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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is Georgetown prep for DS who is into national level baseball. In 8th grade currently in public school, has been missing a couple weeks of school through the year for championships. Would you recommend Georgetown prep/ Good Counsel/ St John for DS to maintain good balance between academics and sports?[/quote]

Prep if he could get in - it’s a very academic school. They’re not going to take your kid if he’s not strong in the academics.

Honestly [b]I see kids who play sports at good private schools receiving athletic scholarships to top private schools that I don’t think that they could have gotten into otherwise. The average public school kid I see more going to state schools or schools you’ve never ever heard of[/b].[/quote]

Why the difference? I've heard this before but don't understand it. Is it because the teams are better at private schools because they recruit? [/quote]

I don’t know why it is, but while DD was attending private high school I was shocked to see some of the high level schools that some of the kids were recruited . These kids were good athletes but not that good and good students but not that top notch. 
I also noticed that certain clubs accepted a lot more private school kids as well. [/quote]

This varies by sport. In our area, the private schools have the most competitive lacrosse programs, so it makes sense that most of the top recruits come from there. That's not true of soccer.  It may also be the case that private school families in general focus more on perceived prestige when choosing colleges. [/quote]

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