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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don’t understand the concept. What is it that makes someone want to be at a Catholic school so badly they are willing to go to a lot of hassle to pretend to be Catholic but not actually convert to Catholicism? [/quote]

Some Catholic schools are elite or very competitive.

Some Catholic schools provide families with a lot of social capital in certain circles.

Some Catholic schools have excellent teams for specific sports.

Some people are in a fancy neighborhood that’s in a bad public/urban school district, so they go to a k-8 and then a Catholic HS rather than move to a better district.

I live outside the DMV. The largest co-ed private, Catholic HS has the best soccer teams in the state and is seen as a way to access the inner circles of certain groups in our city. The other private HSs are mediocre or single-sex, so rich parents and soccer parents who want their kid to go to a co-ed private will do anything to get them in.

Where I used to live, people would try to game the system to get boys into a specific HS for wrestling. In another city, lacrosse. And so on.[/quote]

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