Reply to St. Alban's

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "St. Alban's"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[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]

My kid got an internship in NYC last year and the Yale Law grad who was helping with the program (and didn’t know my kid was in high school, let alone only a rising sophomore) said he wrote better than anyone else in the program and most of them were in college.  The judge had to tell her “that kid is only in high school!”  Onward STA!  [/quote]

I’m pretty sure this post is a spoof of nutty STA parents, and not real.   Law firms don’t hire 10th graders.   And if they did, it would be to move boxes, not write briefs going to a judge. [/quote]

Wasn’t a law firm.  Was a public interest internship with kids from all kinds of backgrounds and lawyers from all kinds of practices.  It was actually very cool.  [/quote]

We're so impressed!!![/quote]

PP is being sarcastic, but I (DP) think it does sound cool. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics