Georgetown Prep rolling out college admissions without mentioning that kids are recruits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a Big 3. I only know 2 GPrep seniors this year. Neither are athletes nor connected and they are going to Cal Tech and Columbia. Pretty solid in my book.

The Cal Tech kid is a track recruit.

Being an athletic recruit at Cal Tech doesn't mean much to admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a Big 3. I only know 2 GPrep seniors this year. Neither are athletes nor connected and they are going to Cal Tech and Columbia. Pretty solid in my book.

Another gratuitous mention of Big 3! Why are Big 3 parents so insecure?

Was just trying to establish I had no skin in the Prep game. I am not insecure, just aware that so many here overreact to so much. I assumed it would have been going the other way (ie “you are some kind of Prep homer!”) Why so quick to point something out when there is a very valid (mine) reason to provide the information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty easy to be "smart" when your first car is more expensive than the teachers, you don't need to work, and the school staff is intimidated by you parents wealth. It's a golden ticket!

Name the school where your fabulous viewpoint is real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I went to the grocery store yesterday and couldn't believe that Aunt Becky is back on the magazine covers. It's a shame that everyone has forgotten that she used tons of money to do frauds for her snotty rich kids. It does however let the upper class know that they can do whatever they want in America and never go to jail.
We deserve what we get- Trump 2024!

No one beats getting away with more stuff than Hunter Biden. Total disaster. Then again, if my pop abandoned me as an injured kid for a career in politics, I would probably be a mess too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a Big 3. I only know 2 GPrep seniors this year. Neither are athletes nor connected and they are going to Cal Tech and Columbia. Pretty solid in my book.

The Cal Tech kid is a track recruit.

Being an athletic recruit at Cal Tech doesn't mean much to admissions.

Sure it doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a Big 3. I only know 2 GPrep seniors this year. Neither are athletes nor connected and they are going to Cal Tech and Columbia. Pretty solid in my book.

The Cal Tech kid is a track recruit.

Look, I'll be the first to agree that nearly all recruited athletes don't bring the same academic prowess and are judged on a lower scale but it's fairly well known that being a recruit at Cal Tech means the coach said he'll save a roster position for you if you can make it through admissions. No thumb on the scale at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a Big 3. I only know 2 GPrep seniors this year. Neither are athletes nor connected and they are going to Cal Tech and Columbia. Pretty solid in my book.

Another gratuitous mention of Big 3! Why are Big 3 parents so insecure?

Was just trying to establish I had no skin in the Prep game. I am not insecure, just aware that so many here overreact to so much. I assumed it would have been going the other way (ie “you are some kind of Prep homer!”) Why so quick to point something out when there is a very valid (mine) reason to provide the information.

“I am not a Prep parent and have no skin in the Prep game but…”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I went to the grocery store yesterday and couldn't believe that Aunt Becky is back on the magazine covers. It's a shame that everyone has forgotten that she used tons of money to do frauds for her snotty rich kids. It does however let the upper class know that they can do whatever they want in America and never go to jail.
We deserve what we get- Trump 2024!

No one beats getting away with more stuff than Hunter Biden. Total disaster. Then again, if my pop abandoned me as an injured kid for a career in politics, I would probably be a mess too.

Hunter Biden?! What office has he ever been elected to or run for? wtf are you even talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every school does that.

Not true. Holton mentions athletic recruiting. So does Stoneridge, Holy Child, Holy Cross, Gonzaga, St. John’s, and Good Counsel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jackson Reed and Walls also list "recruit" status.

Prep is the one school that is trying to hope we don't notice that every decent college matriculation is a lacrosse or baseball recruit.

Again, the schools don't run the accounts. The students do.

Prep is the only school where the announcements Are coming from the actual school account so you’re wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prep put out more matriculation announcements today. Congratulations to all the seniors.

For those naysayers who clearly have an irrational grudge against Prep, Columbia and Cornell are in today’s group and I do not believe either are athletes.

They are sending a baseball player to Columbia.

[Anonymous]

2/3 of the prep announcements are athletic recruits. Why didn’t they mention them? Who knows?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2/3 of the prep announcements are athletic recruits. Why didn’t they mention them? Who knows?

+1 Who cares. Still decent placements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids go to a Big 3. I only know 2 GPrep seniors this year. Neither are athletes nor connected and they are going to Cal Tech and Columbia. Pretty solid in my book.

The Cal Tech kid is a track recruit.

Look, I'll be the first to agree that nearly all recruited athletes don't bring the same academic prowess and are judged on a lower scale but it's fairly well known that being a recruit at Cal Tech means the coach said he'll save a roster position for you if you can make it through admissions. No thumb on the scale at all.

+1

[Anonymous]

The best is when the high schools list college admissions instead of college matriculations. So if one star athlete gets into 4 top schools, the high school lists all 4 schools! LOL.