I personally didn’t find the academics at hill super challenging, but i did find that there was more work. a lot of work. i also took a challenging course load, highest level non-calc math, highest level science for my grade, pre-ap honors french, and a philosophy course meant for upper forms. i personally didn’t find the work harder than my lps, it was actually easier, but there was tons more to do. the SP&D program is a lot of time, but it tends to be unstructured. The coach as a person is great, but a lot of people complained about the way he lead debate. I found STEM at hill to be way more rigorous than humanities. I haven’t heard of anyone being big in writing there. Not any specific writing programs I found tbh.
I urge you to go to revisit days.