<p>wow- these are such great answers. Thanks. My kid is a really passionate sailor, is an excellent student, is an avid reader, solid soccer player and has played in a steal drum band for the last two years although did not play this year due to scheduling issues. He has three younger siblings and during the summer we sail and visit islands around where we live. Lots of family time. He has great friends and is just solid. His teachers love him. So I am not saying he has no potential to be appealing to a BS school but the way the applications are set up, it just makes me realize that our reason from moving from downtown San Francisco to a rural east coast town was to have our kids grow up in a really simple slow paced childhood and it has been great but equally great is to give him now, the opportunity to be in an incredible environment during his high school years. I think he will transition well- although honestly, I have NO IDEA about the workload as he simply does not have a pile of homework every night. Our first steps are a) he is taking the SSAT’s this summer (just to determine how he tests) b0 identify some schools to look at and then perhaps by the eosummer, decide where to apply…???</p>