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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is a link to a page where a poster put up the full class listing for STA for the class of 2012 (I think it is the third post down):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/165/227610.page[/quote]

Looks like last year STA had 30% matriculate at Ivy/Stanford.  What the heck, those sound like pretty good numbers to me!

I don't have a child at STA, but taught at a well-regarded boarding school once upon a time (and a few . . . ahem . . . pounds and gray hairs ago) and there was still a reasonably wide spread of student ability/achievement.  Not every student went to a top US News & World College, by any means.

For those concerned with how a school supports college applications, I would check with a good range of current families to see if they were happy with the level of support the college counseling office provides.  (And do talk to a range of families, because not everyone can separate the results from the process -- or recognize when their child did not objectively perhaps have the qualifications the parent sees in him/her.)  Then try to talk to some alumni families to see if their kids felt well prepared and confident in college with the education they got at their independent school.  Question #2 is more important than question #1, but both are reasonable to ask.

It is a ton of money to send a child to private school, so it is hard [b]not[/b] to tie the "worth" of a private school education (or any high school education) to college admissions, but objectively if we wanted more than anything in the world to get our kids into Harvard or Yale we'd move to North Dakota or Wyoming and send them to the local high school there.  They'd have a better percentage chance of getting in, but would they have the preparation, and more importantly, would they have the education we want for them?

That's enough being high-minded for now!  Off to toast the end of the summer with a cold frosty one.

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