What does VIP mean to you at a DC private

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Anonymous wrote:Any cabinet level official would be a VIP, yes. Any federal cour of appeals judge - but not district court - would also be a VIP. Some but not all Agency Directors are VIPs.

Business wise the list is likely one or two people at major corporations. Think the CEO of Marriott.

Individual schools have their own list of VIPs too. They care about different NGOs. Catholic schools may care if you’re related to a Cardinal… but other schools may not.

My spouse is a deputy secretary (one below the secretary) and we were not VIPs for admissions purposes. Some schools were fine rejecting our kids.

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I agree that some sports figures would definitely be VIPs - football, hockey, baseball, etc.

Who is NOT a VIP would be … any professor unless they qualify for another reason… average law firm partner, average CEOs, doctors, etc.

It is also true that it isn’t people are VIPs or not - there are different levels of VIPs. A junior Member of the House may be a VIP but they’re not the same as VPOTUS or the Secretary of State.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know who doesn’t see the irony in this post after reading the mother so offended that some nobody was trying to get an angle to be her friend because her kid went to a Big 3. These people do the same thing with “power players” at their own school, vying to get near them. Lmaof

That same lady is inviting the VIP kids to her child’s bday party and displaying all kinds of disgusting social climbing but making fun of with the plebeians who date do it to her for being part of an “exclusive” club.

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Political consultants and those who appear on roundtables on the Sunday news shows.

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My DS is 6 and I invite all of his classmates to his birthday party, including a big VIP. I don’t expect the VIP or their kid to show up, but if I’m inviting the whole class I’m not going to exclude their kid.

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Whoever “won” it at last year’s auction.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS is 6 and I invite all of his classmates to his birthday party, including a big VIP. I don’t expect the VIP or their kid to show up, but if I’m inviting the whole class I’m not going to exclude their kid.

That’s just so awesome of you.

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For the school it means any kid who has special security concerns and whose presence may include armed personnel in the school at any time without prior notice.

All cabinet secretaries would qualify. Kids of house and senate leadership (who qualify). Supreme Court justice kids. Foreign dignitaries with state department protectee status. Maybe others depending. But mostly it's to know who is going to have guns around them.

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The presidents and admissions deans of the selective local universities (this appears to also apply to their top grad schools too).

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Don’t care.

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Often famous people aren't really involved in their kid's school in person so honestly it's easy to forget they attend. Unless their kid is in your kid's activities or friend group, it doesn't really affect others much.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that some sports figures would definitely be VIPs - football, hockey, baseball, etc.

Who is NOT a VIP would be … any professor unless they qualify for another reason… average law firm partner, average CEOs, doctors, etc.

It is also true that it isn’t people are VIPs or not - there are different levels of VIPs. A junior Member of the House may be a VIP but they’re not the same as VPOTUS or the Secretary of State.

Man someone really hates professors on here. Clearly you have no idea that prominent tenured professors tend to have legacy and other connections to top universities, and that their kids are almost guaranteed a spot wherever they are tenured. If you think matriculation-obsessed schools don't care about that, you don't understand how the world works

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that some sports figures would definitely be VIPs - football, hockey, baseball, etc.

Who is NOT a VIP would be … any professor unless they qualify for another reason… average law firm partner, average CEOs, doctors, etc.

It is also true that it isn’t people are VIPs or not - there are different levels of VIPs. A junior Member of the House may be a VIP but they’re not the same as VPOTUS or the Secretary of State.

Man someone really hates professors on here. Clearly you have no idea that prominent tenured professors tend to have legacy and other connections to top universities, and that their kids are almost guaranteed a spot wherever they are tenured. If you think matriculation-obsessed schools don't care about that, you don't understand how the world works

And to be clear, no, not adjuncts or non-tenured professors or professors at non-prominent schools. Prominent tenured at prominent university--that matters.

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Anonymous wrote:The sports figures are far more coveted as fellow parents than the politicos. Half of our parent group is doctors and lawyers (some partners, some GCs) so that's dime a dozen. The lawyers and doctors *are* the ones drooling over the fellow parents somehow in sports.

Schools are not as excited about sports celebrities as you think they are. They rarely stay the whole time through graduation and don't usually give big gifts (despite the big contracts). But poster is right - other parents love that they are at the school.

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Who uses this word? Honestly Op, where are you hearing this used?
Special security concerns is the only thing that makes sense