Top of the line, highly academic and rigorous (if ...

Top of the line, highly academic and rigorous (if taking AP), and colleges know it. This is a great school for you *IF*: 1) You are willing to pre-take a class during the summer prior to your fall classes. This school's 4X4 program moves very quickly, and you will be sorry if you miss important concepts. 2) You are willing to spend long hours on homework and manage to balance outside activities (colleges want outside activities). 3) Find yourself a good tutor! 4) MANAGE YOUR TIME EFFECTIVELY. This should probably be #1. If you don't manage your time, you will be very stressed out and fall behind. To be a successful student here, you truly have to be very diligent about staying on top of things, be self-motivated, and hard-working. If parents have to be on your back, this is not the school for you. The differences in the academic quality between this school and bishops with the $30K price tag, is that CCA has larger classes and some teachers are not very supportive (with regards to extra help). Now that there will be more kids coming in because of a lawsuit that let in all freshmen (and possibly change the policy permanently), it will probably be more difficult for these teachers to offer help.