I'm a student here, and I'll say that it is highly overrated both academically. 70% of the students are subpar and pride themselves on merely varsity level athletics while the remaining 30% are average students who are praised like extremely promising intellectuals which they are not. The top five students tend to be very smug and self-satisfied, and condescending to others. If you want school pride, this is good, though maybe second to UCC in terms of future networking. Also there is a lot of racial tension here, which you will never experience until you're well into your year or are some super high level athlete, so if you're a minority expect to stick with your own for the next few years or live sort of in denial. Being "White-Washed" is a very big theme here, and even the minorities argue amongst themselves.This is ironic considering it seems as though this school is at least 50% Italian and supposedly 95% Catholic. You'll find that guys calling themselves Catholic are the worst, while some of the agnostics are somewhat reasonable. Income-wise, I'd say most are upper-middle class, so I guess you would't have to worry about the fact that the school pummelling the tuition pool into recruiting provincial level athletes. The teachers are on par with public schools, obviously some better than others. Most are nice but some are complete a$$holes. Also quite a few of the teachers' kids go here, and judging by their attitude and behaviour, they're not grateful of the nice discount they are probably getting. Seem sour? Guessed right. But then again, I'm not here to judge people's parenting. If you're lucky, you will not experience most of what I described. But then again if you were lucky, you might have already made up your mind to go to other schools. Want you/your son to grow up to be a smug, racist (yes, even you minorities) SMC Man??? Send him here, but he's going have to change in college since those that don't end up becoming janitors who sue successful people (aka Eminem).
By the way, here, Filipinos are not considered a minority. They are considered Black. I don't know how this works, but OK!!! read more