LOT more work than the public school kids by everyone’s estimation.  I have no doubt he is learning more than them.  But I also have no doubt the public school kids are getting a sufficient education and will get into better colleges than my son. My son will likely do 4-5 hours of outside work today, in addition to distance classes.  He does take a couple of advanced classes and drew some harder teachers for his regular classes.  But it is a lot.

As for kids with high GPAs who don’t seem to work a lot, I could see that if the boys are not taking any honors classes and few electives.  The classes aren’t weighted so all the grading shows up the same (though not as a 3.7, but rather the school uses 100 point scale).  I also think there are a fair number of very bright boys who don’t need to work all that much and still do very well, probably similar to other independent schools in the area.[/quote]

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