6th & 七年级入学

列出3个常见问题.

• How do you help my child get into High School?

  • Berkeley Hall's goal is not simply to get students into the best high school, but to get them into the best high school for them.
  • Since we spend two years getting to know “the whole child,” we are in a good position to help guide them there.
  • 我们的校长 meets with each individual family in the spring of 7^th 年级 to talk about the various high school options.
  • 我们的校长会见了8人^th 平地机s individually in the fall and conducts “mock interviews,” helping them to make the best of those all-important “first impressions.”
  • 我们的校长, 数学, and English teachers write comprehensive letters of recommendation, 关注“整个孩子”,” and participate in follow-up phone calls to each and every school to which students apply.
  • Every Berkeley Hall graduate gets into a high school, the majority of which are considered the top high schools in Los Angeles.

• 为什么中学是有益的?

  • The MS / Junior High students get to be the oldest, biggest students on campus
  • There is no pressure coming down from high school, forcing kids to act older and “cooler” than how they really are or feel
  • This is good developmentally AND creates an extremely important sense of self-confidence and self-awareness that helps them to make good choices when confronted with peer pressure in high school and beyond.
  • So much development and maturity takes place in Junior High that it is not always evident which high school is the best fit for a 6^th 平地机.
  • By choosing a K-12 or 7-12 school for your child in 6^th or 7^th 年级, parents are actually limiting their children’s options to go to a specific school and, 如果事情不顺利, they may find themselves having to go through the application and admission processes all over again.
  • 除了, children have a much better sense of who they are and what they really want and need by the end of the 8^th 比以往任何时候都高.

• How do you bridge the gap between 6th and 9th 年级s?

  • We have the unique opportunity to work with students on a highly individualized, 个性化基础为两年.
  • 我们弥合了6 .之间的差距^th 九年级及九年级^th 年级 – students come to us as elementary students and they leave as high-schoolers
  • We have a unique opportunity to make a deep and lasting impact in the lives of young adults during extremely vital, 易受影响的年
  • Since BHS is not attached to a high school, we are incentivized by the need to get our students prepared for a wide array of high schools – not just the one we could be attached to.