How many good football players recently considered baseball their number one sport and football their hobby sport. Wrestlers Jerome Ward and Jahwon Awki? While the football over achieved in some minds this year the golf team did great. You never know. Give it few days. I'm sure someone will have the best incoming class of all-time.
SR does real good at Queen of Martyrs because there is a Quinn influence there, they also seem to do well at Cajetans the past few years. Fisher is the BR hub....location location location...plus there is a huge BR alumni in every class. CK seems to always favor MC in most years. A lot of MC coaches, recruiters and teachers set up camp in CK. Barnabas is done in waves. Christina seems to favor Marist....Mount Greenwood Elementary, who's enrollment is 90% Catholic, splits it up pretty well, but sends a good amount to SR
The two I heard specifically besides the general 20% up line was Linus which has been a desert the last couple years for Rita sent 8 and Christina which has its Rita MC and Marist families sent 12. Solid is what I heard about Caj and Barnabas but don't know actual numbers. I'm sure we'll all know everything by the time mass finishes tomorrow and which Freshman team will go 9-0 all 4 years
Doesn't surprise me. Boehm's out that way (QofM) and he's a good guy
The two I heard specifically besides the general 20% up line was Linus which has been a desert the last couple years for Rita sent 8 and Christina which has its Rita MC and Marist families sent 12. Solid is what I heard about Caj and Barnabas but don't know actual numbers. I'm sure we'll all know everything by the time mass finishes tomorrow and which Freshman team will go 9-0 all 4 years
I can’t speak for all CCL schools but a few have more test takers than available seats. Others limit the boy/girl ratio to close to 50/50%. So if one sex (boys or girls) got too many applicants they may turn away a few. 11 months ago the big topic here was SR went selective enrollment. Maybe a SR guy could chime in but I believe they only accepted about 75% that tested last year. St. Ignatius always has more test takers than spots. But many of those kids will be going to a magnet school. The test at Ignatius is a safety net. But at 18K it’s an expensive safety net.
There is really no right one-answer-fits-all explanation, each school is different and in different parts of their present, five-year and longer-term plans. There was a time when many schools would take any breathing, tuition-paying student so it was more of a placement exam. But now it seems it is an entrance exam and a placement exam for the majority of schools. Take St. Laurence for example, it's their first year accepting girls so there will be a learning curve to find the right number and ratio to optimize resources. CCL64's answer to Jwar was decent. I tried LWEdad but I may have left you with more questions rather than a clearer answer.
Back in my day, unless you were a legacy, you had to get at least an 80 on the exam for Ignatius to consider you. I hear Loyola is in that mid range like Marist
Ignatius is really the only school where your test score matters in your acceptance, that I know of at least. Marist will turn a few away, but if you went to a Catholic grammar school, your almost guaranteed acceptance unless your really a special case. I think Loyola is similar to Marist. Ignatius wait lists a lot of kids, many of their testers also apply at the CPS Magnet schools like Whitney and Jones and wait to see if they get in there....save 20K. This is part of the reason they moved to test dates around I was told
Add Benet to the list.
Alumni support is very important to a private schools survival. Remember 700 boys become 2310 for IHSA purposes. 700 families could not pay every cost to run a school for the year. Maintenance on the buildings can be staggering without thinking of capital improvements. Field Turf, a fitness center, new lockers, or a new gym floor?
Alek Thomas was a stud baseball player and he played football for 4 years at MC. Maybe their stud QB (tough to say an 8th grader is a stud QB) plays football all 4 years in addition to baseball.
Admissions does not always equal recruiting. As for the wake up call - we've had the same President for past 7 years who has never been called to the table like what will happen. Plus many of his do nothing allies are off the board now.
Rice has O'C as the main guy but he has Frasor in the recruiting department with him. They did really well with the neighborhood schools, they got some real nice players from the South side Catholic league, they just laid an egg everywhere else. As far as football goes, they went hard after players outside of the neighborhood since Badke started, and while they had a couple good seasons, they made the quarters once, 2 one and dones, and 2 no appearances since he took over, I don't think people where buying what they were selling anymore, especially after going 2-7 this year.