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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The perceived negative publicity actually helped Prep immensely.  Many of the articles about Kavanaugh often mentioned Gorsuch, Jerome Powell and other illustrious alumni and made reference to its average SAT score of 1386.  The reality is that most families who considered Prep tended to support Kavanaugh, and many families concluded that, notwithstanding any of the bad publicity, the school must be doing something right to have produced two sitting SCOTUS Justices and the Federal Reserve Chair.  Having a long history, great facilities and excellent athletics certainly does not hurt either.  Interestingly, Prep is one of the only schools which publishes a matriculation list that details where each graduate will attend college.[/quote]

Lots of other area schools publish this. [/quote]

You are in la la land if you think that the Kavanaugh circus was "perceived" negative publicity and that more amazingly, it helped Prep "immensely".  That publicity was ALL negative, real and not perceived.  It made Prep look like a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty.  Granted it was from the 80s, but I went to a school that looked similar to Prep in the 80s, and we had none of that going on.  The yearbook alone was a total disgrace, and that is on the Administration.  Set aside the culture issues that pervaded the school on campus and off campus.  It was a black eye, pure and simple.  That type of laundry is best not hung on the line for all to see ...  [/quote]

I grew up here and graduated from a peer school in the early 90s. Can confirm that Prep was, without a doubt, a bastion of arrogance filled with undisciplined students and faculty. [/quote]

Yes, someone who attended a completely different school is the best person to make an assessment about an entire student body and faculty. Without a doubt.[/quote]

Clearly you are too biased to see clearly .... boiled frog syndrome. [/quote]

Well, you made your bias clear . . . not only admitting you went to a peer (rival) school, but also through your hyperbole.[/quote]

I'm the poster who went to the rival school but not the frog boiler.  I don't think my assessment is the result of bias due to being a rival (frankly, Prep wasn't really our rival then in most athletics).  Do you really think that people who attended the other IAC schools like Landon, Bullis, St. Albans, or St. Stephens (when it was still just St. Stephens), or the other major catholic/private schools like Gonzaga, GDS, Sidwell or Maret didn't spend plenty of time with our peers who attended Prep?  We played sports together and against one another, were members at the same country clubs, went to the same parties, many of us went to elementary and middle school together and we all had friends (and people we didn't like) at each of these schools.  Many of us shopped the other schools in that group before settling on the one that we chose.

So, regardless of your snide remark, I'd say folks who attended one of these schools are in a pretty good position to judge Prep.  Frankly, probably better than Prep alums and I think we without the rose colored glasses of fondness for our own alma mater.  And, I'll say it again, while none of these schools in that period had any shortage of entitled, arrogant assholes (in reflecting, neither myself nor my alma mater was innocent of that) and all of them also had plenty of great kids too, I found Prep to be the worst in terms of the assholes to decent kid ratio.     [/quote]

I'm a mom not an alum but your whole a**hole ratio is pretty obnoxious and tells me a lot more about you than your rival school alums.[/quote]

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