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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]

I wouldn’t call a public school high school education “vanilla.” I think you underestimate the experiences public school has to offer. [/quote]

Oh, Im quite familiar with the public school “experience” having gone through it myself along with my wife, siblings, friends, etc.

And what I have learned is one public high school in an affluent neiighborhood or town is pretty much like another. Some of this sameness is mandated by the rules amd supervision of the Board of Education.

The private school “experience” is quite different and Prep’s is unique inside that world.

We could argue about which is “better” and never agree.

One manifestation of the difference between the two is the long term enthusiasm, support and even involvement I see on the part of the students, the alumni and even the non-alumni parents in the Prep world. The difference in the experience, I believe, leads to this difference in the connection between the students and the alumni and the school.

Its not a place you have to go because of where you live and that you feel almost no connection to once walk out the doors at graduation.[/quote]

I think you need to attend a Wilson High School basketball game and I think you will quickly change your mind. The crowd alone of alumni, students, students from other schools, private high school recruits will quickly show you how it dwarfs a Prep crowd. [/quote]

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