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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sat scores going down is a fact. Info on the ncs website. Their school profile gives this information and it has definitely declined. [/quote]

Its a reflection of declining applications, and therefore lower standards.[/quote]

Exactly.  And that could have to do with their reputation and not just economy.  [/quote]
Why has their reputation suffered?[/quote]

I am also curious about the supposed decline in their rep.  We don't have kids @ a SS school, but know a lot of wonderful girls and young women @ NCS.  [/quote]

NCS's reputation has "suffered" only among a handful of DCUM bashers, and that's about it. Sorry, but I'm sick of this BS, whoever you are, and some of you have identified yourselves as disgruntled grads from the 80s, been exposed as trolls (the poster on another thread who was bashing away but couldn't identify the cafeteria) or even, and this is pure speculation, Holton boosters.

My own DD turned NCS down. I posted early on that 40-page NCS thread that NCS took the meanest girls from DD's K-6 and maybe NCS thought, mistakenly, that they were selecting for "strong" girls. That's my honest opinion, but obviously it's anecdotal, and I certainly didn't show up on every subsequent page to say exactly the same thing. The moderator ultimately shut that thread down because, he said, it had deteriorated into a couple of bashers who were bashing over and over.

So stop already with this nonsense. Bashing away and then posting in a declarative way that the school's "reputation has suffered" because of, um, your own online anonymous bashing, is petty and ridiculous.[/quote]

I recall that only one of the NCS "bashers" was an alum from the 80s. Most were parents like myself whose daughters had bad experiences.

NCS is plenty rigorous. I don't think there's any question. The problem isn't so much the academics, which are top notch, but the toxicity. You can have strong academics without it becoming so competitive. The girls really do seem to be pitted against each other, especially in 11th and 12th grade, and very few are happy. Many of the girls count the days until they can be liberated. There are some wonderful, caring teachers dealing with a lot of depressed and anxious girls in an atmosphere where the administration is far from caring. The lowering of admissions standards has made the dynamic worse because there are more girls struggling or feeling like they are struggling. There are, and will probably always be, the stars who do fine (though in my DD's class several of the "stars" had eating disorders by the time they graduated) and terrific girls who somehow rise above the crazy. I suspect there aren't more than a handful of girls who graduate with fond feelings toward the school. You cannot get a more rigorous education than at NCS, that is true, but teh price tag is high.

PP since you have no direct connection to the school, perhaps you shouldn't get so emotional. I find many common comments from those of us who do.[/quote]

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