Georgetown Prep?

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Say Anything?

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Anonymous wrote:Say Anything?

Nope, but it is an 80s flick. Best line from Say Anything:

Lloyd Dobler: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?

Joe: By choice, man.

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Anonymous wrote:"The Geeks, sportos, motorheads, dweebs, dorks, sluts, buttheads...they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude." Name that film.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

Love Say Anything - my favorite movie.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Geeks, sportos, motorheads, dweebs, dorks, sluts, buttheads...they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude." Name that film.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

Love Say Anything - my favorite movie.

Never mind - it should have been obvious. Ferris Bueller...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Geeks, sportos, motorheads, dweebs, dorks, sluts, buttheads...they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude." Name that film.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

Love Say Anything - my favorite movie.

Never mind - it should have been obvious. Ferris Bueller...

Bingo!!

[Anonymous]

Back to the subject: my problem with Prep? They accept too many boys who are not accepted at other schools in the area.

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Wrong. They have a very very low acceptance rate statistically.

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That's not what I am saying. Their acceptance rate may be low, but boys who get in their get rejected elsewhere.

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NP here. Can you be more specific? I don't want to get "hoodwinked" into sending my very academically motivated son to a school that purports to be selective but really is not. Is it the most academically selective Catholic school, and if not, what is? Saint Anselms?

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My guess is gonzaga is harder to get into then Georgetown Prep only because it is much cheaper if you want the catholic school experience. My friend whose son went to mater Dei told me that many boys are starting to go to gonzaga instead of automatically going to prep because of the cost difference. ($26,935 vs $15,850)

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I am one of many leaving Prep. Not a great place for the academically motivated. Most intellectually curious, bright boys tolerate that the "learning" is reduced to memorization banking that the reputation of Prep will open doors in their future. Sadly, most of the administration and teachers are not interested in helping their students. This year, a handful of teachers advised their most motivated students to move to another school before they were swallowed by the machine.

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Anonymous wrote:I wanted to respond to some of the criticisms of Georgetown Prep I've read here... I graduated from Georgetown Prep over 20 years ago, and in my opinion what distinguished the school from others was its emphasis on creating "men for others." There may be other schools who place more students at ivy league schools, etc., but my experiences with the Jesuits and the incredibly committed teaching staff there were all positive. I was involved in sports, and the athletic program is very strong, but sports were always kept in perspective; I remember a strong emphasis on sports as character building and not as an end in themselves...

Places change in twenty years. We are there now and it's obvious it will be great again. Just not now.

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Anonymous wrote:I am one of many leaving Prep. Not a great place for the academically motivated. Most intellectually curious, bright boys tolerate that the "learning" is reduced to memorization banking that the reputation of Prep will open doors in their future. Sadly, most of the administration and teachers are not interested in helping their students. This year, a handful of teachers advised their most motivated students to move to another school before they were swallowed by the machine.

Can you please be more specific? Where are these boys going? A school that doesn't reduce learning to rote memorization is exactly what we are looking for.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am one of many leaving Prep. Not a great place for the academically motivated. Most intellectually curious, bright boys tolerate that the "learning" is reduced to memorization banking that the reputation of Prep will open doors in their future. Sadly, most of the administration and teachers are not interested in helping their students. This year, a handful of teachers advised their most motivated students to move to another school before they were swallowed by the machine.

Can you please be more specific? Where are these boys going? A school that doesn't reduce learning to rote memorization is exactly what we are looking for.

I'm sorry. I wish I knew where to tell you to go. I don't think anyone who came to Prep planned on leaving so many are scrambling to find a new home. The experience at Prep is just that miserable that it doesn't matter that much where we are going- just that we are escaping.. That said, most every school wants a Prep boy.

Please don't be fooled by the beautiful campus. Prep needs to return to its roots and live out the Jesuit ideals of "men for others" that made it great.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the subject: my problem with Prep? They accept too many boys who are not accepted at other schools in the area.

This is obviously a troll. I have a good friend in a Admin position at Prep. and says that most Prep boys do NOT apply elsewhere. That makes sense to me given the unique Catholic niche Prep, fills. But good try troll.