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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One third from mater dei is a different kind of pressure cooker definitely. [/quote]

Eh, yes and no.

A lot of parents send their kids to Mater Dei to catch up—oftentimes starting off by repeating the grade they completed elsewhere. This gives the kid an extra year to mature and develop better study habits (and catch up in math).

This isn’t unique to MD and Gtown Prep. I know boys who strategically enroll in a grade they just completed when to better equip them for a prep school environment.

I also don’t think Gtown Prep is especially rigorous. If you went to a single-sex catholic high school, you realize they are all pretty much the same.

The real difference is demographics. Some schools do an excellent job of providing need-based financial assistance while others are just the logical landing place for certain affluent families.

The good news is that GP isn’t the pre-frat boy jerk factory it was in the 1980s/90s etc.

Having said that, the school did retain its reputation for launching entrepreneurs: at least one student (who graduated within the last handful of years) made quite a bit of money selling high quality fake ids…primarily to kids in local public schools. [/quote]

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