Advisor to Student Ratio

twinsmama
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:12:17 +0000

At Mercersburg, I think adviser (I don’t know why they spell it this way but they do) groups have 5 or 6 kids. Advisers are assigned on the basis of dorm, so students change advisors if they change dorms. Not all of the faculty members assigned to a dorm live there, but some do (at least one on each floor). Every evening, a faculty member sits in the dorm lobby (often with a prefect or two) and checks students in. My children’s advisers have been responsive and helpful (really, really helpful in the case of actual problems that cropped up along the way), and there were a couple of times when I thought a child sounded sad and asked an adviser to check on him or her and they immediately did so and my child thought I was out of my mind.