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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Completely anecdotal, but in the early 90's I was graduating from a Potomac middle school. (1 of the 2).  Myself and 4 other classmates applied to Prep.  Two of us were white Episcopalian.  Two were Persian (1 Muslim the other Bahai) and only 1 was Catholic (and he was of east Indian decent).  Not one traditional Irish Catholic among us.

All 5 of us were accepted.  We were all pretty smart kids.  A/B students.  I scored in 99% on the PSAT's (think that's the test we took back then).  Imagine my friends had good test scores too.  All 5 of us went out for the freshman football team and played other sports. Solid athletes but no super stars.  None of us had any family connections or any other kind of connections that I know of.  All were full pay.

Not saying that this is indicative of how Prep operates today but public school kids do get in.  There were kids from other public middle schools too.  Not many but some.  And when I was there there were definitely border students that were getting financial aid.[/quote]

in your last paragraph you do say that there weren’t many public school kids there. And that the public school kids you knew were all full pay.

So you agree with the post you replied to. The great majority of the student body were Catholics who went  to Catholic grammar schools.

The composition of the Prep borders has changed almost completely since you were there. Now it’s very heavily International students and they are all full pay at an outrageously high rate.[/quote]

Yeah I agree with the earlier post.  The vast majority of kids were from Catholic parochial schools and Mater Dei. LOTS of Mater Dei kids. Maybe 25-30 in our class.

There were a couple (2 that I can think of off the top of my head) borders that were almost certainly on FA.  Plenty of Asian borders (maybe 50%) when I was there.

I can think of 7 kids in my class that came from public schools but I feel like there has to be at least a couple that I'm just not remembering.   Not exact figures but I don't think they're too far off.[/quote]

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