Not at all comparable to what MAI is setting up
For whoever asked about any athletes committed, a search of instagram revealed this soccer commitment to Masters Academy. https://www.instagram.com/p/DVUOo1GAKEC
And this basketball commitment to Masters Academy https://www.instagram.com/p/DWRqGtkEUIk
Found another soccer commitment https://www.instagram.com/p/DVPSCo3gI_E
They have to offer at least AP Calc BC or no high academic student athlete would agree to go because they would then have no chance at an Ivy or Nescac or Ivy plus or even a high academic flagship D1
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AP Calc BC is NOT required for athletic recruits (or any students) at Ivy/NESCAC/Ivy+. Especially if the school doesn’t offer it, and there are plenty of HSs in the US that don’t offer AP Calc BC.
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Why is everyone in this thread obsessed with high level coursework being offered or not offered at Masters? Seems as irrelevant as the fancy dining room which was another obsession on this thread.
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Because all of their marketing and collateral stresses their high-caliber and excellent academics. If that’s not the brand they want to build they shouldn’t have touted it.
“Masters Academy International is New England’s first and only academy combining elite sports and top-tier academics to prepare leaders ready for the future – excelling in sport, school, and life.”
“At Masters Academy International, academics aren’t squeezed between training sessions – they’re an integral part of what hones an elite performer. We’ve designed a curriculum that respects the demands of our athletes while never compromising on intellectual rigor.”
So why are you asking why people are questioning the curriculum? Do you not care? If sports doesn’t work out for college admissions these kids still need to get into colleges.
I was saying they are offering AP Calc BC and people come here to say you don’t need that for IVY and such so then that becomes a moot point just like the dining room. Their whole point in bringing over the Ivy connected coaches and head of school from Avenues and the US fencing team is to feed into elite schools thru elite athletic training and elite academics. But the dining room doesn’t look like Princeton…
Did the coaches get the kids into NESCACs and Ivies or did the kids get into college because they were athletes who had graduated from Deerfield or Andover for example? Don’t conflate the situations or underestimate admission prereads especially from unestablished schools.
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No one is obsessed with MAI’s curriculum. You wrote misinformation (about recruited athletes having no chance at X schools if one didn’t have AP BC) and I corrected it. Simple.
If USA Fencing is partnering with MAI will the organization be underwriting the cost of attending for those kids?
Many were sent to prep schools like deerfield Andover winchendon and such already committed to a college by the college coach to do a PG year. I know 2 personally who did this at Exeter (Harvard lacrosse, Holy Cross baseball), both coming from elite day schools in their states. I don’t know lacrosse metrics for Ivy recruitment but you have to pitch a certain velo to get recruited from whatever school you’re coming from. And if you pitch a high level velo and have high rigor and test scores, it doesn’t matter what school you’re coming from. The coaches want you because you are over their admissions criteria for recruitment with coaches support. Andover and Deerfield have kids who go to Syracuse and Oregon. It’s not some magic bullet train into the Ivy League. Remove the legacies, questbridge, well connected, anthletes and development cases, and those elite schools don’t fare that much better than a tier or 2 lower in regular admissions.
No clue.
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We are local, and although the academics would have been a great fit for him, my kid would not have considered NEIA . His middle school could be considered a feeder at this point, but I think NEIA didn’t open until the year after he graduated (middle school). There are a lot of sports he would have been very happy playing, but none of them are offered at NEIA. Nor would he be happy with the (lower) level of competition.
Does it make a big difference? Who knows. Kids go there because they offer something that most schools don’t. Of course there will be some kids who won’t go because of the lack of sports. And there are many that go because they love the program and sports are an after thought anyway. And as you said, those kids may actually be attracted to sports not being a focus at all.
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Talked to someone from Stow today that has a son in middle school. She says all of his friends have already toured MIA and a couple have already been accepted. It will be interesting if they start to draw more than a few boys from the town middle school as the entire class is probably around 60 kids. (They combine with a few other towns for a regional high school). Around here, schools either don’t have middle school sports, or they are so non-competitive that any kid that is above average is going to play club instead. I can see them drawing a number of local middle school kids that want more sports from the high income towns nearby , even if those kids may not end up being recruitable athletes. At this point, they can always go somewhere else for high school if the academics don’t live up to other schools in the area.
Their day student rate isn’t much higher than what I imagine paying for a private school +high level training comes to. (At least for expensive sports like ice skating).
I’m still not sure how they are going to combat the weather, though. Even if they bubble their outdoor fields, who are they going to play? Club teams? BS teams whose seasons haven’t even started yet?
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Boarding school acceptances went out March 10, so I’m sure kids have been accepted (assuming they’re rejecting anyone.) Will middle schoolers go is the better metric, and how high school enrollment pans out.
I am just saying it is an expensive school that has online classes. Someone else was saying expensive schools couldn’t supplement with online classes (plenty do) and that was the first I knew of, off the top of my head- and it’s core to their curriculum (not just a class here/there)…kids are taking multiple, core classes.
Obviously, the school itself has zero to do with masters - give me a break. A 2nd grader wouldn’t say the schools were the same sort of school.
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I don’t think any real high school sports recruiting at Masters began until sports coaches went on board and some basketball coaches literally signed on last week. My assumption is the real recruiting starts now and might even continue through the summer. No way would they recruit teams without the coaches. Huge basketball coaches just signed on for both boys and girls and those seasons just ended so I’d assume there will be some commitments soon. As for spring sports that might not happen until summer. Graber from Andover baseball just announced his coaching position at Masters Academy baseball so he’s probably goiing to spend the spring and summer creating strong team. No idea with regards to skating or fencing.
Online classes, if anything, will give students competing some travel flexibility. Especially for international competitors like in fencing. I know a gymnast who was just competing in Stuttgardt and could only do it because it was his spring break. If there is an online component then international competition has no limits. Or a spring sport can head to Arizona and California to compete for the month of February when that cannot be done in New England. Maybe it’s hybrid? If they can make it work, it can be great.