Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman lacrosse team will try to make it three in a row over the top New England prep school lacrosse team when it meets Andover here at 3 p.m. this afternoon...
...size of the individual school's delegation is getting smaller, at the same time the list of schools sending five or more students (including the bigger prep schools and the better public schools) has undergone a slight shift in favor of the private schools. Thirteen public schools contributed five or more boys to the Class of '58, only nine sent this many to '61. But in the same period, the number of prep schools sending five-man delegations rose from 19 to 25 (with 27 for the class of '60). Although public schools contributed more to '62 than to previous...
...impact of Ivy League standards extends down to prep schools and the better public schools. "We would like to have an entrance examination," says Mr. Hopkinson at Boston Latin, "but we have to consider anyone who has a B average in grammar school." Private schools become more selective as their numbers grow. Scholarships aim toward providing economic and geographical diversity, as well as financial aid. Some schools, like Exeter, do not wait for outstanding boys to apply, but actively seek them. In Iowa, for instance, Exeter finds out the names of outstanding newsboys from the Des Moines Register and Tribune...
Other private schools, which have a tradition of admissions at the eighth or seventh grade level, find many of the same problems, slightly altered, that Harvard does. The record of a child who has reached the eighth grade is an uncertain thing at best. A boy who starts prep school this early and does not do well scholastically will be outdistanced further and further as outstanding "new boys" come in to his school...
...alumni son looms stronger and stronger. Chances are he doesn't need a very large scholarship, if any at all, and he has probably been very well prepared. A study of Ivy League alumni sons made recently points out that 80 to 90 percent of this group goes to prep school. In recent years, the policy has been to give the Harvard son "the benefit of the doubt" in border-line cases. But as this group grows in numbers, decisions will become more difficult...