Word: feeder
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Yale, like Harvard, suffered the perils of graduation last June. The Bulldogs lost two first-team All-Americas, record-setting midfielder Jon Reese and goaltender. Tony Guido, putting this year's squad's future into peril. The graduation of feeder Jason O'Neill and crease attackman Karl Wimer also removed some of Yale's offensive punch...
...Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, a former dean of admissions himself, says that suburban high schools, not the older schools of New England, have become the true feeder schools these days...
...There has been a steady progression away from there being a defined set of feeder schools with a move towards a particular kind of school," Jewett says...
Citing the competitiveness of Ivy League schools these days, counselors at the traditional elite feeder schools say that the prep school advantage bears little resemblance to that of the past...
Says Beewig, "We're still appreciated, but we're not in the same small circle of feeder schools as before...