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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Wow...  The competition between Gonzaga and Landon is so toxic. They are not that different they are boys schools I think some of you are crazy. You’re not going to get your answer from this forum the people on this forum are absolutely insane. [/quote]

You are missing the point.

The gist of most of the responses to this thread is they don't compete and there is no competition. They don't compete for students, except very rarely. They serve almost entirely different groups of people. They don't compete athletically except rarely. They are in different athletic conferences.

No one has said one school or the other is bad and the other good. But they are very different by almost every measure. City vs. Suburbs. Large vs. Small. Religious vs. secular. WCAC vs. IAC. One is much more expensive than the other.

About the only similarity is they are all boys schools.

There may two more different schools in the area, but I can't think of any.[/quote]

GZ and Prep are very different but have the same students applying.

For many Prep has been a non choice with all their issues. Kids who don’t want to commute downtown are now looking at Landon.

Of all the all boys schools in this area GZ and Landon are most alike.

GZ is nothing like STA, St. anselms, the Heights ... it is way more similar to Landon.[/quote]

Since we had boys go to Prep and GZA, I can tell you the schools are much more similar than they are different. And you are right, the same boys do apply to both. And that's what made the schools similar. That and the leadership of the Jesuits and the Jesuit model of education they both share. That's also why when the boys graduate from GZA or Prep, they are much more likely to become friends with one another than with those from other schools because they have so much in common.

I'm not sure what "issues" at Prep you are talking about. A decades old sexual assault case or a Prep student or the unsubstantiated claim of assault by a girl in the 1980's. Landon's rap sheet is far from blemish-free.

I cannot think of a single way in which Gonzaga is similar to Landon. They serve different communities. Maybe there is a small group 0f Catholics who mysteriouslywouldn't consider Prep and don't want to go downtown. But that's very few people. It sounds like an express ticket out of the Catholic community to me with long lasting ramifications.

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