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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Much easier to get into Prep these days, especially if you're an athlete.  If you are an athlete, they don't care about your ethnic and/or religious background.  Just as long as you help them win games.[/quote]

That's true at just about any of these schools and it continues through to the select colleges too.[/quote]

Only school it doesn't seem to help with is STA and that may be a poor decision on their part.  Recruiting athletes is not just about creating winning teams, its also about something else, something that gets overlooked frequently.

Most folks on this board want to focus on the negative attributes of athletes, such as boorish, cliquish, uncouth behavior and entitlement.  I have found that to be the small minority of athletic kids.  Kids who are invested in team sports tend to be better at cooperating and working within groups, with peers and superiors.  Kids who grwo up playing team sports learn to work with others, how to work for the common good, and how to find their own way within the group without  taking away from the larger community effort.  These are wonderful attributes and every school needs more kids with them.

My son is a STA student.  I watched as he and his friends applied to the local private schools, most from K-8 privates in the area and a few from publics.  Some of those boys are great athletes but they struggle some with their academics.  None of those boys were admitted to STA for MS or US.  Those same boys did get admission offers from Landon, G'town Prep and Gonazga.  In several of these cases STA really missed out on an exceptional kid - a boy with exception character and drive and the  ability to add many positive aspects to a group. Just because a boy isn't a straight (or mostly) A student and isn't scoring in the 80%s and above on the SSAT, does not mean he isn't smart and a hard worker.  In fact, the kids who have to work harder at academics, and have learned a solid work ethic through sports, are the most likely to use all the resources available to them, figure it out, and end up succeeding at academics too.  I think it is unfortunate that not everyone sees the possibilities in these kids beyond their success on fields and courts.[/quote]

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