Harvard and the Ivy League are totally different in just how they recruit, who they recruit, and how they pay for their athletes college education. I know that if you can get into Harvard and your parents make less than $150,000 per year, Harvard pays your way. That applies for all students! The Ivy schools have a totally different formula which limits them from recruiting just a certain number of student / athletes at the lower level of GPA, SAT, and class rank. This lower level is the acceptance point for other D-1 schools.
From East Surry we have proudly sent the Kerns sisters to college on athletic scholarships, the Bennett sisters(one to Wake and the other to Temple) to college on athletic scholarships, and Kari Fulp is at Wake Forest.
Some poster said we should not object to Prep, but should just go out and get those good student/athletes to come to East Surry. We try very hard to get every athlete at East Surry to play. In THE FALL OF 2013 12% of our enrollment was on the JV and Varsity football teams, 30 plus were on our cheerleader squads, 25 plus were on our boys JV and Varsity soccer teams, and our ROTC has over 30 on their Raiders unit. We get our students to participant. But our enrollment area has only about 13 to 14,000 people. So don't tell us to get busy and get more of our students to participate. Give us ALL OF SURRY COUNTY (INCLUDING THE MT. AIRY AND ELKIN SCHOOL SYSTEMS) THEN WE CAN COMPETE NIGHTLY WITH PREP, BISHOP, ATKINS, AND WALKERTOWN IN ALL SPORTS.