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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the high academic independent schools recruit athletes? If so, does anyone know the process? Do they provide financial assistance, or is that need-based only?[/quote]
What makes this hard for people to understand is that they confuse what they know --- or think they know --- about college athletic recruiting with what occurs in private high schools.

The NCAA has many rules under which college athletic recruiting operate. These rules do not exist in the Washington, DC private school world.

And there are no Athletic scholarships like there are in college sports.

The private school rules are set by the athletic conference the schools are members of. The rules for the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (Gonzaga, DeMatha, etc.) are different from the rules for the Interstate Athletic Conference (Landon, St Albans, etc) or the MAC (Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, etc)

One rule they all seem to have is “No First Contact”. The schools agree they will not contact prospective athletes first. The student of his or her parents must contact the school first. But once that has been done there are very few rules. Schools can contact athletes, invite them to campus for visits and continue to communicate with them and encourage them to apply to the school.

Once the connection has been established, the coaches from the school need to be convinced that the athlete is someone they want to sponsor in the school’s Admissions process. If that is the case, they will then lobby the Admissions Committee to grant admission and to supply the necessary financial aid.

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