Which regional private school networks are most powerful and continue after college?

[Anonymous]

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DC (GDS, Sidwell, St. A, Cathedral), NYC (Trinity, Riverdale, Horace Mann, Dalton, Collegiate, Brearley, Spence, Chapin), LA (Harvard Westlake, Brentwood, Marlborough, Crossroads), SF city (Urban, Lick, UHS), SF Bay area (Nueva, College Prep, Head Royce, Menlo, Harker, Castilleja), Chicago (Latin, Parker, North Shore, Lake Forest), Boston (Roxbury Latin, Milton, Winsor, Noble & Greenough), Philly (Germantown Friends, Haverford, Chestnut Hill, Episcopal Academy) and Boarding Schools(Andover, Philips Exeter, Lawrenceville, Deerfield, Groton, Choate, Cate, Hotchkiss).

[Anonymous]

SF & Bay is pretty powerful ... Urban, Lick, Nueva, UHS, Menlo.

Growing up together from age 6 to 18 is pretty powerful. These K-8 and 9-12 schools they feed into are pretty much lifelong networks.

My roommate intro'ed me to the entire West Coast private school scene when I was at my SLAC.

[Anonymous]

Prior to college starting these networks start merging and they all connect through social media.

[Anonymous]

Catholic schools can provide similar networks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posting as its own thread by popular demand

DC (GDS, Sidwell, St. A, Cathedral), NYC (Trinity, Riverdale, Horace Mann, Dalton, Collegiate, Brearley, Spence, Chapin), LA (Harvard Westlake, Brentwood, Marlborough, Crossroads), SF city (Urban, Lick, UHS), SF Bay area (Nueva, College Prep, Head Royce, Menlo, Harker, Castilleja), Chicago (Latin, Parker, North Shore, Lake Forest), Boston (Roxbury Latin, Milton, Winsor, Noble & Greenough), Philly (Germantown Friends, Haverford, Chestnut Hill, Episcopal Academy) and Boarding Schools(Andover, Philips Exeter, Lawrenceville, Deerfield, Groton, Choate, Cate, Hotchkiss).

these are the ones my DS and DD are most familiar with at their colleges.

[Anonymous]

I would add Tower Hill (DE), the Pingry School (NJ), Ransom Everglades (FL), New Trier (ok public, IL), John Burroughs (MO), St Johns/Hockaday/St, Marks/Kinkaid (TX), and Westminster/Padeia/Pace/Lovett (GA)

[Anonymous]

Putrid thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catholic schools can provide similar networks.

+1

[Anonymous]

Also Milton, Middlesex and Taft. My DC Ivy kid is in a friend group of these kids plus all the private Bay Area kids because many of the above boarding school kids are from the Bay Area.

[Anonymous]

I came to my SLAC so many years ago as a UMC 2nd gen immigrant from the Midwest. Despite coming from a relatively privileged background, I found the private school/prep school backgrounds I was exposed to in college to be on a whole different level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I came to my SLAC so many years ago as a UMC 2nd gen immigrant from the Midwest. Despite coming from a relatively privileged background, I found the private school/prep school backgrounds I was exposed to in college to be on a whole different level.

they still are. Nothing’s really changed.

[Anonymous]

The Deerfield network helped DC out quite a bit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SF & Bay is pretty powerful ... Urban, Lick, Nueva, UHS, Menlo.

Growing up together from age 6 to 18 is pretty powerful. These K-8 and 9-12 schools they feed into are pretty much lifelong networks.

My roommate intro'ed me to the entire West Coast private school scene when I was at my SLAC.

hmmm have to disagree here having kids at nueva and menlo

[Anonymous]

I went to a NYC school mentioned but have never used the network as I have never worked in NYC.
Also, NYC is a big place so any network is somewhat limited and there’s not a lot of crossover between the single sex and coed schools. I went to one of the girls schools and never knew anyone at Him or Dalton, and I was pretty social.
I would think going to a private in DC or similar smaller city gives you much greater connections, in that city but not necessarily anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in an upper middle class suburb of a major metro. Not the richest place with the very best schools, but well above average. Public school K-12. This network has been huge for me as we lived close together, knew each other's parents, played sports and other activities together, etc.