St. Albans lax

[Anonymous]

You realize that every prospect day anywhere charges. You don’t want a bunch of random kids showing up with zero interest in attending the school.

[Anonymous]

Prospect day for HS is a little odd

[Anonymous]

To be honest if schools can charge an application fee, isn't it reasonable to charge a fee to hold an event like this? It is a chance for prospective students to tour the athletic facilities, practice with likely members of the team, and they are also serving a lunch. There is a cost to those things, isn't it reasonable to try to cover the expenses?

[Anonymous]

Let's not fluff over it. It's a recruiting event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's not fluff over it. It's a recruiting event.

Ummmm. So what? You act like that is some kind of “gotcha”.

[Anonymous]

o be honest if schools can charge an application fee, isn't it reasonable to charge a fee to hold an event like this? It is a chance for prospective students to tour the athletic facilities, practice with likely members of the team, and they are also serving a lunch. There is a cost to those things, isn't it reasonable to try to cover the expenses?

the STA community can do no wrong...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's not fluff over it. It's a recruiting event.

Ummmm. So what? You act like that is some kind of “gotcha”.

It is when STA parents have sworn for years that STA did not recruit.....because they were above that.

[Anonymous]

^ I agree - and I don’t understand it. I actually wondered if the administration had seen the brochure.

[Anonymous]

This sort of thing has been going on in the IAC for decades.

Prep and Bullis have hosted 8th grade basketball tournaments along wit all the Catholic League schools.

It’s subtle recruiting, although I have seen some rather aggressive attempts to make contact with particularly attractive prospects during these events.

Most of the recruiting effort occurs outside of this as alums, current parents and prospective parents try to influence those that they see as particularly skilled.

When I hear or read “Our school doesn’t recruit”, I roll my eyes. Because I know from personal experience that they do and that athletic ability is considered in the Admissions process and possibly in the awarding of Financial Aid.

The basic problem the St Albans faces is the ratcheting up of the athletic programs at the other IAC schools. years ago only Landon cared about lacrosse and they got their players by convincing their best athletes to play the sport. Then Prep joined in. and within a few years they were competing for 8th grade talent. Then Bullis decided it wanted to be good at lacrosse.

St Albans just wants to be competitive. If they don’t recruit players, like their conference mates, they’ll fall further and further behind.

[Anonymous]

You guys are all missing the point of these prospect days. There is nothing “prospect” about them. They are simply a way for the high schools to raise money. Literally all that matters here is money.

Why do you think only the bottom DI and DIII colleges do recruiting days? For the exact same reason, to make money. The big leagues already get hundreds of thousands and don’t need the “prospect days” because the purpose behind them is money not recruiting kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being familiar with both Prep and STA, I would think the academic top 10-15% of each school would match up well with each other. What does appear to be true, however, is that STA has done significantly better in Ivy League, and its equivalent, college admissions. And I don't think the reason is solely because Prep families prefer Notre Dame and Georgetown.

I would agree with this. The top 10% are very similar at both schools. However, the bottom 75% or so at STA are much stronger than the bottom 75% at Prep. There are few to no kids at STA that aren't very academic kids. The college admissions also reflect this--the top 10 or so are similar but the bottom 75% admits at STA are much stronger than the bottom 75% at Prep.

It’s not the bottom 75%, that’s a gross exaggeration. These schools are far more similar academically and in regards to student intelligence and drive than some would like to admit. I would say the bottom 25% at Prep is less academically inclined than the bottom 25% at STA. Other than that their student bodies are rather similar in regards to intelligence, academic interest, focus, and drive

I'll give STA its due for academics, but to claim Prep is in the same league and better than Landon is simply not true. The top 10-15 % of kids at all three schools are likely similar. The depth of great students at STA is simply greater than at Landon or Prep. I believe Landon is a better academic school than Prep overall, but I will accept that they are equal for the sake of the previous poster.

[Anonymous]

Landon isn't charging for their middle school clinics.

[Anonymous]

neither did Bullis...

it is very petty move by the STA administration to allow this to happen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being familiar with both Prep and STA, I would think the academic top 10-15% of each school would match up well with each other. What does appear to be true, however, is that STA has done significantly better in Ivy League, and its equivalent, college admissions. And I don't think the reason is solely because Prep families prefer Notre Dame and Georgetown.

I would agree with this. The top 10% are very similar at both schools. However, the bottom 75% or so at STA are much stronger than the bottom 75% at Prep. There are few to no kids at STA that aren't very academic kids. The college admissions also reflect this--the top 10 or so are similar but the bottom 75% admits at STA are much stronger than the bottom 75% at Prep.

It’s not the bottom 75%, that’s a gross exaggeration. These schools are far more similar academically and in regards to student intelligence and drive than some would like to admit. I would say the bottom 25% at Prep is less academically inclined than the bottom 25% at STA. Other than that their student bodies are rather similar in regards to intelligence, academic interest, focus, and drive

I'll give STA its due for academics, but to claim Prep is in the same league and better than Landon is simply not true. The top 10-15 % of kids at all three schools are likely similar. The depth of great students at STA is simply greater than at Landon or Prep. I believe Landon is a better academic school than Prep overall, but I will accept that they are equal for the sake of the previous poster.

Sorry, but this is incorrect. Prep is superior academically to Landon. It is closer to STA academically. Kids who can't handle STA's academics transfer to Landon, Bullis, and St. Andrews. They don't go to Prep because it is fairly equal in academic rigor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being familiar with both Prep and STA, I would think the academic top 10-15% of each school would match up well with each other. What does appear to be true, however, is that STA has done significantly better in Ivy League, and its equivalent, college admissions. And I don't think the reason is solely because Prep families prefer Notre Dame and Georgetown.

I would agree with this. The top 10% are very similar at both schools. However, the bottom 75% or so at STA are much stronger than the bottom 75% at Prep. There are few to no kids at STA that aren't very academic kids. The college admissions also reflect this--the top 10 or so are similar but the bottom 75% admits at STA are much stronger than the bottom 75% at Prep.

It’s not the bottom 75%, that’s a gross exaggeration. These schools are far more similar academically and in regards to student intelligence and drive than some would like to admit. I would say the bottom 25% at Prep is less academically inclined than the bottom 25% at STA. Other than that their student bodies are rather similar in regards to intelligence, academic interest, focus, and drive

I'll give STA its due for academics, but to claim Prep is in the same league and better than Landon is simply not true. The top 10-15 % of kids at all three schools are likely similar. The depth of great students at STA is simply greater than at Landon or Prep. I believe Landon is a better academic school than Prep overall, but I will accept that they are equal for the sake of the previous poster.

Sorry, but this is incorrect. Prep is superior academically to Landon. It is closer to STA academically. Kids who can't handle STA's academics transfer to Landon, Bullis, and St. Andrews. They don't go to Prep because it is fairly equal in academic rigor.

Sorry to you. You are full of shit.