<p>I was wondering what the course load of BS students look like. If you are a current student at one of the more rigorous boarding schools could you comment what classes you take and what your schedule looks like? Thanks! These next 29 days will be difficult :(</p>
<p>I’m going to say it before others do, those are acronym schools, not necessarily the most rigorous. If you’re on, i would cut out what’s in those parentheses. Just a thought.</p>
<p>I would check out the schools’ online course books–they tell you what a typical schedule looks like.</p>
<p>@stargirl3 what parentheses? lol I just want to see from an actual student what classes they take, how much free time they have, etc. I want to see a CURRENT student’s classes not just a hypothetical or list of classes. I also want to see their opinions on their course load and classes.</p>
<p>Ok, gotcha. </p>
<p>@stargirl3 sorry if I sounded aggressive or rude, I didn’t mean to do so.</p>
<p>Oh no no no no! Did I sound that way? No no no you are fine. Rock on. 
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<p>Needtoboard|: my kid is a freshman at a Hidden Gem, a well regarded girls school. The freshmen seem to have about 25 hours of HW weekly… </p>
<p>DS freshman at Deerfield. 1st trimester: 5 classes, including 2 honors classes. Had 2 free periods a day. The way the schedule works (all classes M, T, F , but longer fewer classes W and Th), worst homework days are M and Th. really has homework in every class every day except a music class ( for which he has practicing). Honors classes don’t seem to have MORE work than other classes, but higher level work and you’re expected to do much more of leaning on your own or in small groups (rather than teacher explaining everything). All very doable with 2 free periods plus time at night. 2nd trimester: 6 classes (by choice), still 2 honors. Only one free period and 6th class somehow has more homework than any other class (at least it’s just one trimester long). Sport he’s taking has weird schedule— practice moves around every say, ranging from 3:30-4:30 on Mondays to 7:30-8:30 on Tuesdays. Much harder to get all his work done, though he seems to be keeping up. Will be back to 5 classes in Spring. Language class is most predictable in terms of homework, physics (accelerated version) probably hardest. English has a lot of writing, but usually short pieces. They split up finals so that, even though you have trimesters, each class only has finals twice a year ( so a Fall had English, Math and History, Winter has Science, Language, </p>
<p>Thank you @Daykidmom this was very helpful. Any other students or parents of students?</p>
<p>If you want to keep a “perfect” GPA, be ready to lose a lot of sleep. Being above average doesn’t take a too much effort though. </p>
<p>Oops-- end of message cut off . Winter:language, Science, history; Spring:math, English, Science, language. The one thing I did want to say is that some AP/honors classes in Junior and senior year really are more work, apparently, including more class time (double classes for labs). But freshmen and new sophomores usually are told to just take 5 classes so you have 2 frees and get used to the work. Some kids even manage to mostly just take 5classes all the way through.</p>