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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is hard to understand why the college admissions are so bad here. When you remove all the recruited athletes (mainly lacrosse), the remaining admissions seem uniquely subpar, and I know there are plenty of bright hardworking kids at SSSAS.[/quote]

Perhaps because the school has the reputation described by 13:45?[/quote]

Not our experience at all.  Academic excellence is encouraged.  However, it is not assumed that every single kid is capable of taking 3,4 or 5 AP/ honors classes a year.  And those classes do have a GPA boost so that does mean a broader spread in GPAs.  Not to be too much of a jerk about it but lots of the haters of SSSAS are at rival schools that did away with AP and honors altogether, thus eliminating this issue entirely.  At those schools, academic rigor isn’t any more than at SSSAS. On the contrary, those schools have a Lake Wobegon mindset wherein every student is above average.  Well, that is  baloney and everyone knows it.  At SSSAS, kids who are academically inclined get to take harder classes and get the GPA boost.  Kids that are more “on level” take the unboosted classes and get commensurately lower GPAs.  It’s not less academically rigorous at SSSAS.  It is possibly more for those accepted into the high level classes.  [/quote]

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