St. Paul's School Concord NH

<p>haha yeh, those are usually needed in high level degrees... im planning on doing structual engineering, so theoretical mathematics and high level mathematics are pretty much what the whole job is.</p>

<p>Straight HH grades are pretty tough to swing especially for a 3rd Former. My son has pointed out some students who are high achievers making mostly HH marks. However, they are usually 5th and 6th Formers. Students in the higher forms have fewer sports obligations and they are "seasoned" in knowing how to study. </p>

<p>Our goal for our son this year has not been on grades but on getting organized and time management skills. Good grades follow good habits. Being away from home asks a lot from a 14 year old. Mom and Dad are not around to crack the whip.</p>

<p>Haha yeah. The reason I am sticking with this track is to keep my opportunities open till college. I currently want to go into Biotech, Medicine, Business, or possibly Civil/Chemical engineering (though Business/Biotech/Medicine are most likely). </p>

<p>For the Business I would be done now, but I'll keep progressing through HS to keep options open.</p>

<p>1v1, I'm a girl.</p>

<p>yeh, i was considering corporate litigation for a while, but i am generally more interested in mathematics</p>

<p>How does the less than HH play with colleges? I know that St. Paul's has great college placement, but I would think the colleges have some type of base line for what is acceptable for students from St. Paul's.</p>

<p>If you want to go to an ivy, forget about HH's and get yourself into the first boat!!</p>

<p>I have the same question as emdee.</p>

<p>I do not know about emdee's question, but I promise you that very very few get all HH's. Realize that you are already in the academic equivalent of an AP school, not just a class. Colleges know what SPS is and know how prepared their students are. I sort of likes catg's comment, GO ROW...... or whatever. But hands down SPS has the best crew course of anyone.</p>

<p>Creative1: I will send you a detailed answer to your question.</p>

<p>I am really going to encourage d to try out for crew, whatever school she ends up at.</p>

<p>Ok, Im not expecting all HH, but to stay in the top 50% of class, is it pretty much HH and H?</p>

<p>If you have a 3-2 (3 HH's and 2H's) you are in the top third of your class</p>

<p>If you have a 2-3 you are in the top half of your class</p>

<p>Obviously this varies year to year but I think it holds true.</p>

<p>Most of the kids that get all HH's study all day long and don't have that much of a social life. But the superb students are the ones who manage to get all HH's while actually having a life.</p>

<p>Ok, so pretty much aim for nothing lower than Honors. Thanks. I think I may just lie about how good I am at spanish so I can have a break in my schedule</p>

<p>I can assure you, lying like that will not work. Teachers can tell how good you are. They will just move you.</p>

<p>Well it's worth a shot, ill see if I can do like advanced spanish 1 or 2..the advanced part should trick my parents.</p>

<p>As I am hitting my mid-life crisis, it amuses me to see kids know exactly what career they want to go into -- few adults I know have had a straight career path. </p>

<p>Crew -- my 8th grade son just started at his school. It is a big love/hate relationship now. I had no knowledge of the sport before this. Man, those kids get fit quick. And my son is finally asleep at a decent time because the training wipes him out</p>

<p>This post is a response to Winterset, who was kind enough to PM me with info on buses from St Paul's to Boston and NYC: THANK YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS!!</p>

<p>its prefered. my interviewer at andover was on crew, he was like 6'5 and my interviewer was the crew coach and he said he loves tall people becuz it gives you leverage on the oars, i'm assuming</p>

<p>you still can, but it requires extra strentgh... my dad did crew in college and hes only 5'7... luckily i didnt catch his short gene haha, im hoping to be a good 5'11 in a year from now =)</p>