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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i][b][i][b]Landon and Prep get kids in to excellent colleges because of their performance on the athletic field. [/b][/i]

Agree. We are surprised by how average the student body and academics are at Prep and Landon. When you look closer the truth appears. What does the list of college placement look like at these schools without the placements based on athletic scholarships/recruitments? [/b][/i]

Good question from another subject line:  [u]"What does the list of college placement look like at these schools without the placements based on athletic scholarships/recruitments? [/u][quote][/quote]

Pretty easy to approximate.

Largest group of people benefitting is lacrosse players. If the schools graduate 10 lacrosse players each that go on to play in college, that's alot.

Not all of these will go to top colleges. Maybe 4 or 5 of them. There's also a fair number who go to Lehigh, Fairfield, Penn State, etc

In football, its been a long time since there have been any football players in the Ivy league from either school.

In basketball, GP has had two boys go to Georgetown in the past several years.

So at GP with a class of 100 maybe 5 or 6 in a year benefit. Depends on what your definition of "Top" schools is.

There is, however, no doubt in my mind that almost every lacrosse player ends up in a better school than they would have if they hadn't played the sport. That's why you have this rush to it. Without lacrosse, these boys are not "recruited athletes" in any other sport.
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