The students pick their own advisor and can stay with that advisor for all 4 years. This allows for a close relationship to develop with the student and potentially the parents. The advisor relationship is renewed every year, so the student has the option of finding a new advisor.
Each student is assigned an academic monitor. This person is focused exclusively on academics rather than the personal life. A new monitor is assigned every year.</p>
<p>This thread is off topic now. If you want more information about advisors, it would be best for you to start a new thread on this. Iâm sure you will get more responses that way.</p>
<p>I have been very happy with the advising system at SPS. Most of the studentâs are assigned an advisor who lives in or has some responsibility in their dorm. The advisor monitorâs the studentâs academic progress and social integration. Since the advisor typically lives in the dorm there is a lot of interaction with the student. My daughterâs advisor has been very responsive and proactive in addressing issues before they turned into problems. She is aware of who my dâs friends are and the type of activities she is involved in.</p>
<p>When d was applying I was most concerned about SPS because of the âfreedom with responsibilityâ (and conversely she was most attracted to the school because of âfreedom with responsibilityâ). It sounds like studentâs are left to do whatever they want. In reality the dorm advisers have been quick to recognize potential behavior and academic issues and have been aggressive in addressing potential problems. This can include requiring mandatory study hours and requiring early check. If a student skips (bags) or is habitually tardy their advisor is informed and they are placed on restrictions. For students with academic problems, I believe they are given an academic plan and help to get them on the right track. In the evenings the studentâs have to âtouch baseâ with the dorm advisor on duty at a specified time and let them know what they are doing that night. I think it would be hard for a student at SPS to fall through the cracks, the adults seem to closely monitor what is going on.</p>
<p>Very helpful, emdee. It sounds like our parent/child appraisal of âfreedom with responsibilityâ was similar to yours. Your feedback is encouraging. Actually, I think advisory is pretty critical to generating the highest quality graduates.</p>
<p>Im from South Africa and Im currently a Junior.</p>
<p>We dont use the 4.0 gpa system here.We convert everything into percentages.</p>
<p>But I get CâS and Bâs mainly.Which you could say is average but I participate in lots of athletics and Im being recruited by St Johnsbury academy and Canterbury(in Conneticut)</p>
<p>But the tuition fees are soo expensive are there any other great BSâS that anybody knows of that I contact.
I will be repeating my junior year so i can better my chance of receiving a scholarship to play football and do a major in business management.
UCLA is my dream school !</p>
<p>Is the first tier above the second tier? If it was a building or risers, the first tier would be lower than the second.</p>
<p>Which âraisesâ another question: what is the load-bearing limit for a tier? Do all tiers have the same load? Because, as I see it, boarding school tiers seem to have increasingly smaller (would that be âdecreasinglyâ) numbers of schools at each successive tier. That suggests more of a pyramid than a tier. And that, in turn, begs the question as to how it is possible to make such fine distinctions as you progress up (or, as I contend, down) through the tiers? Why is it necessary to make them at the top (or bottom, as the case may be) but not at the bottom (âŠor top)?</p>
<p>Finally, if youâre on the second or third tier and you trip, will you land on the first tier? And will it hurt?</p>
<p>newyorker: You confirm the Admissions Office warning that consultants should not be used in getting into Boarding School or College. Itâs apparent that your clientelle is mostly troubled kids who need remedial help. I know a school that stops at the 8th grade that sends 35 kids a year to Boarding School. I never hear anything but great feedback from these kids who love their Boarding School. The empirical evidence just does not back up your assertion of a bunch of miserable kids at B School.</p>
<p>This is a thread that had a life span from January 3 to January 11. It lived far too long at that. Then Bunts1 came to town and spammed several threads with a repeated cut-and-paste message about trying to get into BS from South Africa.</p>
<p>Itâs a ridiculous thread to begin with and thereâs really no need to engage people who quite rightly abandoned it several months ago.</p>
<p>Dâyer, how about putting swissbrat in her place, please. AndâŠwelcome back! It is great to be able to read your informed, informative, and witty posts again!</p>
<p>Sorry Dâyer but I dont see a problem what i just didâŠlast time i checked it wasnt illegal to copy and paste a message instea of wasting time and typing it again??</p>
<p>Bunts: I think Dyerâs point was that it would have been better to post just once, preferably in the Chances thread because most of the regular chatters here read all of the boards, and itâs tedious to read the same post over and over. Youâre new to the boards and probably didnât get thatâyou might want to spend some time reading past threads to get acclimated :)</p>
<p>@ Bunts1: No problemâŠit happens and youâre not alone. My point was that this thread â about tiers or something â had died a rightful and quick death. Iâm not sure what inspired you to find a thread that last saw activity on January 11 and ask your question (yet again), but thatâs not really what I was addressing. My comment was with the subsequent post that re-engaged on the silly subject that was originally discussed. I would be quite happy if the remainder of activity on this thread was directed towards addressing your post.</p>
<p>@ swissbrit: Doh! I think that could explain why the Amalgamated Miasma deal I was working on fell through last week.</p>
<p>I am curious - what kind of kids do you think is the best fit for the Hill School? I have no sense about its strengths and not much about its weaknesses either.</p>
<p>Iâm curious about the Hill School too. What I knew about the school is surely no longer relevant (circa the early 1980s), since they went co-ed in the late 90âs. From the alumni mag I saw recently, Iâm guessing that it is still fairly conservative? Iâd like to know if they still have sit down meals, Saturday classes, is the arch-rival still Lâville? How is the new Writing Center working out? Is the faculty on the youngish side or the oldish side? Has Pottstown been âgentrifiedâ?</p>