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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone tell me how academically selective Prep is -- really?  The website talks about how hard it is to get in, but some of the kids I have seen go there from our middle school were not, shall we say, the cream of the crop.  Presumably they were athletic recruits.  I know they have some top notch students, and they had a Presidential Scholar this year.  But I'm wondering if there is a big intellectual range, and if so, are all the kids mixed together in the same classes, or are there honors classes (before you get to AP in the later years) for the more academically inclined?  Thanks.[/quote]

Depends on how you define "Cream of the Crop." But I think it's fair to say that cream of the crop athletes (esp. in DC metro) are a much rarer breed than cream of the crop (i.e., straight-A) students.  And to survive at Georgetown Prep, the "athletic recruit" and everyone else needs to meet an incredibly high academic bar.  There certainly aren't any remedial classes, any grade inflation, and very few electives.  You won't get in if you can't handle the work, and you'll get counseled out if you blow it off.  So, you might want to give the Prep-bound middle schoolers who crossed your path a little more credit.  On the whole, they are probably just as gifted as anyone else you and your DC have sized up.
 
To give you a sense for range (which I believe exists at every school), Prep will send 10 kids to Ivies 2 to Stanford, a handful each to Duke, Michigan, and Northwestern this fall.  As always, Georgetown and UVA are very well represented (the prez scholar is going to UVA, BTW).  On the other end of the spectrum, there are guys heading to Boston College, Elon U., Miami of Ohio, Notre Dame, and Villanova.
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