<p>We are Canadian and we received financial aid…so yes, internationals can!</p>
<p>Congratualtions! I did not know SMS offer financial aid to international students.
Do you know if they offer just to Canadian or to other nationalities as well?</p>
<p>Sorry, I do not know…</p>
<p>cdnhockeymom and periwinkle, I hope you had a great time today if you came to SMS for the parents week. We enjoyed and had a great time yesterday and today there. It was awesome!</p>
<p>We were happy to see how well our child has adapted to this new situation. It was also great to meet so many families.</p>
<p>We were happy to see the same although my son is truly amazed at the amount of homework and how many truly bright and inspiring students there are at SMS</p>
<p>St. Mark’s traditional athletic rival is the younger Groton School. St. Mark’s high school football rivalry since 1886 with Groton School is one of the oldest athletic rivalries in the United States, following the Andover-Exeter rivalry. The two schools have met in regularly scheduled athletic contests for more than a century. St. Mark’s traditionally has a “Groton Day” celebrating this rivalry, just as Groton has a “St. Mark’s Day” with the same sorts of festivities.</p>
<p>On Nov. 14, SMS Lions take on the Groton Zebras! and they will honor retiring faculty member and football coach Henry Large during the half time. he began working at St. Mark’s in 1965. He is the heart and soul of the tradition of St. Mark’s football, having coached in the program for all but three of his 43 dedicated years in Southborough.</p>
<p>But, SMS football team is not that strong, and I am afraid that they may not be able to win against groton. But, who knows? anything can happen in the game with the rival. If it snows, the game becomes even more exciting! The following video was taken during the last year’s Groton Day.</p>
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<p>[St</a>. Mark’s School: Live](<a href=“http://www.stmarksschool.org/documents/live/video.aspx?podcastNum=Academics]St”>http://www.stmarksschool.org/documents/live/video.aspx?podcastNum=Academics)</p>
<p>I heard that SMS is preety good at Basketball. Is that right? They have won New England Championships for last a few years in a row. Correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>Basketball team is supposed to be very good. My son told me the team just had a team scrimmage between all their own players and there were 20 scouts from various universities there…just at a scimmage between st marks own teammates! I saw one new student at registration that was 7 feet!</p>
<p>What is the acceptance rate for this school? I didn’t find on their website.</p>
<p>Last year. it was 29%. This year, I heard it is a bit more than 30% from one school official. In the past, it has been between 25% and 36%. I met a few parents during orientation, and I heard that some students were picked up from waiting list. However, usually it is not easy to expect any pickup from waitlist.</p>
<p>Hey everyone,
I recently graduated from St. Mark’s and if you have any questions feel free to ask or PM me. If it helps, my advisor all 4 years was Ms. Behnke the director of admissions, so I would talk to her a lot about the whole admissions process.</p>
<p>How religious or Catholic is St. Marks?</p>
<p>It’s Episcopalian, not Catholic.</p>
<p>I was looking at the course catalogs and didn’t see many high level math courses. How strong is their science and math program?</p>
<p>It is my understanding that St Marks has a very strong math department. It offers honours courses and 3 AP math classes as well as a class that can be designed around very advanced math students. It also has the math institute which you can read about on their website. As for Science, they also offer AP classes and apparently the AP chem pretty much guarantees you a 5 on the AP exams because it is such a challenging course at St Marks. They had 2 students last year chosen to compete in the US National Chemistry Olympiads - only 18 other students were chosen nation wide.</p>
<p>cndhockeymom is completely right. The math department is very strong. If you somehow finish your requirements early and still wish to pursue mathematics, you can meet with the Director of Studies and the head of the math department and create an ISP (independent study program)</p>