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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids in both high schools. 
STA is not easy but it's objectively much easier than NCS.  If you do the readings, write the papers and study you can do well. You might have to do a lot of work but if you do it, you'll do well. 
NCS is next level.  Girls can do everything right and still get a B+ because the teacher is only giving out two A minuses across 80 kids.  It's just impossible at times. 
You can do the work, stand on your head, count to 100, say the magic word and still end up with a B. 
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This. We moved and at the new school, DD re-wrote her first paper 7 times and hoped she’d get a B. She got 100. She was used to NCS standards. [/quote]

I'm an alumna. My "highly selective" college was much easier than NCS. Talk to most NCS grads and they will say the same. Yes, it prepared me well but I will never feel any fondness for the place. I would never choose it for my daughter.[/quote]
I wonder if things have changed, culture-wise, in the past 15 plus years. That is definitely the message I was given when our daughter applied. Much more diversity, and more focus in community. I don’t discount your experience but institutions do evolve. [/quote]
This is a data point of one, but I have a co-worker who graduated from NCS in the past 5 years who feels exactly the same way as PP (i.e., school prepared her quite well for undergrad, no fondness for the place).[/quote] You have a very young coworker.[/quote]

Yes was thinking the same thing. Is she still in college or in her First year out of college? [/quote]

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