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Great grades aside. Ever hear of affirmative action?

Great grades aside. Ever hear of affirmative action?

You people are [lacrosse] amazing!!! It doesn't surprise me though..

hey seems like great kids who will do well in life, but can you honestly say the reason every Ivy was bending over backwards for these two wasn't racial. You are just not being honest if you say that these two had better academic records than the hundreds of valedictorians who get rejected every year from these schools because of legacies or racial preferences. Funny how pointing out the facts these days makes you some sort of Neanderthal.

Wow you really are a pompous [lacrosse]! Did you hold your kid back and are now afraid a kid of a different race might get more recognition ? Just terrible !

hey seems like great kids who will do well in life, but can you honestly say the reason every Ivy was bending over backwards for these two wasn't racial. You are just not being honest if you say that these two had better academic records than the hundreds of valedictorians who get rejected every year from these schools because of legacies or racial preferences. Funny how pointing out the facts these days makes you some sort of Neanderthal.

Wow you really are a pompous [lacrosse]! Did you hold your kid back and are now afraid a kid of a different race might get more recognition ? Just terrible !

I fail to see how it is different than the lax player who gains admission over a valedictorian. Ivy 's want diversity. While they are not going to take you if you have a 2.0 and a 990 SAT even if you are an Aborigional, bisexual, quadrapelegic, they don't want a racially singular nerds-only student body. Congrats to all who are admitted, those who have to tough it out at lesser institutions will probably be okay.

You must be a public school graduate and failed math. Compare the number of students.

Actually it's more about his work ethic, ability to overcome obsticals. And don't forget about stellar morals, unfortunately this is what is missing from the cheating holdbacks!

Smartest kid from Long Island Last Year "PUBLIC" - NOT SILVER SPOONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to both 17-year-old Kwasi Enin of Shirley, New [lacrosse] and Avery Coffey, the 17-year-old from Washington D.C., for their extraordinary acceptances into several top-tier Ivy League schools. Enin, who is a black senior at William Floyd High School, was accepted into eight Ivy League schools, including Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University. Coffey, a resident of D.C.’s notorious 8th Ward and a soon-to-be Benjamin Banneker Academic High School graduate (and also black), was accepted into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Wow - glad to hear your kid will not be going to that liberal bastion that is Yale university - like the below
(and yes I left off both Clintons because it didn't help prove my point)


ALITO, Samuel, 1975 Law – Supreme Court justice.
ASHCROFT, John, 1964 – former U.S. attorney general.
ASPIN, Les, 1960 – former secretary of defense.
BALDRIGE, H. Malcolm Jr., 1944 – former Commerce secretary
BUSH, George H.W., 1948 – 41st U.S. president.
BUSH, George H.W., 1968 – 43rd U.S. president.
CHAFEE, John, 1944 – former U.S. senator from Rhode Island.
DANFORTH, Rev. John, 1963 Law – former U.S. senator
FORD, Gerald R., 1941 Law – 38th U.S. president.
GOSS, Porter, 1960 – former CIA director
LIEBERMAN, Joseph I., 1964, 1967 Law – U.S. senator
LOCKE, Gary, 1971 – secretary of commerce
NEGROPONTE, John D. 1960–former dir. of national intelligence
PATAKI, George, 1967 – former governor of New [lacrosse].
PROXMIRE, William, 1938 – former U.S. senator from Wisconsin.
TAFT, Robert A., 1910 – former U.S. senator from Ohio.
TAFT, William Howard, 1878 – 27th U.S. president
THOMAS, Clarence, 1974 Law – Supreme Court justice.
VANCE, Cyrus, 1939, 1942 Law – former secretary of state.
WILSON, Peter B., 1956 – former California governor.

Great list of accomplished people. Can you make that same list post 2000 graduates? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! How about 1990? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

can you list any college that have a great list of accomplished people that graduated post 2000? that could be the stupid post (SWR thread excluded) ever on BOTC

There's so much ignorance and naivete being thrown about on both sides of this debate. It's off the rails.

If you are going to call someone out as being the dumbest on back of the cage maybe you should figure out when to use THEIR or THERE in the proper context ,

Wrote the post on a smart phone, can barely see it. Let alone proof read it. Is the typo all you got over THERE? Figures...

You all are assuming that a decision to attend Chaminade has something to do with a specific sport. I can assure you that athletics might be 7th or 8th down on the list of reasons why Chaminade families have decided to go this route. Athletics has very little to nothing to do with attending the school.

The last letters for "There" and "Their" are not even close on the keypad. Sorry, but poor grammar is the call. Despite poor grammar, doesn't call for other guy's rant.

1. Education
2. Athletics
3. Faith

Then everything else……sorry.

Enough with this topic already!! We are talking about catholic schools!! Not private schools. There are better public schools on Long Island. End of story. Let it go.

Keep telling yourself that.

Your alumni say different.

Take a look on Jericho Turnpike. I do not see an education center standing there. It is a state of the art Athletic Center.

There shouldn't be any doubt that given one spot, Chaminade would admit a straight A non-athlete over a B- all-American laxer every single time. Not every Catholic school can say that.

1. Education
2. Athletics
3. Faith

Then everything else……sorry.

Wrong. You don't subject yourself to 4 years of Catholic discipline if faith is only #3. Faith, education and athletics somewhere down the list.

You are wrong! The kid don't make the decision, the parents do. I attended Catholic grammar school, high school, college and grad school. Faith is for the parents to feel better about paying. I never thought of faith as the first thing, initially it was location then sports and then cost for the degrees I wanted. Faith was lower than 3, sorry to say.

You would think that with drawing great talent from all corners of Nassau and even some Suffolk that Chaminade wouldn't be losing to small publics that only draw from a 2 mile radius like Yorktown. Somethin' aint right with that. And why are they ducking their next door neighbor GC?