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Luckily for boarding schools, they are not ranked in the same way as
colleges in the US are ranked (or should I say in the US News and
World Report ?!). Education professionals, however, know that it is
not as easy to be accepted at Exeter, for example, as it is at
St.Gertrude High School. Nevertheless, both schools offer curriculum
challenges to their students.
SSAT cutoffs might indicate which schools are more academically
selective, but numerical evaluations do not consider all the life
style features which make one school wonderful for a particular
student and another less so. The match of student to school is a
critically important factor. For example, a student interested in an
equestrian program might consider one of the most rigorously
academic schools a poor match because there is no riding.
Enjoy your time in the school you select, and consider yourself
lucky to benefit from the challenge of a private education. Even the
best public schools often have to cram 28 students in a math class.
In a 45 minute period, that gives each student about 1.6 minutes of
individual teacher time. Most private schools keep classes and
faculty-student ratios small and manageable.
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