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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an alum, I can say STA is a great school, but it has some drawbacks as well.  A number of the teachers are hired first as coaches and then placed as teachers - often in 6-9th grade.   Their teaching ability is sometimes less than impressive.  The school also benefits from a "good in - good out" situation where bright kids getting in do well when they leave thereby enhancing the school's reputation.  (Think Thomas Jefferson in Fairfax County, a Public School that has higher SAT scores than St. Albans and is FREE).  If your son is in the top 20 percent of his STA class, the school will provide him some great benefits.   If not, be careful.  Finally, many of my friends complained that while they were well prepared academically for college, they were surprised at how many of their classmates from public school were as well.  We were told too often that we were "the best and the brightest" and some seemed a little surprised to find out how many other bright, competent, successful kids there are in the world.   Many also felt sheltered by the small school - some having the same set of friends for as many as 13 years.  They experienced some difficulty adjusting to college when they were exposed to the "bigger world".[/quote]

Not OP.  My son has only been at STA for a few years and this info will come in very handy.  Staying in the top 20 percent, absolutely!  A family friend's son flunked out of college during freshmen year, experienced severe problems adjusting.   Very sensitive to the harm of not grounding our son in the realities of life outside of STA.

Thank you for sharing.    [/quote]

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