Georgetown Prep.

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Prep has many more reclassed kids than any other IAC school. Combined with the "win at all costs" mentality of the parents, it's no wonder Prep cares more about athletics than anything else.

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Not sure that's true on a per capita basis since Landon invented reclassing in the IAC and Bullis and Episcopal allow upper school athlete transfers to reclass. Some of the resident students from China at Prep have skipped a grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure that's true on a per capita basis since Landon invented reclassing in the IAC and Bullis and Episcopal allow upper school athlete transfers to reclass. Some of the resident students from China at Prep have skipped a grade.

Pretty sure none of the exchange students are picking up a long stick or protecting the quarterback's blind side.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure that's true on a per capita basis since Landon invented reclassing in the IAC and Bullis and Episcopal allow upper school athlete transfers to reclass. Some of the resident students from China at Prep have skipped a grade.

Pretty sure none of the exchange students are picking up a long stick or protecting the quarterback's blind side.

This is such a stupid counter argument. Let's say there are 100 boarding students at Prep and none of them play sports (which is untrue). So 25 kids per grade who aren't contributing to athletics at Prep.

At every IAC school, there are similarly at least 25 boys in every HS grade who aren't contributing meaningfully to a Varsity sport.

Nice try.

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Anonymous wrote:Prep has many more reclassed kids than any other IAC school. Combined with the "win at all costs" mentality of the parents, it's no wonder Prep cares more about athletics than anything else.

Lies, lies lies. Why all the hate? Prep neither has more reclassed kids than any other IAC school, nor do they have the mentality of win at all costs. This is completely ludicrous and invented by haters who are mad Prep is a good school with a strong athletic program. And let's not forget that reclassing students for athletic prowess really only benefits middle schoolers and maybe freshman, but by the time kids are playing Varsity sports they are fully grown and developed so it doesn't really make a difference. Sure some kids repeated a grade in elementary because they needed to (just like any other school) and Mater Dei is known to encourage kids to repeat if needed, but this does not mean all kids from MD repeat nor does it mean kids repeat for sports. Not to mention the freshman class, just like every other class at Prep, is made up of boys from about 70 different middle schools. Boys come from Catholic schools, Independents, and publics in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and multiple other states and, of course, international schools around the world.

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Anonymous wrote:The perceived negative publicity actually helped Prep immensely. Many of the articles about Kavanaugh often mentioned Gorsuch, Jerome Powell and other illustrious alumni and made reference to its average SAT score of 1386. The reality is that most families who considered Prep tended to support Kavanaugh, and many families concluded that, notwithstanding any of the bad publicity, the school must be doing something right to have produced two sitting SCOTUS Justices and the Federal Reserve Chair. Having a long history, great facilities and excellent athletics certainly does not hurt either. Interestingly, Prep is one of the only schools which publishes a matriculation list that details where each graduate will attend college.

Lots of other area schools publish this.

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Anonymous wrote:Easy to spot the Mater Dei/Prep/Gonzaga parents.

1. Absolute nightmares at sporting events

2. Cares everything about the HS bumper sticker
Couldn't care less where the kid goes to college

Had two sons who attended different private schools in the DMV. Both competed against Prep in sports. When I went to watch games or meets at Prep on school day afternoons or evenings, I was always amazed that the rest room was trashed--the one in the lobby of the building with the bookstore. Paper towels and other litter thrown all over the floor, a total mess. And, it was consistent. I never saw a mess like that at my sons' schools, nor at any other school I visited. Again, this was consistent, and i was always surprised that the Administration let it go on. Would not have happened when I was in high school, either. Maybe seems like a trivial thing to some people, but I will forever think of Prep as a place where students feel entitled and the Administration seems to do nothing about that.

I also attended one game at Prep where a kid was in the announcer's booth all game taunting Prep's opponent and its fans with snarky comments, while Prep was getting it handed to them on the field (which was poetic justice). I knew kids on both teams, but was pulling for the visitors after about 10 minutes of enduring the classless dribble coming over the loud speakers. I was dumbfounded that I did not see someone in the Administration march up to the booth, turn off the mic and haul out the kid by his ear. Really poor form.

I did not have the same experiences with Gonzaga. They brought the fan base for sure and they have some of the best school spirit in the DMV. I never saw the issues I saw with Prep.

On Mater Dei, I did watch one of my sons play them in middle school basketball, and they had three kids who looked 25 years old. They might have been!

Your litany of perceived issues seem connected only by the very biased perspective of someone trying hard to find fault. I’ve never seen common space or bathrooms at Prep trashed on regular school days. If it was consistent every time you were there, perhaps your kids’ visiting team was responsible?

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Even if you just count the kids at Prep who went to Mater Dei, that alone represents more reclassed kids than found at other IAC schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure that's true on a per capita basis since Landon invented reclassing in the IAC and Bullis and Episcopal allow upper school athlete transfers to reclass. Some of the resident students from China at Prep have skipped a grade.

Pretty sure none of the exchange students are picking up a long stick or protecting the quarterback's blind side.

This is such a stupid counter argument. Let's say there are 100 boarding students at Prep and none of them play sports (which is untrue). So 25 kids per grade who aren't contributing to athletics at Prep.

At every IAC school, there are similarly at least 25 boys in every HS grade who aren't contributing meaningfully to a Varsity sport.

Nice try.

It's not a stupid argument. About 115 (according to their own site) of the students are boarders. Prep (again, according to their own site) has 496 students. Most of the boarders come from east Asian countries or Latin America. Those kids are playing lax, basketball or football. Some contribute in other sports such as soccer, tennis, wrestling or baseball. The argument that Prep has 500 Mater Dei kids who are all sports fanatics enrolled there is just flat out false and ignores the reality that about 23% of their student body has absolutely not intention of ever playing the big 3 sports.

And yes, there are also day students from parochial schools that have no interest in sports just like any other IAC school.

No question that athletics are big at Prep. There is equally no question that a sizable portion of the student body will never contribute in the sports that receive the most attention.

https://www.gprep.org/about/fast-facts
https://www.gprep.org/boarding

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure that's true on a per capita basis since Landon invented reclassing in the IAC and Bullis and Episcopal allow upper school athlete transfers to reclass. Some of the resident students from China at Prep have skipped a grade.

Pretty sure none of the exchange students are picking up a long stick or protecting the quarterback's blind side.

This is such a stupid counter argument. Let's say there are 100 boarding students at Prep and none of them play sports (which is untrue). So 25 kids per grade who aren't contributing to athletics at Prep.

At every IAC school, there are similarly at least 25 boys in every HS grade who aren't contributing meaningfully to a Varsity sport.

Nice try.

It's not a stupid argument. About 115 (according to their own site) of the students are boarders. Prep (again, according to their own site) has 496 students. Most of the boarders come from east Asian countries or Latin America. Those kids are not playing lax, basketball or football. Some contribute in other sports such as soccer, tennis, wrestling or baseball. The argument that Prep has 500 Mater Dei kids who are all sports fanatics enrolled there is just flat out false and ignores the reality that about 23% of their student body has absolutely no intention of ever playing the big 3 sports.

And yes, there are also day students from parochial schools that have no interest in sports just like any other IAC school.

No question that athletics are big at Prep. There is equally no question that a sizable portion of the student body will never contribute in the sports that receive the most attention.

https://www.gprep.org/about/fast-facts
https://www.gprep.org/boarding

*edit-added an important word

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Anonymous wrote:Prep has many more reclassed kids than any other IAC school. Combined with the "win at all costs" mentality of the parents, it's no wonder Prep cares more about athletics than anything else.

Lies, lies lies. Why all the hate? Prep neither has more reclassed kids than any other IAC school, nor do they have the mentality of win at all costs. This is completely ludicrous and invented by haters who are mad Prep is a good school with a strong athletic program. And let's not forget that reclassing students for athletic prowess really only benefits middle schoolers and maybe freshman, but by the time kids are playing Varsity sports they are fully grown and developed so it doesn't really make a difference. Sure some kids repeated a grade in elementary because they needed to (just like any other school) and Mater Dei is known to encourage kids to repeat if needed, but this does not mean all kids from MD repeat nor does it mean kids repeat for sports. Not to mention the freshman class, just like every other class at Prep, is made up of boys from about 70 different middle schools. Boys come from Catholic schools, Independents, and publics in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and multiple other states and, of course, international schools around the world.

Glad you believe that

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Anonymous wrote:Prep has many more reclassed kids than any other IAC school. Combined with the "win at all costs" mentality of the parents, it's no wonder Prep cares more about athletics than anything else.

Lies, lies lies. Why all the hate? Prep neither has more reclassed kids than any other IAC school, nor do they have the mentality of win at all costs. This is completely ludicrous and invented by haters who are mad Prep is a good school with a strong athletic program. And let's not forget that reclassing students for athletic prowess really only benefits middle schoolers and maybe freshman, but by the time kids are playing Varsity sports they are fully grown and developed so it doesn't really make a difference. Sure some kids repeated a grade in elementary because they needed to (just like any other school) and Mater Dei is known to encourage kids to repeat if needed, but this does not mean all kids from MD repeat nor does it mean kids repeat for sports. Not to mention the freshman class, just like every other class at Prep, is made up of boys from about 70 different middle schools. Boys come from Catholic schools, Independents, and publics in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and multiple other states and, of course, international schools around the world.

Glad you believe that

You should too. No difference when a junior plays a senior in high school. Growth has taken place and muscle memory and other factors have taken place thru puberty. When you get to college there will be no differentiating.

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Anonymous wrote:Prep has many more reclassed kids than any other IAC school. Combined with the "win at all costs" mentality of the parents, it's no wonder Prep cares more about athletics than anything else.

Lies, lies lies. Why all the hate? Prep neither has more reclassed kids than any other IAC school, nor do they have the mentality of win at all costs. This is completely ludicrous and invented by haters who are mad Prep is a good school with a strong athletic program. And let's not forget that reclassing students for athletic prowess really only benefits middle schoolers and maybe freshman, but by the time kids are playing Varsity sports they are fully grown and developed so it doesn't really make a difference. Sure some kids repeated a grade in elementary because they needed to (just like any other school) and Mater Dei is known to encourage kids to repeat if needed, but this does not mean all kids from MD repeat nor does it mean kids repeat for sports. Not to mention the freshman class, just like every other class at Prep, is made up of boys from about 70 different middle schools. Boys come from Catholic schools, Independents, and publics in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and multiple other states and, of course, international schools around the world.

Glad you believe that

You should too. No difference when a junior plays a senior in high school. Growth has taken place and muscle memory and other factors have taken place thru puberty. When you get to college there will be no differentiating.

There is certainly a difference in maturity and IQ of the particular sport. But College scouts know the difference and a good coach or counselor should be able to still get the kids who don’t reclassify the same type of collegiate opportunities

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Anonymous wrote:Prep has many more reclassed kids than any other IAC school. Combined with the "win at all costs" mentality of the parents, it's no wonder Prep cares more about athletics than anything else.

Lies, lies lies. Why all the hate? Prep neither has more reclassed kids than any other IAC school, nor do they have the mentality of win at all costs. This is completely ludicrous and invented by haters who are mad Prep is a good school with a strong athletic program. And let's not forget that reclassing students for athletic prowess really only benefits middle schoolers and maybe freshman, but by the time kids are playing Varsity sports they are fully grown and developed so it doesn't really make a difference. Sure some kids repeated a grade in elementary because they needed to (just like any other school) and Mater Dei is known to encourage kids to repeat if needed, but this does not mean all kids from MD repeat nor does it mean kids repeat for sports. Not to mention the freshman class, just like every other class at Prep, is made up of boys from about 70 different middle schools. Boys come from Catholic schools, Independents, and publics in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and multiple other states and, of course, international schools around the world.

Glad you believe that

You should too. No difference when a junior plays a senior in high school. Growth has taken place and muscle memory and other factors have taken place thru puberty. When you get to college there will be no differentiating.

This is not true. I continued growing freshman year of college. I didn't "fill out" until senior year.

Peak athletic performance varies by sport. For things like gymnastics, it is as young as 16-17. But most sports it is mid-twenties. Things have not "evened out" by junior year. (See, e.g., Michael Jordan).

You are also forgetting all the playing time the redshirted kids get from middle school onwards. Studies of canadian hockey players show a very disproportionate percentage of them were born in the month before the age cutoffs for youth hockey. They were frequently the oldest / biggest kid on the youth hockey team and so got the lion's share of the touches and coaching time.

Just admit that you want to advantage your kids and correspondingly disadvantage all the other kids. Don't pretend that you just randomly did something that has no purpose.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t send my son to Prep if they paid me to do so.

Most of the graduates I know from Prep are pompous asshats with mediocre careers who think they are special.

Another family who won't be applying. At this rate, the number of applicants will be equal to the available seats in the freshman class by about the year 2342AD.

I would not send my child to the sister school either.

As soon as the AHC people mentioned that Prep was the brother school, we were out of there. Did not accept.

Of course Prep would guard their own. More reason to dislike their fake religious selves.

This entire thread is ridiculous, when you bash a school you bash 14-18 yr boys. You must feel so proud of yourself. BTW-Stone Ridge is Prep's sister school.

Sister school doesn't mean anything. All these girls and boys socialize between GP, Gonzaga, Stone Ridge, Visitation, Holy Cross, and Holy Child. The designation of sister school is kind of ridiculous in my opinion. My son went to Gonzaga and most of his exposure to girls schools was to Stone Ridge (where he made life long friends), even though Visitation is technically supposed to be Gonzaga's sister school.

Where and how do they socialize?

In HS and now.

For example, if you son goes golfing at the club with friends are some of those friends girls from Stone Ridge?

In HS -- son was in drama club...many girls from SR and Visitation participate in shows. This was at Gonzaga.

and now they go to the Kennedy Center together?