<p>Does anyone have any experience with this program? My son has been accepted to start in the fall. He is now in 10th grade. He has been in a boarding school for the past two years. He loves living away at school, but the students at his boarding school aren't the most scholastic bunch. He is loves to learn and talk science. He wants to be around more 16 year olds that are like him. Is Simon's Rock AEP the answer?</p>
<p>Do a search for Simons Rock. Because it is a college, there are postings about it in many locations on cc. Here is a thread from this forum <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/229585-simons-rock-another-unconventional-possibility.html?highlight=simons+rock[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/229585-simons-rock-another-unconventional-possibility.html?highlight=simons+rock</a>. You could send a private message to atonunccia (sp?) who is a current student.</p>
<p>I’m a Simon’s Rock freshman; I can answer some questions, if you PM me.</p>
<p>I applied to SRC through the AEP and got a scholarship; I’ve only been here for a semester and a half, but I am positive that I’ve made the right choice. Students here just love to learn, and there are so many interests here that you end up learning a lot from each other. There’s also a lot of room to explore here, so it’s really cool to see the engineering major take an interest in literature, or for dancer to find a way to relate it to critical theory, and so on. From what you’ve said about your son, I think he’d really like it here.</p>
<p>Is there a possibilty of being accepted at second semster?</p>
<p>As in, entering the spring semester? Yeah! Students who enter during the spring semester are referred to as JAs (January Admits) That class size has varied from 5-15 in recent years, I think. Everyone’s usually really curious about them when first getting back from intercession because it’s a small school and by that time the fall semester freshmen gotten to know or at least become aware of almost everyone on campus, but there’s no stigma and they integrate as well as everyone else. </p>
<p>Still, the JAs seem to bond pretty tightly as a group, as the 5-15 of them have their own miniature version of workshop week/orientation. They also generally their 3 seminar classes together because they’re a semester off of everyone else’s schedule. The seminar series consists of two semesters of First Year Seminar (I and II) and a semester of Sophmore Seminar the fall after that; thus, JAs end up taking First Year Sem I while the other freshmen are taking II, FYS II when everyone else is in Sophmore Sem, and Sophmore Sem the spring after the others.</p>
<p>With a slightly larger courseload, it’s possible to complete your AA or BA in 3 or 7 semesters, so most don’t end up finishing after a fall semester and having to wait until spring.</p>
<p>I’ve just figured out that JAs don’t take FYS I when they first get here; rather, they start with FYS II, but their class is a bit different because it’s still technically their first seminar. They do take it all together, though. </p>
<p>(This dawned on me when I realized that all of the JAs still had to attend the seminar lectures for all of the books we read, so they couldn’t really have been in FYS I while this semester’s lectures focus on the second set of books.)</p>
<p>fitfreak, my S has been accepted for the fall, too, and is also in 10th grade. We visited the school in November on their Discovery Day, and are going to visit again in a couple of weeks. Yee-haw!!</p>
<p>space cadet, I have a question for you, please! Are the beds extra-long twins? My kid is 6’3", and needs the extra length!</p>
<p>They call them ‘regular’ twins but I’m 90% sure they’re extra long. Regular sheets barely fit and repel themselves from the mattress anyway. I have a friend who’s 6’4" and he says he’s gotten comfortable with the beds, so I think your son will be fine :)</p>
<p>(Congratulations, by the way!)</p>
<p>Thanks, SCG!</p>