<p>Footwear: sneakers, flip flops, etc. are fine for daily and classroom wear. For seated meals and other dress up events, footwear is more restrictive and I believe sneakers are not allowed. </p>
<p>Shorts: Shorts are quite popular and students will try to stretch out the season, wearing them well into the fall and starting up again in early spring. They just aren’t practical for snowy, cold NH winters.</p>
<p>Thanks Creative. Let’s hope the upgraded dam handled the storm well. It would be a shame to have flooding right before school starts.</p>
<p>Seeing the VT flooding made me think of SPS. Hoping they were spared the worst…</p>
<p>Was on campus today. All looks ok.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update…glad to hear that!</p>
<p>Creative, thanks! You are doing a fantastic job in answering the Q’s! Sorry I have been away, but thrilled that I am no longer needed. Between a move & construction, I have not posted in almost 2 months. But I am still here if I can help out.</p>
<p>1 week until move-in day for new students! I hope everyone is excited!</p>
<p>D just received an email from her advisor. The excitement is definitely building! :)</p>
<p>How did everyone’s move-in day go?</p>
<p>SPS was the best time of my life. College just isn’t the same. Enjoy it guys!</p>
<p>One would think an applicant that spent hours on her SPS application, with straight As and significant activities, a 98% on the SAT, and who was a legacy at SPS would get at least the courtesy of a letter from SPS admissions informing her of the school’s decision for 2011 admission. Guess again! Obviously, we know the answer by now. We just think it would have been a nice gesture to inform us.</p>
<p>bamadad - Did you and your daughter know that decisions were posted online and available on March 10th? Although, I have never heard of it happening before, it is possible that her file got lost… If it was me, I would have called the admissions office asap after March 10th so the issue was looked into. Did you ever place that phone call, and if so, what did they say?</p>
<p>Everyone gets a letter. Maybe your local mailman is the problem.</p>
<p>I know no school is perfect, but My d visited and interviewed at several schools that she ended up not applying to. They all called us after the application deadline to inquire if we were still applying, so I think that if you have shown interest at a school they do try to make sure an applicant has not fallen by the wayside. It must have been a mix up. Have you called the admissions office?</p>
<p>The other piece that’s strange here is that the SPS admissions office personally calls legacy parents the night before decisions come out, if the child is waitlisted or rejected…at least they did in 2010.</p>
<p>I’m not going to bite on this one.:)</p>
<p>Hockeykid: what year and what college are you in? </p>
<p>I wish I could apply to SPS… Brother speaks in high regard of it (he didn’t go there, knows from friends).</p>
<p>Bamadad’s story is just too incredible to be believed. A legacy parent too timid to pick up the phone to call the school when notification didn’t arrive on 3/10? And, even harder to believe, a teenaged applicant so passive that he or she also sat back and did nothing when no letter arrived??? Sorry, don’t believe it - my kid would have lit a fire under me if I didn’t pick up the phone and call a school that failed to send notification!</p>
<p>Drop off day with our son went great! The school and its admissions team have the process so nailed down. We really had a blast and he is thrilled.
Wait until the homework starts, I told him…</p>
<p>Our drop off also went very well despite a rainy morning on Thursday. By afternoon, the sky had cleared and the weather has been excellent since then. Apart from the construction areas, the campus was spectacular. Anyone know how many bridges are on campus? I lost count!</p>