If you’re from DC/ East Coast

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re from DC or the northeast, so you still find Chicago to be a great city? Do you find New Trier and the Glenbrooks to truly be on par with TJ or Stuyvesant for example, or are they just top schools for Illinois (which has terrible schools overall)? What would be the DC/NOVA/MD equivalent to Maine South?

I’m asking because all I hear is about how pressure cooker NT is, but my experience in Illinois so far is that these are not the sharpest people I’ve met around. I’m wondering if New Trier families and students have a lot of wealth but in terms of education are more on par with say Marshall or Wilson High rather than Langley.

You're right. Illinois is a sh*t hole. You should go back to DC to be among your own kind. We truly don't deserve your brilliance.

[Anonymous]

We’ve lived all across the country and Chicago’s North Shore was the best. New Trier is a fabulous school but it is huge with over 4000 kids - way to big for us. Our kids went to Lake Forest HS and it was excellent with less than half the students as NT. Two of our four went to Ivy’s and they weren’t great athletes or legacies, just very good students. We’ve lived in NY area, CA and DC and our happiest years were north of Chicago. Yes, the winters are long but the summer is wonderful. And the people were much friendlier than in the other areas we lived.