Football multiplier is 2 for a public school kid who enters private system in 9th grade.wobycat wrote:If you have players, that haven't been there since junior high, then they count as 8 individuals. My guess there are a few on the team. They may not be accepted next year, unless they run a 4.4. Then a poor golfer gets his scholarship pulled.
This talk about golf scholarships is absurdly ignorant of how the admissions system at Hartley works. There's no money there for that. We don't have millionaire underwriters funding sports scholarships. It takes 5 years of arm twisting and nickel rubbing to scrape together enough money for turf, non-obstructing light poles, bleachers that don't collapse when the visitors get excited, and flush toilets.
Extracurricular participation is an admission criteria but school play, bench-warming, and super stardom all count the same. I don't know what they do at better funded schools with a long history of disproportionate athletic success like Ursuline, Mooney, or SVSM. I never had a kid apply at any of those schools. I think an open, honest, and objective audit/review of admissions practices at Hartley would reveal a system that operated the same as admissions works at Portsmouth ND, Rosecrans, Fisher, and Newark Catholic. Nothing changed from when the Hawks didn't consistently compete well in football other than a new coach who earned a state title in his second year with a team full of guys with the same bunch of last names that the fans have been hearing for the last 20-30 years. There was a placement test introduced last year to spare families the $8-16K expense of figuring out that their child wasn't adequately prepared for the academic rigor of a serious college prep secondary school. There's no "dumb jock" exception to the academic standards.
Public or private, the best explanation for a change in the continued success of an athletic program is the coach, and that's what happened at Hartley.