What's the fixation on St. Albans lacrosse players? The big spring sport at St. Albans is not lacrosse;it's CREW. The team traditionally finishes among the top five high school eights in the USA. They were runner-up at the scholastic nationals this year to an exceptionally talented Gonzaga team. The second largest interest among the boys is BASEBALL. Lacrosse seems to be the third or fourth choice by many of the boys for their spring sport. Therefore, they don't have the depth that many of their opponents do. It is a credit to a small core of boys and their coaches that they have remained competitive in the best lacrosse league in the area. The boys tend to go to schools where they can contribute, not just put on gear and be a member of the fraternity.

Anonymous wrote:Everybody's going to college. The class size is only 76, and there is a gap year situation for one (very strong) student.

College sports? Some bound for Division I (lightweight and heavyweight crew at various Ivies; lacrosse; baseball; basketball) and quite a few additional athletes destined to play at Division III schools (mostly baseball and lacrosse with some additional sports).

Can someone post the specific number of STA lax players who will be playing at the college level next year?

NCS publishes a college list - see the independent, but does not give final #s.

Anonymous wrote:Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

Anyone have the final numbers for NCS?

Everybody's going to college. The class size is only 76, and there is a gap year situation for one (very strong) student.

College sports? Some bound for Division I (lightweight and heavyweight crew at various Ivies; lacrosse; baseball; basketball) and quite a few additional athletes destined to play at Division III schools (mostly baseball and lacrosse with some additional sports).

Anonymous wrote:Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

What's really impressive is the "bottom" of this list. Graduating in the bottom third of this year's STA class put you, where, Purdue? Franklin and Marshall? Seriously, try to round up the "worst" 25 slots here without pushing into some pretty darn good schools.

Anonymous wrote:Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

How many will be playing college sports? Which sports?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

Two boys are not going to college?

Maybe they're taking a gap year. I've known boys throughout the years who pursued their music careers, needed a break to travel and reflect, etc. Actually, I'm surprised that the number isn't higher.

Anonymous wrote:Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

Two boys are not going to college?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

About what you'd expect I guess, but less impressive than TJ in FCPS.

It was 24 matriculating at Ivies/Stanford out of a graduating class of 76. That's a slightly over 30%. TJ has a graduating class of 480 -- they would need almost 150 kids at Ivies/Stanford/MIT to match this at the top end, and I doubt they've got that based on past numbers.

This is not to say that TJ is not stronger from top to bottom -- it may well be -- but only to say on this one particular issue, percentage of students going to this particular subgroup of colleges, STA probably did as well or better than TJ this year on the percentages.

However, as other poster have noted, this is also an unusually strong class at St. Albans. Normally I think the ivies/Stanford/MIT percentage is around 20%.

I find the STA stats really impressive. There's no point comparing with TJ - for one thing, lots of TJ kids go to UVA because their families can't afford private college - or private schools. For another thing, lots of TJ kids want Stanford or MIT, not Ivies. Apples and oranges. Congrats to the STA kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:65% did not get into ivies?

No, and 35% don't usually get in. Thus, the post's title, "Big College Admissions Year at St. Albans."

Tjere were SEVERAL legacies this year bringing it up to the 35% (not all were...so congrats to those who earned it the hard way!)..

Few legacies and few sports recruits, actually. And one legacy was valedictorian and one a Presidential Scholar, so any assumption that all legacies got a free pass ignores many confounding factors.

Anonymous wrote:It would be interesting to compare this list with NCS. I've heard that there are fewer qualified boys applying, so it's easier for them to get into HYP etc.

STA did have a lot more NMSFs than NCS this year -- it was just a strong year at STA. Some years the NCS college admissions list looks better than STAs's -- these are very small sample sizes so a swing of 5 kids makes a big difference. And yes, it really is all about what the kids bring to the table -- both schools give wonderful educations but neither one would promise they'll take an average student and they'll get an Ivy admission at the end of the day. And the Ivies, while wonderful, are not the best destination for every kid, as every independent school in this area would also tell you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

About what you'd expect I guess, but less impressive than TJ in FCPS.

It was 24 matriculating at Ivies/Stanford out of a graduating class of 76. That's a slightly over 30%. TJ has a graduating class of 480 -- they would need almost 150 kids at Ivies/Stanford/MIT to match this at the top end, and I doubt they've got that based on past numbers.

This is not to say that TJ is not stronger from top to bottom -- it may well be -- but only to say on this one particular issue, percentage of students going to this particular subgroup of colleges, STA probably did as well or better than TJ this year on the percentages.

However, as other poster have noted, this is also an unusually strong class at St. Albans. Normally I think the ivies/Stanford/MIT percentage is around 20%.

It would be interesting to compare this list with other big 3s.

It would be interesting to compare this list with NCS. I've heard that there are fewer qualified boys applying, so it's easier for them to get into HYP etc.