Academic Pressure At Andover vs Other Elite Prep Schools?

sunnyschool
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:13:57 +0000

I’ll give an example (from another school)…So one girl in my DS English class was stating she is “so tired” because she spent THIRTY (30) HOURS on a paragraph assignment! My son said it took him a half hour; 45 min max. He got an A-. So some of it is working hard vs. working smart; and some could be language proficiency in this case (the girl is not native English speaker). Now, I did notice the girl was on the winning Math team so she must be smart. But taking 30 hours to write a paragraph is not going to work forever. So my point is, some of this depends on difficulty of classes, study habits, and how smart and efficient the student is with school work. And, sometimes you can’t get an A in everything as I suspect some students are conditioned to do. That is why colleges like kids with extracurriculars.