| Recently, several of our students investigated pursuing their education at a very old, yet recently combined boys / girls school on Warson Road in St. Louis that charges a tuition of $17, 145 per year. What these students found out was both interesting and instructive. |
| 1. We are at least two years ahead of them in Mathematics, especially math for women. |
| 2. One of our students, a young woman, who is not in Chemistry, took a Chemistry quiz the day of her visit and got 100%. |
| 3. Our Science lab work is more advanced than theirs despite the other school's elaborate equipment advantage. |
| 4. Our Social Science classes need to contain a segment that guarantees that our students know a basic timeline that can be used as foundation for the conceptual thinking and writing we already do. |
| 5. Our research writing requirements, in both scientific and humanity areas, are significantly more demanding. |
| We, therefore, pledge to continue work to advance items 1, 2, 3, and 5. Importantly, we have already begun to address item 4. |