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That being said, there is within a Catholic Education a preference for other Catholic schools. That's why so many MD students go to Prep and Gonzaga and why so many Prep and Gonzaga students opt to attend Georgetown, Notre Dame, Boston College and other Catholic colleges and universities. [b]It's a "Catholic thing. You wouldn't get it.[/b][/quote]

This says so much. For the families I know who send kids to MD and two other local popular Catholic schools, this attitude is common. I feel like it is like high school with the in crowd/out crowd all over again! [/quote]

It's hardly like high school. There isn't an In or and out crowd. But here is a large section of the population who have a great deal in common and they tend to concentrate their family and social lives in this Catholic community.

It's a very interesting phenomon. But it has its roots in the history of the Irish in the US and in DC. Until the great wave of Irish immigration in the 1840's and 1850's, Catholics were really just another Christian sect. When the Irish arrived they insisted on their own schools, their own clubs, their own everything. Check the roster at Columbia Country Club and tell me what you see.[/quote]

Good gracious, open a history book and read about the Nativism of the 1840s and 1850s.[/quote]

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