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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah this is obviously written by a Georgetown Prep supporter. Admissions is not very competivie. They take 125 boys a year. [/quote]

How “competitive” Prep is depends on who you are and what you bring to the party. And Academic records and test scores do not tell the whole story. The school does not just stack rank applicants by academic ability, draw a line through it and offer admittance to those above the line.

25 of those admissions slots are for boarders. So there are few local kid in that group.

30 or so come from Mater Dei, so that’s a about a third of the Day students. Another large chunk comes from traditional feeder schools connected to the Catholic parishes in NWDC and western Montgomery County.

[b]Those with a family connection (legacies) have an advantage, as do athletes (particularly in certain sports) and URMs. And “full pay” doesn’t hurt.[/b]

For some Admissions is easy. For others it’s highly competitive. Applicants have an advantage if the can plausibly make the case that Prep is their #1 choice and they will absolutely attend if accepted.

If you are applying to a number of schools and are hoping to select after you see where you are admitted, then your odds of admittance go down significantly. [/quote]

You're basically describing the same attributes for highly selective colleges.

Prep seems highly selective. Yes, 125 boys, but how many get rejected? Would think at least 400 or so.[/quote]

Determining the average acceptance rate (accepted/applicants) is not going to help you much. If anything, depending on what group your son is in, it might overestimate his chances.

For example, if an applicant is a legacy, good student, good athlete in a sport Prep cares about, is Catholic, is full pay and is coming from a feeder school (especially Mater Dei), his chances of admission are close to 100%.

If the applicant checks none of those boxes, their chances of admission might be 10%.

The average admission rate for applicants doesn’t have much meaning. Getting in depends on who you are, what you are and if you bring anything to the party that the school is interested in or short of.

Prep sees itself as serving a community. It’s the same community it has served for a long time. So, their admissions policies may appear “weird” to those that think they ought to depend on things like GPA and test scores. [/quote]

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