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Those were the days in which Mike Horsey made all the decisions on who was admitted and who got FA. He ruled with an iron hand and no one on campus wanted to take him on. The Admissions committee, such as it was, was a rubber stamp.

He probably thought that five academically- oriented kids from Potomac weren’t going to rock the Prep boat too much.

The current ADmissions guy was probably at Prep when you were there or shortly after. He doesn’t have the same power and needs to be very careful about who he admits.[/quote]

LOL!  Yup.  I remember my interview with Horsey!  I had just gotten straight A's first quarter of 8th grade (best quarter of my middle-school career) and I went in and told him that I liked the camaraderie at Prep and wanted to play football.  He told me right then and there that barring an academic meltdown during the rest of 8th grade I was in.

Never knew any of the behind the scenes politics but definitely remember Horsey.[/quote]

What the parents on here looking at schools and evaluating them don’t seem to grasp is the value of the camaraderie at Prep. They can’t quantify it and put that into a mental or actual spreadsheet. Many of them don’t understand it based on their own vanilla experience at public high schools.

Their idea of a high school experience seems to be solely as preparation for college and gaining admittance to the “best” (in their view) college possible.

Our Prep sons loved the experience. The best descriptor I heard of the place was “idyllic”.[/quote]

Right. No one else at any other school had a great high school experience. No one has great friends, camaraderie, and memories from any public school ever. So no one could possible understand how much more special Prep is.  :roll: [/quote]

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