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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are going to and SEC school. Oh wait...  :shock:

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good for your daughter, and obviously there are good smart kids at Bullis and very good teachers too.  They have a tougher sell by being in MoCo than the DC based schools.

With all that said, the academic reputation does lag behind most of the IAC/ISL schools.  Maybe that's outdated or unfair, but that perception exists.  The aggressive moves for sports are unlikely to counter that perception, although sports are obviously valued enough in society that perhaps it will make Bullis more attractive as a school destination regardless of impact on its academic profile.[/quote]

I think it's peculiar that you use IAC (a sports conference) to compare schools. Why would you lump a bunch of schools in a sports conference to discuss academics.

Mostly, when I look at private schools for my kids I look at location and look for a good fit. If I could not find a good fit close to my home or work then I may look outward from those locations but I would never say, hey I really want my academic kid to go to an IAC school, or a WCAC school.[/quote]

Great point!  For college, for example, would you ever say "I want my academic kid to go to an Ivy League school?"  Oh . . . wait . . .  :lol:  [/quote][/quote]

I've heard that too, but not as often as people talking about "the NESCAC schools" or the Ivy League.

It does seem odd to compare schools because they are in an athletic conference together, but even at the independent school level schools are often part of a sports conference because they see themselves as sharing a general educational philosophy and/or being the same size.  So, the New England boarding schools have leagues.  Catholic schools in this area have an athletic conference separate from the other main independent school athletic conferences, and the Catholic schools that cross over (e.g. Prep in the IAC or Stone Ridge in the ISL) do often compare themselves to the independent schools in their athletic conference in addition to or in lieu of the Catholic schools that are in the WCAC.

Will you hear people talking about "we're applying to an ISL school?" No (you might hear them mention "IAC" explicitly though.)  Will they often apply only to a universe of schools encompassed by the ISL, however?  Yes.  So talking about where Bullis stands in the context of IAC schools or ISL schools does make sense.[/quote]

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