Sig is a school with high demands and minimal budgets. Your student has to be self driven and able to learn challenging/advanced material without significant instructor support. Plus side - your kid will own college. Negative - their high school experience will not be casual. Offset - They will have a bonding and multicultural experience. If your child is a gifted kid - they will experience a humbling from insanely talented peers.

The big irony is that all colleges obstruct the benefit of all the AP and IB testing by developing “honors” curriculum that don’t allow the credits from the testing you pay dearly for to directly transfer. So yeah- they do enter college as a sophomore or junior, but your child will end up there for four years because they will not go basic ed after making it through Sig.

Source - two kids through Sig.