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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Landon needs to focus more on the academics and less on the athletics. But with the current administration and board in place it will be a cold day in hell before that happens.[/quote]

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Wake up, Landon! We alums aren't going to send our boys to a school that remains stuck in the past. Evolve or continue to lose money and applicants. Your choice. [/quote]

OP here. I totally agree with you two. Seems like there is a vocal opposing view to ours

I have nothing against athletes and played 2 varsity sports myself at Landon. That is not the point.

The point is that the school unusually and inappropriately promoted Lacrosse in a newsletter to its alumni base. And for some reason lacrosse is singled out above all other sports and all other achievements of these boys who got accepted to colleges early. Implication - they were recruits and not admitted based on merits even if that is far from true

By the way, the list of early acceptance colleges is below. I will leave it to others to opine on the quality of these schools relative to other top area private school admissions

(as of 1/25/13):

Allegheny (2)	 Northwestern
 Brown	 Oberlin
 Charleston (2)       	 Oglethorpe
 Colgate	 Ohio State
 Colorado (3)	 Ohio Wesleyan (2)
 Cornell (3)	 Penn (4)
 Davidson	 Penn State (2)
 Delaware (2)	 Princeton
 Duke	 Purdue
 Elon (2)	 Sewanee
 Fairfield	 Southern Methodist (2)
 Fordham	 Stetson           
 Furman (3)	 Syracuse
 Georgia Tech	 Tulane (2)
 High Point	University of Illinois 
 Hillsdale	 UNC-Wilmington
 Kenyon	 UVA (5)
 Lafayette	 Vermont
 MIT	 Wake Forest
 Northeastern	 Williams

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