<p>So if you were in gifted, what happened? Where did your peers go? I know gifted fades into self selection but it seems around here that the public school kids follow a general route. </p>
<p>I live in a low class area…most of the gifted kids that went to my middle school stayed in the district…there aren’t many people that live around me that are in any kind of financial position to go to a private school.</p>
<p>Yes, I think I will just apply and see what happens. If I get in AND get enough aid, then I’ll go. Or if it doesn’t work out, I’ll just make the most of my own high school. Thanks for all the advice everyone.</p>
<p>Well, look up IB and see if you have an option with travelling distance in a public school. One of the IB programs is in a public school here that has 22 NMSF (2014) (more than JBS LOL) and has 73% economically disadvantaged students. FInd the public school that attracts the magnet kids, AP, IB, whatever. Great students do well wherever they are. </p>
<p>Well, I found a really good IB program in my area, but I still don’t really understand what it is. Could you explain a little further?</p>
<p>Not really, because you are a smart kid and can google anything you need to know. Once you have done that, contact the school, talk to the IB counsellor. Assuming it is in public, get on it soon because what you do in 9th a 10th is very important. Check first though, that there are actual vacancies. </p>
<p>IB is an alternative to taking AP courses for more advanced students. It is more of a structured curriculum, rather than a pick and choose that one may have with AP courses. Students may have a choice between SL (standard level) and HL (higher level) in each subject (HL may allow for advanced placement when one gets to college, like AP may). If considering such a thing, find out how A students in the IB courses do on the IB tests.</p>
<p>One doesn’t generally just decide they are going to go to JBS - they have to let you in. Each class is only 100 kids, it’s tough to get in in 7th grade, let alone if you’re a transfer. You might have a better shot at MICDS, where they have a bit more room. (Of course if you can get in with aid, that’s a different story.)</p>
<p>But here’s a (possibly) cheaper alternative - establish a residence in Clayton or Ladue School Districts and go there for free. Clayton and Ladue both have excellent programs and send their kids to the same schools that JBS and MICDS do - plus they’re public, so if you’re a resident, they have to take you. You’ll need a parent to rent the cheapest apartment you can find - probably around $500-600/mo., and you’ll need to live there during the week, they do check, but that’s considerably cheaper than $2000/mo for JBS if you could even get in.</p>
<p>The downside to your JBS plan is also that the average kids wind up going to some pretty average schools - I know a bunch of parents who sunk $150K into JBS just to have their kids wind up at the same school they would have gone to had they gone public.</p>
<p>You can see where all the grads from JBS, MICDS, Ladue, and Clayton decided to go to to college here:
<a href=“http://www.townandstyle.net/sep3/index.html”>http://www.townandstyle.net/sep3/index.html</a></p>
<p>It’s always the Labor Day issue (plus or minus a week) of any given year.</p>
<p>Well yes, of course I know they have to accept me. I’m not saying that I would necessarily get in, but I also know that St Louis area private schools are pretty lenient when it comes to admissions. I got accepted to a similar school last year, scoring in the 60-70th percentile on the entrance exam (which is really pretty bad, and they said that they usually accept people in the 75-85th percentile range or higher), I had no community service hours, had no special talents or gotten any outstanding awards, and there was not much that got me accepted to the school besides straight A’s and good reccomendations (both of which can be replicated). This school was only slightly less competitive than Burroughs last year, and also VERY underrated. </p>
<p>I don’t think it would be a realistic idea to pick up my life and move to an apartment in Ladue, just to go to another public school. If I spend money at all, it will be on the best schools St Louis has to offer. I have a family of 5, in which I’m not the only one who has a say in decisions, so that is not an option for me (and probably not an option for 99% of the United States high school population).</p>
<p>From what it sounds, IB courses seem to be very similar to AP courses when it comes to difficulty and prestige, so I think I’ll just stick with AP.</p>
<p>Well yes, of course I know they have to accept me. I’m not saying that I would necessarily get in, but I also know that St Louis area private schools are pretty lenient when it comes to admissions. I got accepted to a similar school last year, scoring in the 60-70th percentile on the entrance exam (which is really pretty bad, and they said that they usually accept people in the 75-85th percentile range or higher), I had no community service hours, had no special talents or gotten any outstanding awards, and there was not much that got me accepted to the school besides straight A’s and good reccomendations (both of which can be replicated). This school was only slightly less competitive than Burroughs last year, and also VERY underrated. </p>
<p>I don’t think it would be a realistic idea to pick up my life and move to an apartment in Ladue, just to go to another public school. If I spend money at all, it will be on the best schools St Louis has to offer. I have a family of 5, in which I’m not the only one who has a say in decisions, so that is not an option for me (and probably not an option for 99% of the United States high school population).</p>
<p>From what it sounds, IB courses seem to be very similar to AP courses when it comes to difficulty and prestige, so I think I’ll just stick with AP.</p>
<p>Really, this is just cerebral exercise, right? I mean. while moving is not realistic, neither is entering JBS by the sounds of it. </p>