<p>One of my sons is graduating SPS this Spring. Any questions send me a pm.</p>
<p>Hi,
I’m a student applying to St. Paul’s for 3rd form! I’ve finally finished reading all 205 pages of this thread and it has been extremely helpful. Thank you winterset and everyone else who posted! SPS is definitely my first choice and I can’t wait for the results to come out this Saturday!:)</p>
<p>Hi,
I just finished reading most of the pages here (yes, yes, I’m not that diligent :P) and it has been super helpful!
I have been accepted to the fourth form, so I’d love to get to know others who are currently studying there/just got accepted (:</p>
<p>I got accepted and will be going this fall.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me a little bit about the varsity lacrosse program at SPS? My son has been accepted to SPS and lax is important to him.</p>
<p>Ith111 I just looked at their stats on the St. Paul’s website and last year their record was 7 wins and 11 losses.</p>
<p>@Blessemy which form will you enter?</p>
<p>I am attending third form. How about you?</p>
<p>Could someone rank the girls dorms from best to worst? I know it is somewhat based on opinion, but I’m just curious.</p>
<p>Thanks Livy. It’s definitely a tough league…I was wondering if anyone else Sarum, Friendlymom, eton dad, anyone currently there…have anything to add about boys lacrosse at SPS</p>
<p>My son was also admitted to Deerfield and Taft–tough choices but “liked” SPS best so trying to get a feel for the program.</p>
<p>Sorry lth111, I have no insight about boys lax.</p>
<p>As for girls dorms, students probably have specific feedback but there are all different factors that go into whether a dorm is “good”. According to my D the biggest issue is who else is in there, both the other new students and the upperclassmen. My D’s dorm is not very popular, but she loves it because there’s a really good group of girls in there now. </p>
<p>All that aside - Kehaya is the newest of the dorms and it has a completely different layout than any other. The down side is that it’s relatively isolated compared to the other dorms.</p>
<p>Thank you so much friendlymom! That was very helpful!</p>
<p>Chocolatefudge, my D was accepted to fourth form, still deliberating with herself what to do, we’ll visit on April 4. What about you?</p>
<p>New 4th formers, you’ll be in my D’s form. She’s already talking about how much she’s looking forward to getting a bigger form next year. So far she’s been very happy and seems to like her formmates very much - every class has a different dynamic and it looks like the Form of '16 has a good one.</p>
<p>As for dorms, while many schools groups students by grade, SPS has students from all 4 years together in the same dorm. There are 5 teachers per dorm (some live there and some don’t), each of which has an advisory group within the dorm. So you could be in any one of the boys/girls dorms on campus, not just one of a few. There’s a big variety in the housing; I’ll describe the dorms generally here:</p>
<p>Quad dorms - Brewster and Ford (girls) and Manville and Simpson (boys). Older dorms with a fairly large number of singles, some doubles, some connected singles. The dorms surround a central open space where students like to hang out in good weather. Close to the gym and Hargate (the art building).</p>
<p>Coit (everyone still calls it “the Upper”) - two girls dorms and a boys dorm. These are in the same large building as the food. Benefits are obvious… Plus, the Upper is one of the 3 locations on campus where cabs can pick up students and where pizza and other food deliveries are made. Close to the hockey rinks, but a hike to gym, chapel and classroom buildings.</p>
<p>Kehaya/Drury - Kehaya is girls and Drury is boys. Feels isolated because of location relative to lake and in a grove of trees, but actually just a short walk to the Upper. Drury is an older dorm with large rooms. Kehaya is a new dorm with an unusual layout - instead of the normal one bathroom per floor, there are connecting bathrooms between pairs of rooms.</p>
<p>Kittredge/Nash - These are right next to each other, basically adjacent to the library. It’s just about the most convenient location on campus. Nash (boys) is an older dorm with big rooms. Kitt (2 girls dorms and 1 boys dorm) was built in the '70s or '80s and has 3 dorms off a central hallway. Each dorm has the rooms grouped around a central common room. </p>
<p>Conover 20/Middle/Armour/Foster - I grouped these together because they’re all located on the “other” side of the Chapel from the rest of the campus, but otherwise they’re not a unit in any way. Con 20 (girls) is another 70s/80s vintage building and is actually 2 dorms, so it has a lot of people. Armour and Foster are both boys’ dorms and both older buildings. Armous is pretty big- it used to have both the infirmary and a small dorm, now it’s all a dorm. Middle is the white clapboard building that you can sometimes see behind the chapel in photos. </p>
<p>You can give information about yourself for the roommate matches and I think you can even request a roommate, but you can’t request a specific dorm, so I don’t know how useful this description is. Current or former students, feel free to add or correct anything I’ve said here.</p>
<p>Wow, thank you so much friendlymom! It’s so nice to have insight on St. Paul’s while making my decision. Also, for all admitted students, did you get your packages from St. Paul’s in the mail yet??? I received a few letters from them but not the package that I received from other schools.</p>
<p>@Tibetan </p>
<p>me too! I was accepted into fourth form and will be revisiting April 4th-5th.</p>
<p>@friendlymom thanks so much! now i’ll know what to look for as I choose my dorms :3</p>
<p>@livy2462 same. I got the letters and everything, but the package didn’t come yet</p>
<p>Not received any package yet, only the acceptance letter.</p>
<p>chocolatefudge, would be fun to be able to recognize you on the 4-5th. R u boy or girl? In any event, 4th formers are only 48 total, we should be able to connect…</p>