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[quote=Anonymous]We had a son apply to several schools a couple years ago including Georgetown Prep. Our son wound up at another prep. Our experience at Prep was horrible. Our son plays lacrosse, but was not their recruited kid. Our son did meet with Kevin Giblin and he referred our son to speak some more to other coaches on his lacrosse staff, and at a summer camp our son also met Dan Paro who was the Athletic Director. We didn't think much of that but for gaining some knowledge about the school and our son didn't need any favoritism to get in.

What happened next was really disturbing. When we submitted the application, the admissions director immediately suggested that we not schedule an interview and also said he would refund the application fee. We were stunned and my husband wrote to Brian Gilbert. His response railed all over the place about how inappropriate it was to work outside of the admissions office for an applicant. I went straight to Georgetown Prep to ask to speak to him about it, and he would not meet me. I met with Dan Paro in the building across the way to ask what we had done wrong and he seemed pretty stunned too.

Since then Giblin soon left Georgetown Prep, and we have heard plenty of inside stories about his clashes with administrators and the admissions director. It is quite possible my son or a few kids like my son got caught in the cross fire of this internal dysfunction. Hopefully for Georgetown Prep this was a short term blip in the way they handled our son's application interest and with Giblin gone that does not repeat itself. That said, I have never come across anyone in business or other adult life less professional than Brian Gilbert. Our son was treated as a lacrosse kid and they just didn't want any more of those. Considering he is not a star player, part of me used to wish he never played that card with Georgetown Prep but the better part of me is thankful he did so we learned how seriously dysfunctional the culture of this school is.[/quote]

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