Have to be catholic to get in to Georgetown Prep ?

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few Jewish kids blatantly recruited to Georgetown Prep for athletics. YES its a Catholic school but its not nearly as religious as the previous previous poster points it out to be. He seems to think Prep is a school from the 1960's.

Jewish athletes? Really?

As rare as hen's teeth.

This is a Catholic school. the Students are primarily Catholic. The staff is primarily Catholic. The school belongs to the Jesuit Order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a few Jewish kids blatantly recruited to Georgetown Prep for athletics. YES its a Catholic school but its not nearly as religious as the previous previous poster points it out to be. He seems to think Prep is a school from the 1960's.

Jewish athletes? Really?

I LOLed.

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I can name the names of the Jewish athletes recruited and currently on Prep's sports teams, but won't due to the nature of this blog. There are plenty of other faiths represented at Prep and thus on the sports teams, as well. (not singling out the Jewish faith, per se) The point is that Prep recruits for sports and has done so for generations; it doesn't matter what religion the student is, if at all.

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no shit. its a minute topic.

just look on the roster on a few of their teams and its pretty obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:I can name the names of the Jewish athletes recruited and currently on Prep's sports teams, but won't due to the nature of this blog. There are plenty of other faiths represented at Prep and thus on the sports teams, as well. (not singling out the Jewish faith, per se) The point is that Prep recruits for sports and has done so for generations; it doesn't matter what religion the student is, if at all.

We had three boys attend Prep and each played three varsity sports. (FB, BB, Lax and Track)

They had no Jewish team mates and the few non-Catholics were almost always AA.

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would try and portray Prep as some sort of diverse environment when it clearly isn't and never has been.

Take the AA's and the Asian students out of the equation and the student population is 98% RCs.

One or two or even three recent exceptions doesn't change any of that in my mind.

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i think Prep is more Catholic than Gonzaga. Its always been a pretty conservative school.

I think just based on size alone, there are a lot of non practicing Catholics at Gonzaga.

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Anonymous wrote:i think Prep is more Catholic than Gonzaga. Its always been a pretty conservative school.

I think just based on size alone, there are a lot of non practicing Catholics at Gonzaga.

The few non-Catholic athletes at GP this poster writes about probably represent less than 1% of the Georgetown Prep student body of 500.

[Anonymous]

Much easier to get into Prep these days, especially if you're an athlete. If you are an athlete, they don't care about your ethnic and/or religious background. Just as long as you help them win games.

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Have known a few non-Catholics who have gone. Most have been more conservative though.

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You can be whatever race or ethnicity. They cant discrimnate based on religion or your ethnicity.

The broader question is - would your son feel comfortable at Prep if he is not Catholic.

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Anonymous wrote:You can be whatever race or ethnicity. They cant discrimnate based on religion or your ethnicity.

The broader question is - would your son feel comfortable at Prep if he is not Catholic.

Of course, because its a private school they can discriminate on whatever basis they feel like. If they choose to admit only Catholics or only boys, what's going to stop them?

But your last point is a good one. Why would you sign up to attend a school where almost everyone else shares a different religion and a different ethnicity than yours? A place that people go to in large measure because it is homogeneous.

There are too many alternatives for you where this isn't an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Much easier to get into Prep these days, especially if you're an athlete. If you are an athlete, they don't care about your ethnic and/or religious background. Just as long as you help them win games.

That's true at just about any of these schools and it continues through to the select colleges too.

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Just to say my non Catholic son goes to Prep and loves it. He is a freshman and there are kids from every type of middle school you can imagine. Being a non Catholic is not an issue. He likes the religion class and going to Mass. You should visit the school and make up your own mind. What I like the best about it is how relaxed the boys seem. I think it is certainly academic enough to get well prepared for college, but minus the angst at some other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Just to say my non Catholic son goes to Prep and loves it. He is a freshman and there are kids from every type of middle school you can imagine. Being a non Catholic is not an issue. He likes the religion class and going to Mass. You should visit the school and make up your own mind. What I like the best about it is how relaxed the boys seem. I think it is certainly academic enough to get well prepared for college, but minus the angst at some other schools.

There have always been a few non-Catholics at Prep who aren't AAs or boarders from Asia.

Seems a strange choice with so many other alternatives where the boys don't have to attend the religious services of a church other than their own.

Most boys like to fit in with their peers. Filing up to the altar at Mass and refusing the host is not fitting in.

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Anonymous wrote:Much easier to get into Prep these days, especially if you're an athlete. If you are an athlete, they don't care about your ethnic and/or religious background. Just as long as you help them win games.

That's true at just about any of these schools and it continues through to the select colleges too.

Only school it doesn't seem to help with is STA and that may be a poor decision on their part. Recruiting athletes is not just about creating winning teams, its also about something else, something that gets overlooked frequently.

Most folks on this board want to focus on the negative attributes of athletes, such as boorish, cliquish, uncouth behavior and entitlement. I have found that to be the small minority of athletic kids. Kids who are invested in team sports tend to be better at cooperating and working within groups, with peers and superiors. Kids who grwo up playing team sports learn to work with others, how to work for the common good, and how to find their own way within the group without taking away from the larger community effort. These are wonderful attributes and every school needs more kids with them.

My son is a STA student. I watched as he and his friends applied to the local private schools, most from K-8 privates in the area and a few from publics. Some of those boys are great athletes but they struggle some with their academics. None of those boys were admitted to STA for MS or US. Those same boys did get admission offers from Landon, G'town Prep and Gonazga. In several of these cases STA really missed out on an exceptional kid - a boy with exception character and drive and the ability to add many positive aspects to a group. Just because a boy isn't a straight (or mostly) A student and isn't scoring in the 80%s and above on the SSAT, does not mean he isn't smart and a hard worker. In fact, the kids who have to work harder at academics, and have learned a solid work ethic through sports, are the most likely to use all the resources available to them, figure it out, and end up succeeding at academics too. I think it is unfortunate that not everyone sees the possibilities in these kids beyond their success on fields and courts.