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[quote=Anonymous]Np, but I don't think you can reject pp's comments as just sour grapes.  The issue to what degree to "recruit" for athletics is one that is constantly debated at the "academic" independents (nothing that follows is going to apply to the sports powerhouse schools, most of which are parochial and not independents anyway).  The school my child is out follows the teacher-coach model and only actively recruits for football (and even that is a hot button issue), a sport at which they are not surprisingly very good.  There is resistance, particularly among the active donor alumni (most of whom no longer have children at the school) for lowering academic standards for athletes.  Lacrosse is way more high profile than baseball, but they have a lot of home grown kids that are talented and have resisted recruiting.

The class size increases by only 20 to 30 kids at middle then again at upper school, so that doesn't leave a lot of spaces for kids who are there primarily for athletics, particularly if at least five slots are going to "football" kids.

I am in another city, but I would not be surprised to find that same issues at St. Albans and similarly academic schools.[/quote]

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