Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 22:35     Subject: Re:St Andelm's Abbey
34 this year. And more than twice the size of last year. Yes, the school is looking to expand slightly the size of the classes. But they only take boys they think will succeed.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 17:20     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:SAAS parents, the college admissions seem pretty typical for a DC area public school - Harvard 1, Stanford 0, Princeton 0, Yale 0, Columbia 1 - over the past 3 years. How does that jibe with the academic focus and heavy emphasis on APs?


There are only 30-40 graduates each year from SAAS (so about 5-10% of the size of a typical local public school graduating class). So unless you multiply the SAAS admissions to particular schools by a factor of 10 your comparisons to public schools are meaningless.



Actually, there have been considerably fewer than 30 graduates in recent years. Last year's class was maybe 15 kids, and this year's is in the twenties. It's a REALLY small school.

And it is absolutely the case that the kids turn down Ivies for cost reasons. There was just an article in the post about a senior who was going to go to Notre Dame until he received a full merit scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania in a special program for undergrad plus masters degree in four years -- in microbiology, I believe. There are far fewer wealthy families able to pay full-fare at an expensive private school, and that factor drives where the boys matriculate.




Actually I counted 35 kids in this year's graduating class from the Parish Times article linked in this thread. I have heard the school is looking to get to 40 per grade for high school.

Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 17:11     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
Anonymous wrote:SAAS parents, the college admissions seem pretty typical for a DC area public school - Harvard 1, Stanford 0, Princeton 0, Yale 0, Columbia 1 - over the past 3 years. How does that jibe with the academic focus and heavy emphasis on APs?


You are actually wrong about this. There were two kids who went to Brown in 2014 alone and kids go to Penn each year. For such a small graduating class they have impressive college placement with a much higher percentage going to Ivies.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 16:59     Subject: Re:St Andelm's Abbey
For middle school admissions the school is typically looking for 95th percentile or higher on their OLSAT/SCAT test. This is not an official admissions office policy, but is what I was told by someone inside the school.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 16:09     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
Anonymous wrote:How hard is it to get in, competition-wise?


If your kid scores well on their test, he will get in. It is not a school that has to turn away qualified applicants.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 14:46     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:SAAS parents, the college admissions seem pretty typical for a DC area public school - Harvard 1, Stanford 0, Princeton 0, Yale 0, Columbia 1 - over the past 3 years. How does that jibe with the academic focus and heavy emphasis on APs?


There are only 30-40 graduates each year from SAAS (so about 5-10% of the size of a typical local public school graduating class). So unless you multiply the SAAS admissions to particular schools by a factor of 10 your comparisons to public schools are meaningless.



Actually, there have been considerably fewer than 30 graduates in recent years. Last year's class was maybe 15 kids, and this year's is in the twenties. It's a REALLY small school.

And it is absolutely the case that the kids turn down Ivies for cost reasons. There was just an article in the post about a senior who was going to go to Notre Dame until he received a full merit scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania in a special program for undergrad plus masters degree in four years -- in microbiology, I believe. There are far fewer wealthy families able to pay full-fare at an expensive private school, and that factor drives where the boys matriculate.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 14:28     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
How hard is it to get in, competition-wise?
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 09:57     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:SAAS parents, the college admissions seem pretty typical for a DC area public school - Harvard 1, Stanford 0, Princeton 0, Yale 0, Columbia 1 - over the past 3 years. How does that jibe with the academic focus and heavy emphasis on APs?


There are only 30-40 graduates each year from SAAS (so about 5-10% of the size of a typical local public school graduating class). So unless you multiply the SAAS admissions to particular schools by a factor of 10 your comparisons to public schools are meaningless.



Hmm - new poster here - this still seems like a relatively small representation if the pp is correct in that the numbers quoted were over the past 3 years...


SAAS is the kind of school that cares more about educating its young people than catering to the admissions games of top schools. It really is a school for those who want a well educated child, especially in the traditional sense of that word. It is not a great school for those who are focused on admission to a highly rated undergraduate institution (although they do have graduates who do go on to that kind of program). Also,many of the SAAS families could not afford HYP. The tuition at SAAS is not as high as other privates, and it attracts people who wouldn't otherwize consider private school, but are attracted either to its educational approach or to its religious aspect. Many of these people are in the income level that does not receive much financial aid but can not easily afford full tuition, especially for multiple kids. They tend to look for undergraduate institutions that give better financial packages.
This sums it up perfectly. In fact, the placement office actively councils these boys not to go into great debt for a "name" especially when aid is aid is available.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2016 09:42     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
That's us for sure! Our SAAS son will go to a solid college but we aren't going to leverage our future retirement to make it happen.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2016 22:09     Subject: Re:St Andelm's Abbey
It does make sense if you are in a family that can't afford to spend $65k a year but don't qualify for FA.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2016 22:01     Subject: Re:St Andelm's Abbey
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Looks like a little under 15% of the class of '16 is attending Ivy's, going off of that list, but I don't think enrolling students in super competitive undergraduate programs is a driving part of their mission.


I have heard from a SAAS parent that their are typically a number of grads each year that turn down Ivy acceptances and instead choose to accept substantial merit scholarships to excellent (but non-Ivy) undergraduate programs.


Yeah right! That makes total sense!
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2016 18:49     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
Queue the troll. This post was far too civil apparently
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2016 17:51     Subject: St Andelm's Abbey
Was there for the 1st time last month. What a dump.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2016 17:50     Subject: Re:St Andelm's Abbey
Anonymous wrote:Looks like a little under 15% of the class of '16 is attending Ivy's, going off of that list, but I don't think enrolling students in super competitive undergraduate programs is a driving part of their mission.


I have heard from a SAAS parent that their are typically a number of grads each year that turn down Ivy acceptances and instead choose to accept substantial merit scholarships to excellent (but non-Ivy) undergraduate programs.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2016 16:51     Subject: Re:St Andelm's Abbey
Looks like a little under 15% of the class of '16 is attending Ivy's, going off of that list, but I don't think enrolling students in super competitive undergraduate programs is a driving part of their mission.