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[quote=Anonymous]Bullis was second tier under the old administration.  Not through any fault -- more a factor of being located in MoCo where the public school option is such a good one.  Under the new admin, fairly or not, its academic reputation has deteriorated as its sports reputation has strengthened -- it is coming to be seen as a "renegade" member of its sports conferences (which, to be clear, would not be very 'renegade' compared to, say, Texas high school football).

On the sports front, for golf your youngster might be okay.  For a sport like basketball, the varsity slots will be taken up by highly recruited athletes (including from Canada, in one recent case).  To be fair to Bullis, that's increasingly the case at the other local privates as well -- they are more or less all starting to take the "Harvard road" for basketball (recruit a few "ringers").  There will still be lots of other athletic opportunities (no cut sports like track, cross country; or less high-profile sports like soccer) , but fewer in the higher profiles sports.[/quote]

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