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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is great news for STA and especially those in the STA community that still support the scholar-athlete model and are fighting to keep STA in the IAC.[/quote]

Bravo on this point. The sad truth is that people in the STA community have to "fight" to keep the scholar-athlete relevant at the school. The admissions head has not done his job in terms of finding the scholar-athletes to populate the contact sports teams. This type of job performance would result in a pink slip at most of the schools against which STA competes. For those families whose sons play on the contact sports teams, there is a certain "The Few, The Proud" attitude that exists, but it is an attitude borne out of making the best of a bad situation. At some point, STA will need to address the lack of numbers in terms of players and size of the players themselves on the football, basketball and lacrosse teams. I expect a drop in the amount of contributions will be the needed "kick in the pants" to reverse the obvious trend at STA. [/quote]

I think, if I'm reading this correctly, the poster implies that St. Albans is doing a worse job in admissions than Landon, Prep, St. Stephens?  My goodness, that is myopic.  The last time I checked St. Albans was still a school, correct?  So the problem with lots of academically strong applicants who go on to be very successful high school and college students is what, exactly?  [/quote]

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