<p>thank you winterset!
i happen to know a girl who wants to go to DA next year
she. is. atrocious.
she looks like a rat
and she talks like a 5 year old (she's almost 14)</p>
<p>Chicky: No No. Play nice.</p>
<p>Sounds like my mother-in law...Ba Bump...(kidding)!</p>
<p>Moving aside... My second email on this site (pg 1) was the press-release about admissions from last spring. Worth rereading for perspective. Last year they accepted 25 people from the waitlist. Just a data point for those interested.</p>
<p>Thanks for defending SPS, Winterset. People are crazy!</p>
<p>Are there weekend activities off campus, other than trips into Concord?</p>
<p>sure! What do you want to do? Nascar races in September, Lots on concerts in Manchester (see Verizon Arena), Outing Club if you like camping or hiking, fishing, hunting, Skiing, OKAY wait, sorry you won't want that...... SO </p>
<p>Take a bus to Boston (Concord</a> Coach* Lines: Concord NH-Boston & Logan Airport) (1hr. 20min), If you have friends or parents take a short weekend or long weekend anywhere you are invited. </p>
<p>In Concord, most of the best shopping is across the river (mall, movie theaters, EMS, LL Bean, etc, etc), so do not look at downtown and think that is it. SPS runs a bus to the mall & downtown or you take a cab.</p>
<p>Obviously there are student organizations that do stuff also.</p>
<p>What are you interested in?</p>
<p>Boston is an hour south. Sailing or fishing for a weekend in Providence, Ri is only 2 hours south.Vermont's best skiing is not a bad drive either.
Remember, there are no 'day students' at SPS so everyone is brainstorming interesting local weekend getaways with the school vans.
Much to do if you have the drive to get it done.</p>
<p>I just joined and noticed the enthusiasm for the great image of the SPS admissions officers greeting you when you log in and get a CONGRATULATIONS!! Note that the Head of School/Rector Bill Matthews and his wonderful wife, Marcia are right in the middle joining in the fun!!
My daughter was also accepted for 4th form (10th grade). We are thrilled! She was also accepted at Loomis and will visit both to make her decision. Her sister is currently a 4th former at SPS and this one made need to do her own thing!</p>
<p>From what I have witnessed, most kids will stay on campus over the weekend, given classes and sports commitments on Saturdays. With a 6 day school week, the kids enjoy a little R&R and planned activities on campus or will go into Concord for shopping, movies, restaurant meal. Some kids will ski/snowboard on Sunday or make an occasional trip to Boston. Occasionally, students will an overnight home if they live close and may bring friends.</p>
<p>I am applying for grade 10 and am male andoverwarrior.</p>
<p>I SHALL MAKE IT OFF THE WAITLIST AT SPS :)</p>
<p>winterset this is the reasoning now that I have an expanded knowledge of these two schools.</p>
<p>If I were to continue playing tennis competitively and at a high level to enter into D1 College tennis, I'd have to go to SPS for their indoor courts. On the other hand I'll have to play my violin less and be less focused on that. </p>
<p>At Andover I would excel more in violin and less in tennis because it is a one semester sport... I can play squash but it is quite different.</p>
<p>I have also seen what creative1 says...offered my daughter a weekend in Boston and invite sps friends earlier this winter and while she was initially interested, there were things she wanted to get back (from hockey game) to on campus -- Inter-dorm play competitions, etc. and I think everyone stops by the Rectory at some point on a Saturday night for poppyseed bread and lemonade (it was soda and cookies when I was there!)</p>
<p>1V1: YES the poppyseed bread! Or a game of Scrabble with the Rector! </p>
<p>And I remember when Rector Oates Started sodas and cookies. Under Matt Warren it was a formal Tea by invitation, with your housemaster reminding you of proper tea and conversational etiquette before you went. Thank God for change! Now it is friendly and 'homey' not intimidating.</p>
<p>doesn't SPS have the most drugs?</p>
<p>Think we dealt with this. Certainly not true. Go back to post #174 by Hockeykid841 (a student at SPS) on this thread and then read forward. As he said there:</p>
<p>“There is pot at St. Paul's but what school doesn't have pot. The amount of kids who do drugs at SPS are few are far in between. I think that if people see 2 people get dced they figure everybody is doing it, however this is just not true.”</p>
<p>Then if you really want to be scared look at the Andover incident last fall. Three students arrested for felony cocaine possession, two are 18 and face federal prison terms! Now THAT is a problem.</p>
<p>Finally, Baltygolf, look at some of the schools you have been admitted to! I know several of them (I won’t disparage them by name) have REALLY BIG drug problems. Temptations are there for all teens, but SPS has a smaller problem than it’s peers (not larger). Be careful and mature wherever you go. </p>
<p>In general, SPS has an incredible combination of the brightest, most motivated and broadly talented students who do not have the degree of free time as most schools. As posters here have observed problems can escalate with schools that have day students, too little supervision, inadequate role models, or teens that do not have motivation. Enough said.</p>
<p>Just got my letter from SPS and I pretty much for full FA. All I have to pay is 3,000...so I'm for sure going now! And the letter was very personal...nice to know they wrote each one uniquely. Acceptance rate this year was 20% . The people that got in were 250 out of 1200.</p>
<p>So, admission stats are very similar to last year's numbers given Winterset's post#2 on this thread.</p>
<p>Congrats, mpicz and I wish you much happiness at SPS!</p>
<p>Thank you creative1...can't wait to get there.</p>
<p>We just got our SPS packet in the mail. My daughter is good at math and took Algebra this years and wants her current math teacher to recommend her for honors. I suggested she take regular Geometry and start out slowly so as to allow time to acclimate. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>If her current teacher recommends honors and SPS places her in honors based on the recommendation sheet and her transcript, I would go for honors. Your daughter can always move down to regular geometry after a few weeks to a month if it proves to be too much. She wouldn't be the only one, I promise, and it is easier to move down then up.</p>