Georgetown Prep rolling out college admissions without mentioning that kids are recruits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are CRAZY. This is by far one of the most unhinged posts I've seen on DCUM. We now care that a kid got into a college based on athletics versus his brains? As if he won't need to use his brains to pass his classes in college too? This thread WREAKS of jealousy and hate. If you don't like Prep, why comment on them? Just ignore what they have going on and focus on the schools that meet your laundry list of "doing things right"......according to you.

Exactly. There is a sick group of haters on dcum for Prep and other Catholic schools. It is quite striking.

[Anonymous]

No school distinguishes between athlete and academic admits. They also don't tell you who is a legacy. A lot of that information is considered confidential.

Every school uses matriculation stats as marketing material to prospective parents. Georgetown Prep would love to say "4 kids enrolled at Harvard last year." They don't care if 3 were athletes and 1 was a legacy. At the end of the day, it's all just marketing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You people are CRAZY. This is by far one of the most unhinged posts I've seen on DCUM. We now care that a kid got into a college based on athletics versus his brains? As if he won't need to use his brains to pass his classes in college too? This thread WREAKS of jealousy and hate. If you don't like Prep, why comment on them? Just ignore what they have going on and focus on the schools that meet your laundry list of "doing things right"......according to you.

Exactly. There is a sick group of haters on dcum for Prep and other Catholic schools. It is quite striking.

But somehow it’s okay to bash schools like Sidwell or GDS by saying some kids only got in bc of athletic hook?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are CRAZY. This is by far one of the most unhinged posts I've seen on DCUM. We now care that a kid got into a college based on athletics versus his brains? As if he won't need to use his brains to pass his classes in college too? This thread WREAKS of jealousy and hate. If you don't like Prep, why comment on them? Just ignore what they have going on and focus on the schools that meet your laundry list of "doing things right"......according to you.

Exactly. There is a sick group of haters on dcum for Prep and other Catholic schools. It is quite striking.

But somehow it’s okay to bash schools like Sidwell or GDS by saying some kids only got in bc of athletic hook?

😂 Way for OP to out themself as a Sidwell parent while at the same time suddenly turning this into a Sidwell thread. 😂

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would not send a kid there but people do.

Agree. Would not send a kid to Columbia!

Good!!! More room for other kids. FYI it’s not something you have to announce!!

Agree. That poster's dumb kid is not getting into Columbia anytime/anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think most schools indicate athletic recruits.

yes, they all do.

Most schools don't make any official announcement - at most schools the kids run an Instagram account the each student chooses whether or not to identify a major and whether or not they are playing a sport

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are CRAZY. This is by far one of the most unhinged posts I've seen on DCUM. We now care that a kid got into a college based on athletics versus his brains? As if he won't need to use his brains to pass his classes in college too? This thread WREAKS of jealousy and hate. If you don't like Prep, why comment on them? Just ignore what they have going on and focus on the schools that meet your laundry list of "doing things right"......according to you.

Exactly. There is a sick group of haters on dcum for Prep and other Catholic schools. It is quite striking.

Wonder why that is?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think most schools indicate athletic recruits.

All of them do. They are transparent.

Where I’ve never seen that can you link?

https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2024

It has the sport listed for athletic recruits.

The Sidwell list you provided is run by students and it does not include all students. They opt in, they choose whether or not to report sports.

The Georgetown Prep school site does officially announce where kids are going. Very few schools do this officially. You are comparing apples to oranges.

Also - when looking at any of these lists - you should assume that the vast majority of T20 admits have a hook. You are mentioning sports, but there are also legacies, VIP, and target populations the school would like to have in their student body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JHU is D3 (unless it's lacrosse) so that sport didn't help them

You clearly don’t know how D3 recruiting works.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think most schools indicate athletic recruits.

All of them do. They are transparent.

Where I’ve never seen that can you link?

https://www.instagram.com/sidwellseniors2024

It has the sport listed for athletic recruits.

The Sidwell list you provided is run by students and it does not include all students. They opt in, they choose whether or not to report sports.

The Georgetown Prep school site does officially announce where kids are going. Very few schools do this officially. You are comparing apples to oranges.

Also - when looking at any of these lists - you should assume that the vast majority of T20 admits have a hook. You are mentioning sports, but there are also legacies, VIP, and target populations the school would like to have in their student body.

Best response to the unhinged OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think most schools indicate athletic recruits.

Our FCPS school does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Student run college lists do often list recruits and majors. But those run by the school typically give less info. As they should.

This. Idiots.

[Anonymous]

I find it refreshing the Prep boys didn’t see the need for their own vanity Insta page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it refreshing the Prep boys didn’t see the need for their own vanity Insta page.

Oh come on....they don't because the school does it....I highly doubt this is because they are somehow choosing some high ground! And, I also assume STA has a tight clamp keeping their boys from making an Insta page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are CRAZY. This is by far one of the most unhinged posts I've seen on DCUM. We now care that a kid got into a college based on athletics versus his brains? As if he won't need to use his brains to pass his classes in college too? This thread WREAKS of jealousy and hate. If you don't like Prep, why comment on them? Just ignore what they have going on and focus on the schools that meet your laundry list of "doing things right"......according to you.

It would NEVER be athletics VS brains. It absolutely must be both.