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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that the SAAS boys work really hard but why is it not reflected in college admissions?  Someone in one of these posts compares it to STA and SAAS boys take far more classes than STA boys. 
And yet SAAS rarely sends anyone to the Ivy League or equivalent.  Their college admissions are published each year in the local Catholic periodical (I'm forgetting the name).  They are fine but nothing 
to write home about.  Meanwhile STA will send 20% of the class to the Ivy League and the rest to top 50 schools.  Does anyone know why this is?  Do colleges just not know about SAAS?[/quote]

Simple answer.  SAAS families are less wealthy than STA families and quite often will choose a less expensive in-state option or a lower ranked school that offers good merit aid.

-SAAS parent [/quote]

+1.   Two more reasons..... SAAS does not have the handful of Ivy athletic recruits that STA has every year.  Nor does SAAS have the high percentage of Ivy legacy applicants that STA does.  [/quote]

+2 And though they are Ivy legacies, our sons chose non-Ivy schools for early decision and never applied to any of the Ivy equivalents. Those were not their first choice.

But it isn't true that they "rarely" send anyone to those schools -- [b]boys get into those schools every year.[/b] Not everyone who gets in chooses to go though; sometimes they get better offers. You may not think there is a better offer than Ivy, but many of these guys disagree.[/quote]

2021: 2 (Cornell and Columbia)
2020: 1 (Columbia)
2019: 2 (Dartmouth, Princeton)
2018: 2 (Penn, Cornell)
2017: 1 (Cornell)[/quote]

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