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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

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!

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

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!

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Well, you’re not an STA parent and would not know what level of education the kids are getting, would you?

The fact that they entered Beauvoir at K has no bearing on the kids’ intelligence or on STA’s rigor. For some classes, there can be significant attrition and by 9th, less than half of the boys who enter are from Beauvoir.

The boys who stay at STA are bright, some exceptionally so, even if they can from Beauvoir. Beauvoir parents are generally privileged, intelligent, and well-off.

Why would anyone assume that children of parents who graduated themselves from Ivies and other prestigious institutions who give their children the best grounding money can buy would have children who are uniformly dumb?

True, some of the parents are dimwitted trophies but most are not.

Because, as history shows us, being born to wealth and success does not guarantee the next generation or two on down the line will uniformly maintain that.

It's almost the law of the Jungle that wealth breeds sloth or, at minimum, drug addiction and neurosis. While a bright kid born to poverty will often rise - not in spite of the obstacles- but because those obstacles forged a diamond. While, the kids of privilege were getting high and crashing Daddy's Porsche

What a telling stereotype. While there will always be some wealthy kids who crash and burn, the majority of those at STA do quite well, thank you.

The converse of your stereotype is that many bright kids born in poverty never make it out, and get lost to drugs, gangs, and shootings.

Wealthy, loving parents raise well-adjusted kids who do well in life. Most of the parents I know at STA are engaged and caring. Yes, in every class there are a few laissez-faire parents with screwed up kids. They are the minority.

It just makes you green all over, doesn’t it?

Such new money striver talk associating with how "wealthy" everyone is at your KID'S school and how "envious" everyone is of your 9th grader's internship in NYC. When you say things like this people feel the exact opposite you are trying to make them feel: instead they feel embarrassed for you.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Well, you’re not an STA parent and would not know what level of education the kids are getting, would you?

The fact that they entered Beauvoir at K has no bearing on the kids’ intelligence or on STA’s rigor. For some classes, there can be significant attrition and by 9th, less than half of the boys who enter are from Beauvoir.

The boys who stay at STA are bright, some exceptionally so, even if they can from Beauvoir. Beauvoir parents are generally privileged, intelligent, and well-off.

Why would anyone assume that children of parents who graduated themselves from Ivies and other prestigious institutions who give their children the best grounding money can buy would have children who are uniformly dumb?

True, some of the parents are dimwitted trophies but most are not.

Because, as history shows us, being born to wealth and success does not guarantee the next generation or two on down the line will uniformly maintain that.

It's almost the law of the Jungle that wealth breeds sloth or, at minimum, drug addiction and neurosis. While a bright kid born to poverty will often rise - not in spite of the obstacles- but because those obstacles forged a diamond. While, the kids of privilege were getting high and crashing Daddy's Porsche

What a telling stereotype. While there will always be some wealthy kids who crash and burn, the majority of those at STA do quite well, thank you.

The converse of your stereotype is that many bright kids born in poverty never make it out, and get lost to drugs, gangs, and shootings.

Wealthy, loving parents raise well-adjusted kids who do well in life. Most of the parents I know at STA are engaged and caring. Yes, in every class there are a few laissez-faire parents with screwed up kids. They are the minority.

It just makes you green all over, doesn’t it?

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Well, you’re not an STA parent and would not know what level of education the kids are getting, would you?

The fact that they entered Beauvoir at K has no bearing on the kids’ intelligence or on STA’s rigor. For some classes, there can be significant attrition and by 9th, less than half of the boys who enter are from Beauvoir.

The boys who stay at STA are bright, some exceptionally so, even if they can from Beauvoir. Beauvoir parents are generally privileged, intelligent, and well-off.

Why would anyone assume that children of parents who graduated themselves from Ivies and other prestigious institutions who give their children the best grounding money can buy would have children who are uniformly dumb?

True, some of the parents are dimwitted trophies but most are not.

Because, as history shows us, being born to wealth and success does not guarantee the next generation or two on down the line will uniformly maintain that.

It's almost the law of the Jungle that wealth breeds sloth or, at minimum, drug addiction and neurosis. While a bright kid born to poverty will often rise - not in spite of the obstacles- but because those obstacles forged a diamond. While, the kids of privilege were getting high and crashing Daddy's Porsche

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Well, you’re not an STA parent and would not know what level of education the kids are getting, would you?

The fact that they entered Beauvoir at K has no bearing on the kids’ intelligence or on STA’s rigor. For some classes, there can be significant attrition and by 9th, less than half of the boys who enter are from Beauvoir.

The boys who stay at STA are bright, some exceptionally so, even if they can from Beauvoir. Beauvoir parents are generally privileged, intelligent, and well-off.

Why would anyone assume that children of parents who graduated themselves from Ivies and other prestigious institutions who give their children the best grounding money can buy would have children who are uniformly dumb?

True, some of the parents are dimwitted trophies but most are not.

It’s “fewer than half the boys,” not “less than.”

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Well, you’re not an STA parent and would not know what level of education the kids are getting, would you?

The fact that they entered Beauvoir at K has no bearing on the kids’ intelligence or on STA’s rigor. For some classes, there can be significant attrition and by 9th, less than half of the boys who enter are from Beauvoir.

The boys who stay at STA are bright, some exceptionally so, even if they can from Beauvoir. Beauvoir parents are generally privileged, intelligent, and well-off.

Why would anyone assume that children of parents who graduated themselves from Ivies and other prestigious institutions who give their children the best grounding money can buy would have children who are uniformly dumb?

True, some of the parents are dimwitted trophies but most are not.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

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!

Your 9th grader worked with a Yale Law grad at an internship in New York last summer? Fascinating!

The oceanfront property is also available in Indiana!

I bet you sell lots of property and all of it with lush, mature, green plantings. All very green. Your green envy blinds you to a world you know nothing about and can’t even contemplate!!

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

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!

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

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!

Your 9th grader worked with a Yale Law grad at an internship in New York last summer? Fascinating!

The oceanfront property is also available in Indiana!

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

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!

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Nope. They are better.

Not really. NCS often outshines STA when comparing college placements. Sidwell as well and even GDS.

Not the last few years and certainly not this year. STA placements are much better than NCS.

I do not have a kid in the 2024 class at either but looked at NCS Instagram and more than half of the NCS girls are going to top 25 Universities or SLACs.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Nope. They are better.

Not really. NCS often outshines STA when comparing college placements. Sidwell as well and even GDS.

Not the last few years and certainly not this year. STA placements are much better than NCS.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Big exaggeration. Huge.

So you say, non-STA parent.

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.

I didn’t say that the kids did have writing skills at that level, honey. I said that’s what the expectations are from the teachers. Almost all kids at STA get B’s and C’s in English their freshmen year because they don’t meet those expectations. It’s brutal.

May I pour you another glass of Kool-Aid?

PS. It’s “freshman” year, not “freshmen” year.

Actually, it’s Form III.

Ultimate annoying STA parent quote. If you think a school where 2/3 got in via Beauvoir in K is filled to the brim with kids taking "college level" courses due to their genius...I know of several kids there: they are just normal kids getting a good education. Their college results (outside of U of Chicago) are just like any other private in the area.

Nope. They are better.

Not really. NCS often outshines STA when comparing college placements. Sidwell as well and even GDS.