<p>Hello all!</p>
<p>There seems to be a lack of information/threads/knowledge about Groton here, so I thought I'd offer as much advice as I can to any prospective students.</p>
<p>I'll be a Sophmore next year, so any questions about academics, admissions, or student life feel free to ask here!</p>
<p>What do you love about Groton and what do you not?</p>
<p>What other school did u apply to & why Groton
Hows the football & Ice hockey
Whats your fav class so far, why
how are the dorms
hows the food
whats to do on wk ends</p>
<p>Love About Groton - Class sizes, the teachers, a lot of the kids</p>
<p>Hate About Groton - Very closed community, sometimes feels small, not a lot of chances to get off campus</p>
<p>Football - We’re not very good honestly, and next year will be tough since we lost tons of kids and there are going to be only 4 (including myself) Sophmores on the team</p>
<p>Ice Hockey - Very good for a school of our size, almost won a tournament this year that included schools like Cushing, won our Division last year, lots of hockey recruits coming in </p>
<p>Class - English, since writing is by far my strongest subject and I got a great teacher</p>
<p>Dorms - Freshman dorms kinda suck, but you bond really well with the other guys, Upper School dorms are nice, have some privacy</p>
<p>Food - Is great for a BS, especially lunch</p>
<p>Weekends - Pretty dull. There are dances every Saturday night but they were pretty stale, except the last 2 which were INSANE. Lot of chilling/sports on the Circle, and just scaring up fun with friends</p>
<p>Did your football coach reach out to you during the application process or were you, more/less a walk on?
Does Cushings have a respectable reputation as a hockey school up there?
Hows Groton for finding extra academic help?
What were the other schools you considered besides G?</p>
<p>Football is not recruited at Groton, so pretty much all the kids are “walk ons”
You can talk to a coach during the application process</p>
<p>Cushing has a reputation as one of the best hockey schools in New England</p>
<p>Really really good. You can meet with teachers all the time and there are some faculty members whose job it is to help struggling students find ways to manage work</p>
<p>I applied to Groton and St. Paul’s</p>
<p>good info, thanks.
I really love the feel of the campus but I<code>m a little worried about the dorms. So whats the deal with the 8th&9th grade dorms. Looks like curtains instead of doors. That seems sort of campy. I imagine it</code>s structured for bonding but isn’t it lacking privacy and gaining more noise? How did you deal with it your freshman year? (I did a drive by but have yet to take a tour)</p>
<p>** GROTON SUCKSSS!!! ** I’ll eat you zebras up!!! :D</p>
<p>I go to St. Mark’s by the way :)</p>
<p>Josh-that comment was really uncalled for and immature. You are not placing St. Marks’s in a great light.</p>
<p>8th grade is just a curtain, bed, and some drawers (no desk as study hall is done in the school room)</p>
<p>9th grade is a cubicle of sorts. There is a door, but the walls do not reach the ceiling so its kind of a moot point. Inside, there is a divider down the middle of the room (about 6 ft. tall) with a desk and bed on each side for the roommates.</p>
<p>Hard to get your head around but I thought it was pretty cool, makes for good prank opportunities too. However, the dorm heads can hear what’s going on pretty easily so my dorm got in trouble a fair bit </p>
<p>@JoshByron
Haha nice to see some rivalry here.
Well the St. Mark’s baseball hat I won this year begs to differ :P</p>
<p>Alexz825Mom obviously didn’t get it…Groton and St. Mark’s are both known for having a long and well known (at least I thought…until I ran into Alexz) rivalry towards each other. Actually, I don’t even know if you could call it a rivalry - instead it brings both schools, who share a lot of the same views and traditions (close-knit community, religion, sportsmanship,etc etc.) even closer three times each year, which is what is called ** GROTON DAY ** over here in St. Mark’s. 
Before you talk, Alexz825mom, get your research right.</p>
<p>EDIT:
Also, to further prove my point, I only referred to the Grotonians as zebras (and how I would eat them up) since, due to the rivalry, AND as St. Mark’s mascot shows (a lion btw), I was just following the food pyramid…and I’m pretty sure lions eat up zebras </p>
<p>And to give even further proof of our friendly rivalry: <a href=“St. Mark's School - Groton Day 2009 - YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwPG_BZEfTU</a></p>
<p>You can even ask the OP, he’ll concur with what I said, right * zebra *?:)</p>
<p>@JB, really? You would answer an adult that way? I hope most St. Markers are more respectful.</p>
<p>JoshByron hasn’t arrived on campus yet. I’m sure he’ll adapt to the local culture very quickly.</p>
<p>The Groton/St. Mark’s rivalry is very fun. It’s a respectful rivalry. I don’t think I’ve heard a St. Marker shout “Groton S*****,” or anything of that sort. There are lots and lots of jokes about eating zebra meat, though, and the entire campus looks forward to the Groton Weekends.</p>
<p>On Facebook, you can take a look at St. Mark’s page. For the spring Groton Games, the school posted a very sweet picture of a lion and a zebra, captioned “Forbidden Love.” [St</a>. Mark’s School - MA’s Photos - Wall Photos | Facebook](<a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...)</p>
<p>The remark was completely fine, we have a great friendly rivalry between the schools.</p>
<p>Now let’s get the thread back on topic</p>
<p>…and this is why I hate College Confidential. People get offended for the slightest things - I was just raising awareness about the friendly rivalry between the two schools, since this thread IS about Groton. And I didn’t know Alexz was a grown up (I did realize her username contained ** MOM **, but I just figured it was derived from one of those Your Mom jokes…sorry then Alexz. :)</p>
<p>And I agree with the OP, let’s get the thread back on topic.</p>
<p>Bump bring on the questions</p>
<p>I am just wondering, how is the workload? i hear a lot of rumors saying that it is really hard but then i also hear people say that as long as u stay caught up you will be fine. I am entering as a freshmen and I am kind of worried about this</p>
<p>it IS hard, but as long as you stay caught up you’ll be fine… haha that’s the way it is with all top schools. i’ve heard that groton’s academics are gruelling but they staff are way too wise to set it at a level that students are incapable of handling.</p>
<p>don’t procrastinate, i’m sure you’ll be fine.
(PS, this is also where course placement comes in handy!)</p>
<p>Freshman year was sort of hard. Sometimes the workload was insane other times very very easy, it kind of goes in waves.</p>
<p>Just stay on top of things but don’t forget to develop your social life too</p>