NMH vs St. Marks

smski
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:30:45 +0000

I was big into the classics too! I managed to graduate with a classical diploma! Lord knows how I managed it haha.

okay.
your freshman year the load is 6 classes because you take a seminar class, but if you’re going to be a repeat 10th grader then you’ll only have 5 classes.

FA tends to be pretty generous I think. I wasn’t on it, but a lot of my friends were. sorry I can’t be a bigger help about it.

Yes you have to do “something” in the fall, winter, and spring. I myself wasn’t athletic but I still participated in the sports by being a manager. What you can do as a sophomore if you don’t really want to play sports is do the play (either act in it or do tech work) or be a manager so you can still experience the athletic aspect of the school but not play the sport. I think it’s hard to manage as a new sophomore but I’m not sure. There are clubs you can join and different positions you can apply for extracurricular wise.

We have thirds, JV, and Varsity for most sports, and IIIs is the least competitive.

It is a bit of a challenge but depending on whether or not you’ve done at least a year of latin at the point you’re at now you should be able to manage to get it. What I did was take latin I my freshman year, latin II my sophomore year, latin III my junior year and then greek I my junior year and greek II my senior year. I absolutely adore the classics dept at SM. I had Dr. Hartnett (the department head) for Latin I, Latin II, Greek I, and when I played golf he was the rec coach so I saw him a lot. He wrote my college recs for me. Mr Conti is also a really great teacher. They both are extremely intelligent men and great teachers. They lead the Classics trip to Italy in March and are honestly better than any tour guide I have ever had. They know so much about everything classics-wise! (my latin III teacher left SM after I graduated so talking about him won’t do too much…)

The art program is pretty impressive I think. You are required to take an art credit before you graduate whether it be Ceramics, Studio Art, Sculpture, Drama, or participate in the Chorus (if you’re part of the choir you have the opportunity to do the choir trip- they went to Spain and Germany while I was at SM). They also offer the APs for the art classes. However, if you get past the AP level and are still interested in doing something with art then you can create an independent study for it.

The science and math courses are very strong. Your first year at SM you are required to take physics (unless you already have a credit for it). Since you’ll be a sophomore you are required to take one year of a lab science, however if you are interested in taking other science courses they have a lot. They seem to be offering a lot more for this and next year then they did even last year. The math program is pretty strong as well. We have the Math Institute at SM that is led by Dr. Tanton, but unfortunately I don’t know too much about that since I’m not really a math person haha.

I hope I answered most of your questions. If you have any more feel free to ask them! I loved SM and would love to help out any future St. Markers =)