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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is very interested in Gtown Prep but has not done well on practice SSATs. He has mostly As (coming from public), is a good athlete and will get great recommendations. Wondering how important test scores are. Should we give up hope if below a certain score?[/quote]

Two questions. Will you need significant financial aid and are you Catholic?[/quote]

We will be full pay but are not Catholic.[/quote]

Being full pay will help. Not being Catholic is not a disqualifier. But to a extent it's a numbers game. This is not a game in which everyone's chances are equal.

About a third of Prep's incoming freshman class of Day students come from a single, all boy's Catholic school, Mater Dei.

Several local parishes regularly send boys to Prep (Blessed Sacrament, Mercy, Little Flower, St Elizabeth's, De Chantal, Holy Redeemer, etc., etc.) There is a longstanding symbiotic relationship between Prep and these schools and the best applicants from these schools are almost always accepted.

Add to this the legacy boys that don't go to one of the feeder schools, faculty kids, URMs, top athletes, and other "connected' families and the classes get filled pretty quickly.

Still, every year public school grads including some non-Catholics are admitted.

Your son might want to consider Landon as an alternative. It draws from a more heterogeneous community. It's about the same size, plays in the same athletic conference, has about the same level of academics, and sends kids tot the same sort of colleges. (Although Prep sends a lot of kids to Catholic colleges)[/quote]

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