Contracts are renewed in March, and around then is when there’s the most movement.
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In the public school world, it really picks up in July and goes right until the start of school. Sometimes even into the first few weeks. I do remember some last minute hires at S23’s BS as well.
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So Masters will not likely start to introduce academic faculty, not until July?? So it’s truly a black box academically until then. People are taking a big leap of faith, except for the known coaching.
I”m not saying they can’t hire before then. I’m saying that lots of schools get more movement later in the summer when people announce they are leaving their current positions (usually the end of June for public school, I’m assuming May for BS).
What I would expect them to have before even accepting applications is a curriculum director and department heads.
I think registering your kid for school without these positions announced would be almost neglectful.
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Boarding school teachers who are leaving tell their employers in March, when they don’t sign next year’s employment contract. So, about now.
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They may not sign their contracts in March, but does the school announce it then? I know a few teachers who announced (to students) at the very end of school or at the beginning of the summer.
Is this why there hasn’t been any academic faculty announced at Masters yet? The basketball coaches announced right after their season ended so it makes perfect sense what you’re saying about the end of the school year as the announcement time for teachers.
Found this. The job applications close March 31 so April/May must be interview and decisions for any remaining open teacher or faculty positions.
Even if the school did not formally announce it, the gossip train announced it for my kids at least. Often, they’ve known which teachers were leaving when they came home for spring break or shortly thereafter because the school was advertising open positions and bringing candidates in to interview as they left for break. The teachers that announced in May or June tended to bigger shocks, but I am unclear if the surprise was about a last minute change of plans or just because the teachers managed to keep their news quiet. Sadly one of my kids had three advisors over her four years (a couple were retirements) and each spring, her advisor told her they were leaving in March or April.
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If MAI is academically superior to IMG and IMG manages to matriculate to some top 25 schools, it seems Masters could succeed at their mission especially with the Masters coaches track records and college coach connections at the Ivies and Ivy plus. And the skaters and the fencers and the expectations of a New England parent and student
Do you realize how many seniors and PGs IMG has? 25 isn’t that much. Many of them were heading to these schools anyway but dropped in to get bigger and stronger their senior/PG year. If you’ve already got a commitment or a good verbal commitment and IMG offers you a full scholarship to a place where you can do more training/ less school, it’s attractive for a lot of kids.
Look up IMG kids on the roster of good schools for their sport. Then look up where they went to school. It’s not going to be 4 years of IMG. They don’t make the top kids. They lure in the top kids for a year after they’ve already proven themselves elsewhere.
Also remember, when you are applying to colleges, they barely see what you’ve done your senior year.
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If a kid goes to IMG for a year of training and not much school, how do they do a 180 and go to rigorous University of Chicago and do well after a year of academic hiatus?
I assume you’re talking about the kid who initially went to Deerfield and was a serious recruit at places before landing at IMG, bit still didn’t get D1 even with IMG and had an established serious academic track record outside of IMGs. That doesn’t make the case for IMG really helping with that outcome. There wasn’t a 180 in this instance if that’s your in fact your example.
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Kid left deerfield to go to IMG? Why? Where did he/she end up at school? They didn’t play their sport wherever they went? Tennis? Was the transition back to academics ok for them after the year/s off academics?
U Chicago as an athlete. Which is the student athlete I assumed you were referencing on your post to which I responded. I would probably argue he wound up at U Chicago not because of IMG’s academics or athletics but the groundwork and circumstances which happened prior to transferring there.
And I have no personal insight or info as to your other questions, and am not going to name the sport as then he’s identifiable here but google and athletic sites are available.
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Since we are talking about students, and without loss of generality, it turns out I personally know one of the students going to one of the private universities on this list. I can say confidently that this student was not admitted based on either athletic ability (not close to making the team in their sport) or academic merit. As we know, people who are willing to pay $90K to send their students to sports camp may also have influence in other ways.
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If that were true, wouldn’t every kid at expensive elite prep schools who have massive net worth get into any school they choose? In reality that doesn’t happen… I know a family who gave $7millon to an elite university and the kid was a great student at an elite prep feeder school in NYC and kid didn’t get in. Do you know first hand your examples test scores, grades, essays, personal statements?
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A big reason could be because IMG gives them a scholarship. They already have great grades and the other stuff they need. Maybe great test scores. IMG offers lots of test prep if they need to bring them up (Wink:wink: they were caught having other people take the tests) and they do offer AP classes. It’s not that their academics are in the toilet. They just don’t compare to elite prep schools. Or, they have a coach’s verbal commitment with an understanding that they have another year to put on 20 lbs of muscle, get stronger, add a pitch, etc.
You keep telling us all the reasons IMG can actually be a great school. It surely is for some. Mostly those that don’t have the means to afford it and get a scholarship or those that play on the top team for their sport by junior year and wouldn’t have access to a top team if it weren’t for IMG (due to geography and what is available). For kids that can pay to go anywhere,especially those that aren’t in the top 1% of their sport, I think they have much better choices. But, you do you. If that’s where you want to send your kid, no one is stopping you. We are just giving you something to think about.
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This is getting confusing. One user says wealthy person who went to the elite northeast prep school and allegedly had their parents make some big secret donation at the university they otherwise couldn’t have gotten into on merit or got athletics. But they may have chosen IMG because they got a scholarship? Why would they have needed one? Or there was an actual value to the extra get bigger stronger faster year and they paid for that and took some AP classes which was fine for the elite university admissions.
Why didn’t they just stay in the northeast to get bigger stronger faster if the options are much better in the northeast? Why go to Florida for inferior academics? Is the athletic training that much better?
Because they can train more hours of the day. That simple.
I’m not referring to a kid whose parents made a 7 million dollar donation. I’m referring to the average kid at a prep school whose parents can pay, but it’s a stretch.
It seems you want this to boil down to an easy answer. As I said in my last post. You do you if you are weighing this option.
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