Questions - Exeter?

<p>thanks! 10mchar</p>

<p>I’m on spring break, and now have more free time to answer questions…
All of you who’ve gotten in…congratulations! Feel free to ask anything :)</p>

<p>(& any of my fellow Exonians on here…help answering would be much appreciated!)</p>

<p>Can you eat healthily in the dining room?</p>

<p>I’m the parent asking this question. My daughter already is tri-lingual. I’d like her to do the classics program. Can she take modern language (her writing needs to be improved in one of her 3 languages) while taking the Greek and Latin?</p>

<p>Cdgni,
I’m very familiar with the Classics program at Exeter, so I’m glad you asked the question.
If your daughter is coming in as a prep, she will not be able to take more than one language (unless she decides to take Latin as her ELECTIVE in addition to the regular language requirement.)</p>

<p>Preps are required to take 6 credit courses their first year (math, english, language, science, elective, and health; I didn’t count sports.) Health is a year long course, and preps will finish this requirement by the end of their first year. </p>

<p>In the 10th grade, students have one less course commitment than the year before, now that they’ve met the health requirement. Some students, however, choose to “double up on science,” which is basically taking two science courses, one of which is taken during the period that would’ve been taken by Health the year before. </p>

<p>I doubt there is such a thing as "DOUBLE LANGUAGING’ but I am pretty sure that students can choose to AUDIT an extra language course in their 10th grade year, if they’ve met the health requirement from the year before.
If you are set on having your daughter go through the Classics program at Exeter, I would recommend that she sign up for Latin as her main language and take it her four years at Exeter. She can, then, audit the modern language course in her 10th grade year and improve whatever area she needs. (But the modern language course wouldn’t show up on the transcript, since she would be auditing it.) </p>

<p>I don’t know if this helped much, but feel free to PM me if you have any more
questions about classics.</p>

<p>hi hannahlove16, my kid just got accepted to PEA !
could you please clarify what you said earlier about homework load? Up to 75 mins per subject per day sounds like a lot, that’s potentially 6 hours per day? Or is it not really every day for each subject, since some classes are only 4 times per week? Also, how would you physically fit this much homework time in a day, don’t you have classes until early evening ? Could you describe, on a typical day, how you can manage this? This would be really helpful - thanks so much in advance !</p>

<p>I thought they only allowed you to sign up for 6 classes if you were a prep.</p>

<p>Hi y’all experts in the BS app process! I have created a new thread “Prep for Prep.” I would appreciate if you can post your insights and expert advice on the “Prep for Prep” thread. Thank you.</p>

<p>cdgni - Yes! You can eat healthily in the dining hall. Exeter seems to be emphasizing healthy choices…the salad bar is always open, and most of the hot entrees are healthy and can fit most dietary needs.</p>

<p>Do you want your daughter to just be a part of the classics program, or try to receive the classics diploma? She may choose to audit a second language (instead of an elective) if she wishes to. However, for a classics diploma, it may take her longer to meet the level requirements, depending on her current level of Greek/Latin.</p>

<p>prepclassof82 - Congratulations to both you and your kid!</p>

<p>Teachers are technically allowed to give between 45 and 75 minutes of homework each night, but most times you won’t get that much. Certain classes, especially math, I find take a lot less time. Also, as you said, classes like history and English meet 4 times a week, so you rarely find yourself with 75 minutes of 5 classes worth of homework.</p>

<p>While it can sometimes be hard to find time to actually finish homework the night given, I sometimes wake up early and finish it in the morning, or work ahead over weekends if I know I’m going to have a busy week. </p>

<p>beachpotato - Technically, as a prep, you are required to take a science, math, language, and English. In addition, you can choose to take an elective (history, art, etc.). You are also required to take health and PE or a JV/Varsity sport.</p>

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<p>I don’t know the difference between the classics program and the classics diploma. I assumed if she received the diploma, she would have been part of the program. Can you be enrolled in the program and not receive the diploma?</p>

<p>I took two years of German at my school, but as a two-year student, I am required to take two consecutive years of the same language at Exeter. I thought about taking Greek, but is the class in Classical Greek or Modern Greek? (I would rather take modern.)</p>

<p>Also, I’m unsure about sports. Is anyone on the Exeter cross country team? Other than cross country, I don’t think I’ll be in any competitive sports. How are the club sports and how do they work?</p>

<p>cdgni - I was assuming you meant just taking Latin or Greek as being “part of the classics progam”…I’m sorry if this isn’t what you meant! I don’t know the exact number, but only a handful of Exonians receive the Classical Diploma each year…it requires at least one year of Greek, and completion of Latin until 430 (4th year if you start at the introductory level), or 411 (if you choose to take the accelerated path)…</p>

<p>musisat - I’m not sure whether it’s Classical or Modern Greek…sorry! You could probably find that information on Exeter’s website. Club sports are offered from lower year (anyone besides preps, who take PE, or “prep spaz”). I have no experience with them…but from what I’ve heard, its just playing recreationally.</p>

<p>The Greek we offer is classical Greek.</p>

<p>Club sports are… very relaxed sports :slight_smile: They meet just four times a week (no Wednesdays or Saturdays), usually for about 50 minutes or so. They’re really designed to make sure that you work out somewhat regularly, but they’re not competitive at all (with some exceptions, like club basketball).</p>

<p>So, if the junior athletic program is “prep spaz”, would club sports be “Club Spaz”? I rather like the sound of that…Club Spaz.</p>

<p>I like the way the PE requirements are set up, personally. I imagine that for some kids, making the JV team by senior year is quite an accomplishment.</p>

<p>Question: I remember reading that Andover had a “red flag” program that would alert a student’s teachers, advisors, etc, if they were falling behind. Does Exeter have any kind of similar program? How well do those kids who have never really had to work at school to do well adapt to the increase demands at Exeter?</p>

<p>Yes, there’s something of a “spaz” flavor to club sports :)</p>

<p>There isn’t an automatic “red flag” program I’m aware of, but teachers are usually very good at getting in touch with advisers as soon as they detect a problem; advisers, in turn, will talk to the kids and solicit help from our study skills specialist, Deans, counselors if appropriate, etc. Any teacher or adviser with concerns can also request at any time an Adviser/Teacher meeting about a kid, i.e., a meeting of all the kid’s current teachers with the adviser, a Dean, and a counselor. This usually makes for a very valuable exchange of information and good thinking about how to help the kid succeed. Students who struggle may also be asked to take our Study Skills course, designed to give kids extra help with, well, study skills.</p>

<p>how/when do you figure out:
a) what classes you are taking
b) what dorm you are in??</p>

<p>Classes in late April. Dorm placement not until mid- to late-August.</p>

<p>thanks so much! so how do you determine what classes you are supposed to take?</p>

<p>Last year new students were assigned temporary advisers, i.e., experienced faculty members with whom they could discuss their classes. I’m not sure if that’s how we’re doing it this year as well. Meanwhile you can start looking at the catalog and think about what electives you’re interested in (i.e., what you want as your fifth class besides Math, English, Science, and Language–well, your sixth class including Health if you’re a prep or lower). Some combination of History, Religion, Computer Science, and Art (over the three terms) is what you’re looking for.</p>

<p>are you allowed to take 6 classes after your prep year?</p>