<p>Is there anyone on CC that either applied or was accepted to St. Andrew's?? There are almost NO posts about it, even though it is a great school. Is there anyone that currently attends or is planning to attend next year?</p>
<p>My friend Serena goes there and she's talked a lot about it on CC. I'll ask her to PM you or reply on this board (I'm seeing her tmrw).</p>
<p>Thank you! I have a lot of questions but not many people seem to know much about it, probably because it is not in the Northeast and is a smaller school.</p>
<p>Search for posts by "itsren"...that's my friend. She's a freshman there now.</p>
<p>My cousin goes there and he's staying with us this week. If you have any questions,*ask me and I'll ask him. :)</p>
<p>There is a frequent poster whose daughter is at St. Andrew's - grejuni? Great school. Doesn't get a lot of press here because it is smaller and not one of the big ones in New England.</p>
<p>Shelley, I did know that Grejuni's daughter was at SAS and her posts have been helpful. Many people on here care way to much about prestige and only talk about A/E, and the HADES schools. Most of the schools mentioned here are in New England but there are many good schools, like SAS, that are in other parts of the U.S.</p>
<p>My daughter is a Freshman (that's Third Former) at St Andrew's this year. Feel free to PM me if you have a private concern. Otherwise I am happy to share info about SAS on this thread.</p>
<p>I think there are two students on CC who were accepted to St Andrew's this year too.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks for the information. Are you counting me or no, because (so happyyyy) I was accepted also. =) =) =)</p>
<p>Congratulations on being accepted. (If you are 2et's daughter than I am counting you. Otherwise I was counting her daughter and another person who PM'd me.)</p>
<p>What are you interested in most about SAS?</p>
<p>No, I am not 2et's daughter, haha. I am a boy, actually, haha. Almost everything interests me at SAS! I was curious about whether I would take advanced classes or if most classes there would be advanced compared to other schools. I am interested in their athletics also and their arts and music programs.</p>
<p>Hmmm... to my above post, ignore how I said 'haha' in two consecutive sentences. That looks silly.</p>
<p>I have a friend whose going to go there next year. She's says it's better than Groton and Andover but i haven't heard much about it. Is this true?</p>
<p>It's hard to compare a schools like St Andrew's or Groton to Andover because of the big size difference. St Andrew's has less than 300 students while Andover is ?over 1100? I think big schools and small schools are really offering different experiences.</p>
<p>St Andrew's has top notch academics. That's what I can tell you. At a large school like Andover, you can have more variety of advanced classes, but at St Andrew's you can pursue an esoteric topic with individual study. The faculty are very involved and with a 4 or 5:1 they can work extensively with every student.</p>
<p>I have questions about St. Andrew's too. How are the music and the art departments? And what do the kids do on weekends? Also, how would one describe a typical St. Andrew's student?</p>
<p>I think Music is a strength at St Andrew's; I'm not so sure about Art. Right now some Studio Art majors are touring Italy for Spring break, so there are certainly opportunities. The art studios are great. The problem for my daughter, who is also very interested in art, is that she is interested in too many other things and there hasn't been any time in her schedule to fit art in. The Freshman all take an art survey course, but since my daughter was coming from an arts magnet Middle School, it wasn't as advanced as she was used to. My daughter says that if Visual Arts is "your thing" than it is a good program. If it's your second or third interest, you will have to sacrifice something to fit it in.</p>
<p>For music, I think about half the school plays an instrument. My daughter loves to sing and she is in a choral class that is for credit. There are music theory and music composition classes, there are opportunities for travel and for performances all through out the year. There are many different ensembles and singing groups that are both for credit and non-credit. In the place of a sport, the school allows the students to create an Independent Project, which some students use to pursue very advance, college level music training. The vocal program is of very impressive quality, and the music lessons are very easy to set up.</p>
<p>My daughter is home on break so I asked her about the weekend life: "there is a large student planning committee which plans 1 or 2 dances a month, there's always shopping trips to town, 10 different things like Sushi trips or whatever, one specialty thing like a trip to the beach or the Opera, maybe a poetry slam or karaoke night. There is always something to do on Saturday night. Classes on Saturday go until about 11. Sunday there is chapel either in the morning or evening. A lot of people catch up on sleep or take one of the town trips on Sunday. You can go home/away for weekends 4 times a semester (six for seniors) in addition to the long weekends and breaks - people go to each others houses if one of them lives nearby, some people stay at a faculty member's house, which sounds odd, but it gets you out of dorm-type obligations. With 100% boarding, the campus is never empty on weekends."</p>
<p>Typical student at SAS? -" everyone is academically motivated, but as time goes by, the students become very well rounded and pick up new interests. Kids don't stand out if by Junior year they are star soccer players, have paintings in the gallery and sing solos in a group. But not everyone starts this way; the school culture encourages this kind of development. If you have an interest that is not supported at the school like horse back riding or ice skating, you might really miss being able to pursue that. But as long as you are willing to do class work, you are going to be ok. If you look at the Senior class, all of them are very interesting and have about 20 things they are good at."</p>
<p>I really hope:
My daughter says: All the classes are pretty advanced. For math and science they split the classes up into honors and no honors. They will both be demanding, but honors will do more. For math and languages, there were placement tests in the summer. I ended up placing in to Pre-Calculus (Honors).</p>
<p>Sports: There best sports of every season are: Cross Country, Swimming and Crew. They win district conferences and compete well on state level. Crew is a little different because the schools they compete against are further away - but most of St Andrew's regattas are at home. These 3 sports are all big at SAS - with half the school involved.</p>
<p>Squash won big this year, baseball is good, soccer is ok, football is ok. Do have any particular sports you are interested in?</p>
<p>Grejuni has covered everything very well. </p>
<p>I agree, SAS is a an excellent school. My nieces and nephews have gone (and go) there and so I've followed this school for a few years. The elegant writings of the headmaster demonstrate the philosophy of this school--principle centered character--and they place this at the core of their purpose. In talking to many associated with SAS, they seem to be glad to be out of the New England BS school comparisons, but the school's statistics (outcomes) always places SAS towards the top of those lists.</p>
<p>Thanks Grejuni adn 2et, this is very helpful. D may visit this Spring. She loves music, and chorus, and cross country /track! Also the school is not too far from her cousins, so she would have somewhere to go on those weekends they can leave campus.</p>
<p>Thank you for all that information, Grejuni!</p>