Georgetown Prep.

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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.

You are in la la land if you think that the Kavanaugh circus was "perceived" negative publicity and that more amazingly, it helped Prep "immensely". That publicity was ALL negative, real and not perceived. It made Prep look like a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty. Granted it was from the 80s, but I went to a school that looked similar to Prep in the 80s, and we had none of that going on. The yearbook alone was a total disgrace, and that is on the Administration. Set aside the culture issues that pervaded the school on campus and off campus. It was a black eye, pure and simple. That type of laundry is best not hung on the line for all to see ...

I grew up here and graduated from a peer school in the early 90s. Can confirm that Prep was, without a doubt, a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty.

Yes, someone who attended a completely different school is the best person to make an assessment about an entire student body and faculty. Without a doubt.

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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.

You are in la la land if you think that the Kavanaugh circus was "perceived" negative publicity and that more amazingly, it helped Prep "immensely". That publicity was ALL negative, real and not perceived. It made Prep look like a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty. Granted it was from the 80s, but I went to a school that looked similar to Prep in the 80s, and we had none of that going on. The yearbook alone was a total disgrace, and that is on the Administration. Set aside the culture issues that pervaded the school on campus and off campus. It was a black eye, pure and simple. That type of laundry is best not hung on the line for all to see ...

I grew up here and graduated from a peer school in the early 90s. Can confirm that Prep was, without a doubt, a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty.

Yes, someone who attended a completely different school is the best person to make an assessment about an entire student body and faculty. Without a doubt.

Clearly you are too biased to see clearly .... boiled frog syndrome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prep's obsession with athletic infrastructure has bankrupted the school.

This is a tired talking point from 10 years ago, inaccurate then and inaccurate now.

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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.

You are in la la land if you think that the Kavanaugh circus was "perceived" negative publicity and that more amazingly, it helped Prep "immensely". That publicity was ALL negative, real and not perceived. It made Prep look like a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty. Granted it was from the 80s, but I went to a school that looked similar to Prep in the 80s, and we had none of that going on. The yearbook alone was a total disgrace, and that is on the Administration. Set aside the culture issues that pervaded the school on campus and off campus. It was a black eye, pure and simple. That type of laundry is best not hung on the line for all to see ...

I grew up here and graduated from a peer school in the early 90s. Can confirm that Prep was, without a doubt, a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty.

Yes, someone who attended a completely different school is the best person to make an assessment about an entire student body and faculty. Without a doubt.

Clearly you are too biased to see clearly .... boiled frog syndrome.

Well, you made your bias clear . . . not only admitting you went to a peer (rival) school, but also through your hyperbole.

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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.

You are in la la land if you think that the Kavanaugh circus was "perceived" negative publicity and that more amazingly, it helped Prep "immensely". That publicity was ALL negative, real and not perceived. It made Prep look like a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty. Granted it was from the 80s, but I went to a school that looked similar to Prep in the 80s, and we had none of that going on. The yearbook alone was a total disgrace, and that is on the Administration. Set aside the culture issues that pervaded the school on campus and off campus. It was a black eye, pure and simple. That type of laundry is best not hung on the line for all to see ...

I grew up here and graduated from a peer school in the early 90s. Can confirm that Prep was, without a doubt, a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty.

Yes, someone who attended a completely different school is the best person to make an assessment about an entire student body and faculty. Without a doubt.

Clearly you are too biased to see clearly .... boiled frog syndrome.

Well, you made your bias clear . . . not only admitting you went to a peer (rival) school, but also through your hyperbole.

I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler. I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics). Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep? We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools. Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep. Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater. And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.

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I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler. I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics). Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep? We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools. Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep. Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater. And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.

Just stop. Prep kids don't hang out with Sidwell, Maret SSSAS kids ever. When Landon and Prep are at the same party, the results are often fights. You clearly have no idea just how insular the Catholic community (that you claim to have had extreme amounts of exposure to) is when it comes to the schools they socialize with.

Prep and GDS kids at the same parties? Those two communities are polar opposites of one another and I promise you that 15-18 year old Catholic kids have no interest in anything GDS and you're as likely to see a unicorn eating grass in your front yard as seeing those schools at the same social gatherings/parties. A bit of hyperbole but you get the point.

Gonzaga; yes. The rest of the schools you mentioned; no. Unless you were at Stone Ridge, GZ SJC, GC, Visi, Holy Cross or Holy Child more than likely you have no idea what the Prep high school social scene is like outside of what you've read at the WaPo comment section or CBF talking about a gathering that nobody on earth except her remembers.

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I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler. I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics). Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep? We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools. Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep. Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater. And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.

Just stop. Prep kids don't hang out with Sidwell, Maret SSSAS kids ever. When Landon and Prep are at the same party, the results are often fights. You clearly have no idea just how insular the Catholic community (that you claim to have had extreme amounts of exposure to) is when it comes to the schools they socialize with.

Prep and GDS kids at the same parties? Those two communities are polar opposites of one another and I promise you that 15-18 year old Catholic kids have no interest in anything GDS and you're as likely to see a unicorn eating grass in your front yard as seeing those schools at the same social gatherings/parties. A bit of hyperbole but you get the point.

Gonzaga; yes. The rest of the schools you mentioned; no. Unless you were at Stone Ridge, GZ SJC, GC, Visi, Holy Cross or Holy Child more than likely you have no idea what the Prep high school social scene is like outside of what you've read at the WaPo comment section or CBF talking about a gathering that nobody on earth except her remembers.

Absolutely correct. They won’t like your comments because they don’t fit their preferred false narrative.

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I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler. I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics). Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep? We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools. Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep. Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater. And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.

Just stop. Prep kids don't hang out with Sidwell, Maret SSSAS kids ever. When Landon and Prep are at the same party, the results are often fights. You clearly have no idea just how insular the Catholic community (that you claim to have had extreme amounts of exposure to) is when it comes to the schools they socialize with.

Prep and GDS kids at the same parties? Those two communities are polar opposites of one another and I promise you that 15-18 year old Catholic kids have no interest in anything GDS and you're as likely to see a unicorn eating grass in your front yard as seeing those schools at the same social gatherings/parties. A bit of hyperbole but you get the point.

Gonzaga; yes. The rest of the schools you mentioned; no. Unless you were at Stone Ridge, GZ SJC, GC, Visi, Holy Cross or Holy Child more than likely you have no idea what the Prep high school social scene is like outside of what you've read at the WaPo comment section or CBF talking about a gathering that nobody on earth except her remembers.

They clearly spent time hanging out with Holton girls.

Why not just teach your boys to act better, is it really that hard?

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I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler. I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics). Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep? We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools. Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep. Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater. And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.

Just stop. Prep kids don't hang out with Sidwell, Maret SSSAS kids ever. When Landon and Prep are at the same party, the results are often fights. You clearly have no idea just how insular the Catholic community (that you claim to have had extreme amounts of exposure to) is when it comes to the schools they socialize with.

Prep and GDS kids at the same parties? Those two communities are polar opposites of one another and I promise you that 15-18 year old Catholic kids have no interest in anything GDS and you're as likely to see a unicorn eating grass in your front yard as seeing those schools at the same social gatherings/parties. A bit of hyperbole but you get the point.

Gonzaga; yes. The rest of the schools you mentioned; no. Unless you were at Stone Ridge, GZ SJC, GC, Visi, Holy Cross or Holy Child more than likely you have no idea what the Prep high school social scene is like outside of what you've read at the WaPo comment section or CBF talking about a gathering that nobody on earth except her remembers.

They clearly spent time hanging out with Holton girls.

Why not just teach your boys to act better, is it really that hard?

Prep kids rarely associate with Holton girls. That's Landon's sister school and they're not Catholic. Holton and Prep serve very different communities and you will rarely (I can't remember any) see a Prep kid with a sister at Holton. There are plenty of all girl Catholic schools in the region with very close and long standing ties to Prep. The sister school of their arch-rival is very far down the list of schools that they have any interaction with

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You sound like a total loser.

Something tells me you didn’t have a successful career post graduating GP given how frequently you post on this website.

Your views are quite outdated

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I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler. I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics). Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep? We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools. Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep. Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater. And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.

Just stop. Prep kids don't hang out with Sidwell, Maret SSSAS kids ever. When Landon and Prep are at the same party, the results are often fights. You clearly have no idea just how insular the Catholic community (that you claim to have had extreme amounts of exposure to) is when it comes to the schools they socialize with.

Prep and GDS kids at the same parties? Those two communities are polar opposites of one another and I promise you that 15-18 year old Catholic kids have no interest in anything GDS and you're as likely to see a unicorn eating grass in your front yard as seeing those schools at the same social gatherings/parties. A bit of hyperbole but you get the point.

Gonzaga; yes. The rest of the schools you mentioned; no. Unless you were at Stone Ridge, GZ SJC, GC, Visi, Holy Cross or Holy Child more than likely you have no idea what the Prep high school social scene is like outside of what you've read at the WaPo comment section or CBF talking about a gathering that nobody on earth except her remembers.

They clearly spent time hanging out with Holton girls.

Why not just teach your boys to act better, is it really that hard?

Prep kids rarely associate with Holton girls. That's Landon's sister school and they're not Catholic. Holton and Prep serve very different communities and you will rarely (I can't remember any) see a Prep kid with a sister at Holton. There are plenty of all girl Catholic schools in the region with very close and long standing ties to Prep. The sister school of their arch-rival is very far down the list of schools that they have any interaction with

Yeah, but you’re forgetting about the country club connections.

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+1. Because those who don't know, don't know.

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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.

You are in la la land if you think that the Kavanaugh circus was "perceived" negative publicity and that more amazingly, it helped Prep "immensely". That publicity was ALL negative, real and not perceived. It made Prep look like a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty. Granted it was from the 80s, but I went to a school that looked similar to Prep in the 80s, and we had none of that going on. The yearbook alone was a total disgrace, and that is on the Administration. Set aside the culture issues that pervaded the school on campus and off campus. It was a black eye, pure and simple. That type of laundry is best not hung on the line for all to see ...

I grew up here and graduated from a peer school in the early 90s. Can confirm that Prep was, without a doubt, a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty.

Yes, someone who attended a completely different school is the best person to make an assessment about an entire student body and faculty. Without a doubt.

Clearly you are too biased to see clearly .... boiled frog syndrome.

Well, you made your bias clear . . . not only admitting you went to a peer (rival) school, but also through your hyperbole.

I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler. I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics). Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep? We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools. Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep. Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater. And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.

I'm a mom not an alum but your whole a**hole ratio is pretty obnoxious and tells me a lot more about you than your rival school alums.

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My boys go to a Catholic high school and they hang out with kids from many different public, private, and Catholic schools, but this thread made me realize that we don't know any kids at Prep.

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The Country clubs are also segregated by group. There’s a completely differently crowd at Columbia vs. Chevy Chase vs Kenwood. There are a few exceptions, but not many.