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[quote=Anonymous]I will chime in as a parent who doesn’t bleed all purple. My son graduated a few years ago, but we didn’t send his brother bc he needed some academic support and we knew Gonzaga would not be the place to get it.

My son who graduated entered in a Covid year, so he was virtual some days and on campus some. That made a more difficult transition. He didn’t really find his group until junior year, but he found a great group when he did.

He came from a Catholic K-8 in Upper MoCo. Our school only sent one other kid to GZ that year and he was an athlete on a very popular team. My son did a sport, but not a popular sport, and wasn’t good at it. If you come to GZ knowing kids or being part of a team that’s popular, you can fit in easily. Otherwise, it may take you time to find your tribe.

Additionally, we are a very middle class family who also received financial aid. We go on one vacation a year and it’s to the beach for a week, my spouse is blue collar, we are not the country club elite. Sometimes I felt uncomfortable around families, but that’s my issue, not theirs.

I found some teachers at GZ to be great, but some to be way too rigid just for the sake of being rigid. Bc they could be. It’s the GZ way, after all.

Anyway, long way to say, we did like it, my son was a legacy there (grandfather attended), but his brother didn’t go. With any school, it’s not perfect, but it did shape my son to be compassionate, thoughtful, and he chose a Jesuit college. I don’t think he would’ve otherwise. [/quote]

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