Georgetown Prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Completely anecdotal, but in the early 90's I was graduating from a Potomac middle school. (1 of the 2). Myself and 4 other classmates applied to Prep. Two of us were white Episcopalian. Two were Persian (1 Muslim the other Bahai) and only 1 was Catholic (and he was of east Indian decent). Not one traditional Irish Catholic among us.

All 5 of us were accepted. We were all pretty smart kids. A/B students. I scored in 99% on the PSAT's (think that's the test we took back then). Imagine my friends had good test scores too. All 5 of us went out for the freshman football team and played other sports. Solid athletes but no super stars. None of us had any family connections or any other kind of connections that I know of. All were full pay.

Not saying that this is indicative of how Prep operates today but public school kids do get in. There were kids from other public middle schools too. Not many but some. And when I was there there were definitely border students that were getting financial aid.

in your last paragraph you do say that there weren’t many public school kids there. And that the public school kids you knew were all full pay.

So you agree with the post you replied to. The great majority of the student body were Catholics who went to Catholic grammar schools.

The composition of the Prep borders has changed almost completely since you were there. Now it’s very heavily International students and they are all full pay at an outrageously high rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Completely anecdotal, but in the early 90's I was graduating from a Potomac middle school. (1 of the 2). Myself and 4 other classmates applied to Prep. Two of us were white Episcopalian. Two were Persian (1 Muslim the other Bahai) and only 1 was Catholic (and he was of east Indian decent). Not one traditional Irish Catholic among us.

All 5 of us were accepted. We were all pretty smart kids. A/B students. I scored in 99% on the PSAT's (think that's the test we took back then). Imagine my friends had good test scores too. All 5 of us went out for the freshman football team and played other sports. Solid athletes but no super stars. None of us had any family connections or any other kind of connections that I know of. All were full pay.

Not saying that this is indicative of how Prep operates today but public school kids do get in. There were kids from other public middle schools too. Not many but some. And when I was there there were definitely border students that were getting financial aid.

in your last paragraph you do say that there weren’t many public school kids there. And that the public school kids you knew were all full pay.

So you agree with the post you replied to. The great majority of the student body were Catholics who went to Catholic grammar schools.

The composition of the Prep borders has changed almost completely since you were there. Now it’s very heavily International students and they are all full pay at an outrageously high rate.

Yeah I agree with the earlier post. The vast majority of kids were from Catholic parochial schools and Mater Dei. LOTS of Mater Dei kids. Maybe 25-30 in our class.

There were a couple (2 that I can think of off the top of my head) borders that were almost certainly on FA. Plenty of Asian borders (maybe 50%) when I was there.

I can think of 7 kids in my class that came from public schools but I feel like there has to be at least a couple that I'm just not remembering. Not exact figures but I don't think they're too far off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Completely anecdotal, but in the early 90's I was graduating from a Potomac middle school. (1 of the 2). Myself and 4 other classmates applied to Prep. Two of us were white Episcopalian. Two were Persian (1 Muslim the other Bahai) and only 1 was Catholic (and he was of east Indian decent). Not one traditional Irish Catholic among us.

All 5 of us were accepted. We were all pretty smart kids. A/B students. I scored in 99% on the PSAT's (think that's the test we took back then). Imagine my friends had good test scores too. All 5 of us went out for the freshman football team and played other sports. Solid athletes but no super stars. None of us had any family connections or any other kind of connections that I know of. All were full pay.

Not saying that this is indicative of how Prep operates today but public school kids do get in. There were kids from other public middle schools too. Not many but some. And when I was there there were definitely border students that were getting financial aid.

in your last paragraph you do say that there weren’t many public school kids there. And that the public school kids you knew were all full pay.

So you agree with the post you replied to. The great majority of the student body were Catholics who went to Catholic grammar schools.

The composition of the Prep borders has changed almost completely since you were there. Now it’s very heavily International students and they are all full pay at an outrageously high rate.

Yeah I agree with the earlier post. The vast majority of kids were from Catholic parochial schools and Mater Dei. LOTS of Mater Dei kids. Maybe 25-30 in our class.

There were a couple (2 that I can think of off the top of my head) borders that were almost certainly on FA. Plenty of Asian borders (maybe 50%) when I was there.

I can think of 7 kids in my class that came from public schools but I feel like there has to be at least a couple that I'm just not remembering. Not exact figures but I don't think they're too far off.

Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

[Anonymous]

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Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

I wouldn’t call a public school high school education “vanilla.” I think you underestimate the experiences public school has to offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

Right. No one else at any other school had a great high school experience. No one has great friends, camaraderie, and memories from any public school ever. So no one could possible understand how much more special Prep is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

I wouldn’t call a public school high school education “vanilla.” I think you underestimate the experiences public school has to offer.

Oh, Im quite familiar with the public school “experience” having gone through it myself along with my wife, siblings, friends, etc.

And what I have learned is one public high school in an affluent neiighborhood or town is pretty much like another. Some of this sameness is mandated by the rules amd supervision of the Board of Education.

The private school “experience” is quite different and Prep’s is unique inside that world.

We could argue about which is “better” and never agree.

One manifestation of the difference between the two is the long term enthusiasm, support and even involvement I see on the part of the students, the alumni and even the non-alumni parents in the Prep world. The difference in the experience, I believe, leads to this difference in the connection between the students and the alumni and the school.

Its not a place you have to go because of where you live and that you feel almost no connection to once walk out the doors at graduation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So it has been mentioned that if your son is an athlete they have a better chance of getting in. Gprep isnt part of the WCAC so i dont know how competitive they are sports wise.

Is your application flagged as athlete by the coaches or just in general. I am trying to figure out how do they know who is a novice versus someone who truly has athletic talent.

Usually the very best athletes in the DMV find their way to the WCAC. Although lots also stay in the public school in PG and in NoVa.

But IAC teams are not that far below the WCAC. If the WCAC is the major leagues, the IAC is Triple A. And in some sports, the IAC is better. (Not football or basketball)

Bullis, Prep, Landon take sports very seriously. It’s a priority for them.

What are the sports that Prep tend to do the heavy recruitment for? How do kids even make the team if heavy recruitment takes place ?

First would be football.

Lacrosse and basketball probably follow in that order.

But, football and lacrosse have large rosters. And there aren’t that many kids that are admitted with special “help” from The coaching staffs in the Admissions process. The majority of theses teams are made up of boys, who go through the regular process.

But lots of these regular boys select Prep because they are interested in sports and want to play at the level of the top teams in the IAC.

In recent years Prep has dominated the IAC Founders Cup race which is awarded to the school with the overall, across all sports, performance.

Thought Georgetown Prep was a lacrosse school?

[Anonymous]

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Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

I wouldn’t call a public school high school education “vanilla.” I think you underestimate the experiences public school has to offer.

Oh, Im quite familiar with the public school “experience” having gone through it myself along with my wife, siblings, friends, etc.

And what I have learned is one public high school in an affluent neiighborhood or town is pretty much like another. Some of this sameness is mandated by the rules amd supervision of the Board of Education.

The private school “experience” is quite different and Prep’s is unique inside that world.

We could argue about which is “better” and never agree.

One manifestation of the difference between the two is the long term enthusiasm, support and even involvement I see on the part of the students, the alumni and even the non-alumni parents in the Prep world. The difference in the experience, I believe, leads to this difference in the connection between the students and the alumni and the school.

Its not a place you have to go because of where you live and that you feel almost no connection to once walk out the doors at graduation.

Am I the only one that thinks these posters on here are a little strange? Yeah I had a wonderful high school experience as well but I’m still not relishing in it and thinking about it and posting online about it on a daily basis. Dude get over yourself. Your school isn’t the only one that offers a great experience. I had an amazing experience as well and so did most of my friends whether they went to private or public.

[Anonymous]

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Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

Right. No one else at any other school had a great high school experience. No one has great friends, camaraderie, and memories from any public school ever. So no one could possible understand how much more special Prep is.

There are 187,000 k-12 students in Montgomery County. About 13% of them (25,000) opt out of the free public schools for private and church related schools sometimes at significant financial sacrifice.

In the more affluent towns and neighborhoods this percentage is much higher.

This apparently sticks in the crawl of some public school supprters, who populate this board telling us that this is a waste of money, that public schools are just as good, etc. Much as this poster seems to be doing.

One wonders why they do this or why they care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

I wouldn’t call a public school high school education “vanilla.” I think you underestimate the experiences public school has to offer.

Oh, Im quite familiar with the public school “experience” having gone through it myself along with my wife, siblings, friends, etc.

And what I have learned is one public high school in an affluent neiighborhood or town is pretty much like another. Some of this sameness is mandated by the rules amd supervision of the Board of Education.

The private school “experience” is quite different and Prep’s is unique inside that world.

We could argue about which is “better” and never agree.

One manifestation of the difference between the two is the long term enthusiasm, support and even involvement I see on the part of the students, the alumni and even the non-alumni parents in the Prep world. The difference in the experience, I believe, leads to this difference in the connection between the students and the alumni and the school.

Its not a place you have to go because of where you live and that you feel almost no connection to once walk out the doors at graduation.

I think you need to attend a Wilson High School basketball game and I think you will quickly change your mind. The crowd alone of alumni, students, students from other schools, private high school recruits will quickly show you how it dwarfs a Prep crowd.

[Anonymous]

I would like to but I am afraid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like to but I am afraid.

Your afraid to travel down Wisconsin Ave between Bethesda and Georgetown? Try again, clearly you know nothing of the school or the area. God forbid you rub elbows with those who are not entitled or members of the country club.

[Anonymous]

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Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.

LOL! Yup. I remember my interview with Horsey! I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football. He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.

Right. No one else at any other school had a great high school experience. No one has great friends, camaraderie, and memories from any public school ever. So no one could possible understand how much more special Prep is.

There are 187,000 k-12 students in Montgomery County. About 13% of them (25,000) opt out of the free public schools for private and church related schools sometimes at significant financial sacrifice.

In the more affluent towns and neighborhoods this percentage is much higher.

This apparently sticks in the crawl of some public school supprters, who populate this board telling us that this is a waste of money, that public schools are just as good, etc. Much as this poster seems to be doing.

One wonders why they do this or why they care.

I don't live in MoCo, and my kids are in Catholic school. You are giving your school a bad rep. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound?