Academic Pressure At Andover vs Other Elite Prep Schools?

Happytimes2001
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:32:12 +0000

I’m not sure anyone can answer this question (unless we had about a dozen current students tackling it). Some kids are using the internet/phone as a distraction tool while other kids are going to be studying during the day in small pieces and have little work at night. We heard from a student that she had only about 1 hour max 2 hours per night. She seemed bright, focused and not a time waster. For my kid, writing takes a long time but the rest is attacked with a plan in mind. I think many kids are pushing the envelope based on parental pressures rather than intellectual curiousity but who knows? Maybe some just want the grades and so are willing to put in extraordinary hours of work. Either way, it seems like from our data collection that boarding schools have more assigned times for homework thereby reducing the perceived time to completion vs. the public schools (with their endless array of AP courses in which some kids chose 1 and others chose all). Impossible to tell until you get there, IMHO.