Georgetown Prep vs. Georgetown Day
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Anonymous
| I am a grandparent wanting to paying for private school for my grandson for high school. He is seventh grade at a public school and an athlete. What is the difference between these two schools? I thought they were the same school when I started looking. English is not my first language sorry if this is not readable. |
Anonymous
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The only thing these two have in common is the word Georgetown.
If you visit the websites for each school you will see more details. |
Anonymous
| It is very kind and generous of you to pay cor high school for your grandson. But I implore you to let him and his parents choose the school. Clearly, you know little about different private schools here, so please let them do the research and decide what school is the best fit. |
Anonymous
+1 Prep is Catholic,single, sex, boarding, socially conservative, athletically-oriented and has a golf course on campus. GDS is non-sectarian, coed, non-residential, socially liberal, athletically-game, but not very good. Prep has 25+ AP classes. GDS limits its AP offerings, but offers multiple post-AP level electives in math, literature, and the social sciences. Both have great top tier college matriculations with Prep students more likely to go to Catholic colleges like Notre Dame and Georgetown than GDS students. |
Anonymous
If you want to pay for my DC, you can choose it. 
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Anonymous
Not true.... they both charge $40k in tuition! |
Anonymous
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Are there two more diametrically opposed high schools?
Hard to believe anyone has ever applied to both let alone someone who considered only these two. My guess is that the OP only remembers “Georgetown” from the conversation and is trying to figure out what school his child is talking about. |
Anonymous
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Georgetown Prep is about big time sports.
Georgetown Day is about big time academics. It's like Notre Dame versus Harvard. Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
Anonymous
While these are both good schools What the PP implied is that Prep has more/better AP's than GDS which is just silly. GDS offers tons of high level classes attended by more students across the grade than Prep. GDS is generally considered to be academically more demanding and harder to get into than Prep. The focus at GDS is intellectual rigor not sports. While there are very smart boys at Prep, the overall cohort is not as academically strong. Prep certainly has better sports. |
Anonymous
| PP didn't imply that at all. Insecure much? |
Anonymous
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Overheard at party of Georgetown Prep students circa 1977: "Hey, we beat Gonzaga again in football but my dad said he didn't like driving down to that part of town. He's going to help me get a job after I graduate from Dickinson. Here, have another brewski."
Overheard at party of GDS students circa 1977: "Oh my god, did Rachel sleep with Arnie (the 11th grade English teacher) too? I can't wait to go to Hampshire College next year. Hey, don't Bogart that joint." |
Anonymous
Hysterical! |
Anonymous
I’m not actually sure this has changed either. It sounds a lot like 1991 too. |
Anonymous
I agree with this poster on all but the last paragraph. Prep has a different curriculum (traditional but is just as demanding. Prep is also at least as difficult to gain admittance to as GDS—if not more. Bear in mind that they attract very different kids. |
Anonymous
| True (funny) story: Mother of very liberal client of mine raised in Takoma Park, MD always wanted to send him to Prep. He shadowed Prep circa 2003 and could not believe that Prep was overwhelmingly pro George W. Bush and Republican. When he went home and reported this to his mom, she realized that, all these years, she had confused Prep with GDS. He ended up at GDS. I graduated from Prep in the 1980s. |