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[quote=Anonymous]The three posters immediately above this just have to be relative newbies to the DC high school sports world.

There has never been any interest whatsoever at Prep to join the WCAC. Even when GP football was thrown out of the IAC for being too good. It’s never been mentioned on campus let alone seriously discussed.

The principal reasons for this are:

Admissions and Tuition - Prep compares itself to “peer” schools when setting tuition rates and academic requirements. They can correctly say, “We aren’t any more expensive than fellow IAC schools.” If they were in the WCAC, they’d look a lot more like GZA and SJC which have much lower price tags. That would put downward pressure on what they could charge.

Athletics Competition - The WCAC schools are larger, less expensive, less academically selective and have different demographics. Instead of competing for Championships, Prep becomes like Northwestern in the B1G. Instead of winning the Founders Cup, like they usually do, they are in the middle of the standings in most sports, best case.

Top Tier Athletes- Prep and the rest of the IAC should appeal to good athletes especially multi-sport athletes. These are kids who will be impact players for Prep. But they would struggle to play in the WCAC and would have to commit to a single sport.

The WCAC - Its a great Conference athletically but there’s a huge amount of dissatisfaction and distrust among members. It’s dominated by a few schools. Half the Conference would like to leave and probably would if there were an alternative.

There’s reasons to be dissatisfied with the IAC. It’s too small and individual member schools sometimes stray off the beaten path by trying to be WCAC level or even National level programs. But the answer isn’t the WCAC in its current form.

The idea that GP should become IMG Academy is too far out to comment on.

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