Are there different admission requirements at Simon’s Rock than at Bard High School Early College?
BHSEC is a screened school, which means that students need to come and take a two hour writing and math assessment. If they do well and have at least an 85 average, they are invited to an interview. Roughly one out of three interviewed prospective students will be admitted to BHSEC in the fall. Simon’s Rock is an early college exclusively, and therefore has a college application process that is identical to all colleges, with the exception that we also require a Parent Supplement to get a better understanding of our more youthful applicants. I imagine at a public high school early college the institution serves different students than at a private liberal arts and sciences early college. What are some of the central differences you have noticed in the profile of student that finds their way to the two different campuses? The first major difference obviously is that Simon’s Rock students come from all over the country, and several countries besides. As the presence of the Parent Supplem
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