<p>Uggh! Realized waaayyy too late that I would be at NMH on Friday afternoon for a game AND I didn't have anyone's phone numbers with me!!! </p>
<p>I hope none of you hear are one of the 3 girls soccer players that thought it was very funny to walk in the middle of the road, look at me and NOT MOVE. </p>
<p>Hope Parent's Weekend went well there. I hadn't been on camput in a few months and was surprised at how much more contruction is being started even!</p>
<p>I feel bad... I'm not applying to NMH anymore. My mom refused to add it, since we're spending extraordinary amounts of money and time anyway.</p>
<p>It seems like forever since I've had time to post. We really enjoyed parent's weekend. The friendliest of the kids and the parents just amazes me. </p>
<p>Saer-that's too bad, but I'm sure you'll find a great school. Good Luck!</p>
<p>NMH has has some wild admission swings in the past years. Because the school compressed from 1100 students to 600, the Senior and Junior classes were huge. This left very few seats for incoming freshman and sophomores. Competition for admission was insane, particularly among day students (turning down CTY/ 95%SSAT students. Now those freshman are juniors who saw an influx of new Juniors to even out the class sizes (many of who were the size of houses and live in Overton - the jock dorm.) 2008 saw a huge influx of Arts oriented freshman, in response to the fabulous Arts center (paid for by Citibank).</p>
<p>Continuous dining, and removal of tray was part of the Green movement. The idea was that if you knew you could come back later, you would not pile so much on your plate - and then toss it in the garbage.</p>
<p>In addition to the continuous dining in Alumni hall, breakfast is served in a cafe at the main classroom building. The founder of Friendly's restaurants donated it, on the rationale that students with breakfast retain more, but hauling up to the dinning Hall was not a priority amongst high school sleepyheads. Another example of NMH really being tuned in to student needs. .....now if they would just do something to breath life into the science department. If you're not asian, you're not welcome. (which is enforced by the asians, not the teachers.)</p>
<p>What do you mean "if you're not Asian, you're not welcome." Just curious because of the high Asian population.</p>
<p>I asked D if this was true about the science department and she said she doesn't know, she's never been in there. She's not Asian.</p>
<p>I'm trying to understand how a subset of a student body can control (and enforce?) who has access to an major academic department...could it be the result of something they cooked up in the lab during off-peak hours?</p>
<p>and how about the Asian-teachers? how do they weigh in?</p>
<p>I don't know if Toadstool is a student who has had a bad experience or what. My two sons both disagree; one graduated in 2003 and did lots with the sciences. He just graduated with a degree in Research Meteorology. While at NMH, his workjob for three years was working with a professor in the science department. My younger son also says he does not see any partiality. Not sure where this is coming from.
BTW nyleco, I don't think there are any Asian instructors in the science dept.</p>
<p>I also disagree with the "Asian" comment. My son is a top science student and having a great experience in the physics class that he is taking.</p>
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<p>Just a point, this is really not true. When they "downsized" from 1100 to 600, they did it over the course of a few years. So, yes, there were differences in class sizes while they did it, but that did not mean the incoming classes were smaller than the target which the above statement says.<br>
There was and is not "insane" competition for admissions, even among day students. Yes, day student competition was greater as it was for all admissions - that would of course happen when you downsize from 1100 to 600.<br>
In addition, it would not be the "current junior class" that would have been seriously affected - it would have been several years ago - like 5 or so since that's about when the campuses merged.</p>
<p>the boarding school sight says that average SSAT at NMH is 68? Are you joking? Thats horrible. I though NMH was relly nice</p>
<p>^^If you intend to seek admission to NMH I recommend that you spend some time studying your spelling, grammar and punctuation. As "horrible" as the school is your current effort won't cut it.</p>
<p>Bene, I think the thing to remember is that your scores won't get you in anywhere. I'm not saying an 83% is bad(You improved to a 90% overall to give you credit), BUT I'm saying that ANYONE'S scores won't get them anywhere if they act like that. Didn't you go to kindergarden? They probably told you that if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all. I break that rule alot, but I really try to respect what other people have a passion about. You have a passion about Middlesex I believe and you really want to attend... Wonder if I just trashed Middlesex? Wouldn't you think, "Wow they don't know what they are talking about..." Well. I just felt that way. I think NMH is a great school, but it isn't the right fit for me. I really require a really active, large enviroment. I really don't have a passion for art or language and I believe that NMH really focuses on those two pursuits inparticular. That being said, I didn't apply. I still fell in love with the school.</p>
<p>Well said, italian. This family may very well be looking very closely at NMH next year (kids with 90+ SSATs, CTY, etc)</p>
<p>My daughter and I visited NMH and really liked it. But she has a concern about the block schedule. She loves languages and is worried about taking a semester off from studying them. Has anone else had this worry?</p>
<p>My sons both attended NMH and had (have....one son is currently a sophomore) no issues. My youngest just completed Honors Sp. III and did well with no "gap" problems. Many public hs now use block scheduling as it mimics a college schedule. NMH does offer extracurricular type courses for students who would like a refresher and there is lots of individual help available from the instructors as well.</p>
<p>Her concern is not of forgeting or being unprepared rather one of missing a subject that she loves. The extracurricular activities sound like a possibility but I'm not sure that would be enough. So far in school, languages have been the one area that she has really enjoyed, and the idea of not studying one for six months makes her wonder if this schedule would work.</p>
<p>I understand what you are saying; my son also loves languages and does wish he had been able to take his language two semesters in a row so he could move on to another language more quickly. I believe in the junior and senior years this will be possible, but it is difficult in the freshman/sophomore years because of the other required courses. One positive thing is that there is so much diversity, your daughter will be able to "sample" many different languages.<br>
I would call and ask for the number of one of the academic deans and see if there is something that could be worked out.</p>