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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 09:31 - Thank you for your insight.  Since your experience is more with the athletics and GP is very sports focused, do you know how well socially boys who are not athletic fit in.  DS loves and plays on sport teams, but not "travel" and I'm not sure would make any of GP's teams, but I could be wrong.  What percentage of the student body would you say is very athletic?  I think I'm trying to figure out whether a school like GP makes sense for DS.  Are non-athletes looked down upon or is everyone accepted?  Are there enough non-althletes at the school for those boys to have a strong enough peer group?  We like many things about GP, but are not sure DS would be happiest at a school like GP because of its heavy focus on sports if he is not able to participate.  [/quote]

It's hard to fight through the images one might have of a school and get to the truth.

How many "great" athletes at Prep? Well in a Class of 110 or 120, there might be 5 or 10 really superior athletes. Then there's a core of kids that play but that won't be playing beyond high school.

The varsity football team might have 35 players. The JVs have 25 and the Freshman 25. So out of the 450 kids about a quarter play football. That leaves 360 who do not.

If you asked me to guess, I'd say at least half don't play sports seriously or at all. And if you son has any interest whatsoever, the coaches will find him for some activity. Sports like hockey and wrestling have sort of sprung up at GP to serve the kids that don't play football, basketball or lacrosse.

But the non-athletes aren't cut out of the action. Go to the games and watch "The Boosters". Dressed outlandishly they stand together and cheer and sing and act up. Not a lot of athletes in this crowd, but they are included. They do feel a part. There is a feeling of "community" at Prep. There isn't a "jock" clique that I observed. Two of our sons were multi-sport "stars" at GP, but among their close friends were kids that weren't athletes but who shared their sense of humor, their taste in music and all the other stuff that makes kids friends.

I have my list of complaints about GP after a long tenure as a parent. But I'd give the place very high marks for how the boys treat one another.

You really ought to find a recent alum .... someone who is out of college and ask them about the environement there.  
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