<p>Great advice above.</p>
<p>If you took baseball completely out of the equation, I suspect you still might be tempted to put your son in the local catholic school just because of the financial burden. The other issue seems to be college matriculation: Is it worth paying for prep school if it doesn’t guarantee a great college acceptance? Maybe, maybe not…but in my experience, some do–as long as by great you don’t mean Ivy (and you don’t). What are the matriculation statistics at your prep school versus the Catholic school, athletics aside? </p>
<p>I think you might find a couple of threads on the prep school parents board helpful. The posters are mostly boarding school parents but much of the discussion applies to your situation.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1577535-boarding-school-worth-middle-class-families.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1577535-boarding-school-worth-middle-class-families.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1505215-if-you-could-do-all-over-again.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1505215-if-you-could-do-all-over-again.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1453849-will-you-send-you-kid-philips-academy-again.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1453849-will-you-send-you-kid-philips-academy-again.html</a></p>