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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How difficult is it to gain admission during an entry year (9th grade)? My DS is very intelligent but has been in public for ES and MS. Would appreciate any insights as well as any experiences others have had recently with their DS. Thanks![/quote]

For any boys transferring in from public, be prepared for a significant jump in workload and sky high expectations for writing skills. Boys in 9th are expected to write at the level of college sophomores. Several of your classes will be taught at a freshman college level: history, biology, English, Spanish/French. Geometry is taught at such a high level that freshmen from public schools who are repeating have trouble with it. [/quote]

Big exaggeration. Huge. [/quote]

So you say, non-STA parent.[/quote]

If you truly believe that your 9th grader at STA has writing skills on par with a college sophomore, I have some lovely oceanfront property in Kansas that you would jump at. [/quote]

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal. [/quote]

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year. [/quote]

[b]Actually, it’s Form III.[/b][/quote]

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area. [/quote]

Well, you’re not an STA parent and would not know what level of education the kids are getting, would you?

The fact that they entered Beauvoir at K has no bearing on the kids’ intelligence or on STA’s rigor. For some classes, there can be significant attrition and by 9th, less than half of the boys who enter are from Beauvoir.

The boys who stay at STA are bright, some exceptionally so, even if they can from Beauvoir.  Beauvoir parents are generally privileged, intelligent, and well-off.

Why would anyone assume that children of parents who graduated themselves from Ivies and other prestigious institutions who give their children the best grounding money can buy would have children who are uniformly dumb?

True, some of the parents are dimwitted trophies but most are not.[/quote]

Almost never is someone kicked out. I know one kid who said the worst word you can say and was not suspended. The attrition is largely people sending kids to boarding schools. You really think in the Beauvoir admissions process they are sorting for intelligence? If it makes you feel better, OK. I know lots of kids and lots of stories, including from the summer.[/quote]

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