Stupid question about elite private high schools

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Anonymous wrote:I bought a superior education, but more importantly, I bought a peer group and social currency.

Is that what you really wanted to know OP?

College admit is not the highest concern.

There is SO MUCH more to it than a top tier college admit.

You’re delusional. 5 years (or even less) out of college and barely anybody cares what college you went to. And certainly nobody gives a damn what high school you went to!

My spouse works with elite Ivy League grads and nobody ever, ever talks about what freakin high school they went to. It’s not on their professional bios, not on their LinkedIn profiles, not in their conversations. Nothing.

False. You must be looking at LinkedIn profiles from a bunch of public school graduates (who most likely do NOT put their high schools on their LinkedIn profiles).

Tip: 1. Go to LinkedIn; 2. Type in individual (one name/search) names of elite independent high schools (eg, Noble and Greenough, Horace Mann, HW, Sidwell Friends, St. John's (Houston), etc); 3. Come back and tell us what you find. 😝

Anyone including their HS on their LinkedIn profile better be either still in HS or at most a Freshman in college. 🙄

For graduates of elite high school it would be normal. They have strong alumni networks and some view it as more impressive than attending an elite college. You are clearly not in the know.

No you clearly are not in the know. If I want to seek out people from my elite private HS, I’m not turning to LinkedIn when I can just turn to the alumni person at the school, or put out feelers within my own actual alumni network to make personal connections, or show up at any of the events where said alumni network will be in attendance.

Also, there are more selective ways to connect than just LinkedIn, for instance the programs and social networks specific to your actual field.

It always funny seeing people on here talk about elite HS or college networks who clearly have no idea how they actually work.

That’s you. A lot of people wouldn’t bother going through their high school alumni office (middle man), when they can just lookup their high school’s graduates, via LinkedIn. I don’t understand why that’s so hard for some of you to grasp.

Why stop at high school? Why not list your private middle or elementary school on LinkedIn too?

No doubt that a lot of mediocre bankers and lawyers put their private high schools on LinkedIn. But ZERO top rainmakers or managing partners do. Zero.

My how the goalposts keep moving. I bet I could find “top rainmakers or managing partners” with one of the elite high schools listed on their LinkedIn profiles in less than 5 minutes. But then, you would just move the goalposts again…

I just searched Deerfield Academy and the vast majority (like 90%) are either current college students, kids who graduated college in the last three years, people who work at boarding schools or provide services (teachers at other schools, work in admin, provide services to help kids get into boarding schools, etc).

Very few say 30+ people and even then, many who work fairly normal jobs…not top rainmakers or managing partners…though I did find one who is an MD at a prop trading firm.

Going in reverse and looking at the CEO of GS, top Blackstone MDs, etc., I didn’t see a single one listing their high schools (I know the CEO of Goldman went to Scarsdale HS…so not a fancy private).

Perhaps none attended fancy private high schools which is why they didn’t list them.

Deerfield wasn’t on the list upthread. I just searched for 1 minute on Google, and found 2 Sidwell alums who are partners at major law firms. They graduated from college well over 10 years ago.

It’s one of the most elite schools there is.

I just searched Sidwell on linked in. It’s similar results. The vast majority are currently in college or fairly recent grads or work in private schools.

It makes perfect sense that young people list their high schools on LinkedIn…you are just filling in the prompts that LinkedIn gives you.

You will find any successful person’s high school through Google because that is what you are looking for. Again, if you search Scarsdale HS and private equity MDs, a ton will come up…doesn’t mean those same people are putting that in their LinkedIn profile.

You chose to ignore my post because it doesn’t fit your narrative. You (or someone else commenting on this topic) said I would find “ZERO top rainmakers or managing partners” who list their high school on their LinkedIn profile (in this case Sidwell). I found two partners at major law firms in about one minute. Case closed, my point made, move along.

For what it’s worth, I’m a partner at a major law firm and have my private high school on my LinkedIn. It’s mostly to help alumni looking for an in at my firm (I get 1-2 reach outs a year from law students who went to my high school) but I did recently have a potential client mention it positively during a pitch ($7+ bil company).

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Anonymous wrote:I bought a superior education, but more importantly, I bought a peer group and social currency.

Is that what you really wanted to know OP?

College admit is not the highest concern.

There is SO MUCH more to it than a top tier college admit.

You’re delusional. 5 years (or even less) out of college and barely anybody cares what college you went to. And certainly nobody gives a damn what high school you went to!

My spouse works with elite Ivy League grads and nobody ever, ever talks about what freakin high school they went to. It’s not on their professional bios, not on their LinkedIn profiles, not in their conversations. Nothing.

False. You must be looking at LinkedIn profiles from a bunch of public school graduates (who most likely do NOT put their high schools on their LinkedIn profiles).

Tip: 1. Go to LinkedIn; 2. Type in individual (one name/search) names of elite independent high schools (eg, Noble and Greenough, Horace Mann, HW, Sidwell Friends, St. John's (Houston), etc); 3. Come back and tell us what you find. 😝

Anyone including their HS on their LinkedIn profile better be either still in HS or at most a Freshman in college. 🙄

For graduates of elite high school it would be normal. They have strong alumni networks and some view it as more impressive than attending an elite college. You are clearly not in the know.

No you clearly are not in the know. If I want to seek out people from my elite private HS, I’m not turning to LinkedIn when I can just turn to the alumni person at the school, or put out feelers within my own actual alumni network to make personal connections, or show up at any of the events where said alumni network will be in attendance.

Also, there are more selective ways to connect than just LinkedIn, for instance the programs and social networks specific to your actual field.

It always funny seeing people on here talk about elite HS or college networks who clearly have no idea how they actually work.

That’s you. A lot of people wouldn’t bother going through their high school alumni office (middle man), when they can just lookup their high school’s graduates, via LinkedIn. I don’t understand why that’s so hard for some of you to grasp.

Why stop at high school? Why not list your private middle or elementary school on LinkedIn too?

No doubt that a lot of mediocre bankers and lawyers put their private high schools on LinkedIn. But ZERO top rainmakers or managing partners do. Zero.

My how the goalposts keep moving. I bet I could find “top rainmakers or managing partners” with one of the elite high schools listed on their LinkedIn profiles in less than 5 minutes. But then, you would just move the goalposts again…

I just searched Deerfield Academy and the vast majority (like 90%) are either current college students, kids who graduated college in the last three years, people who work at boarding schools or provide services (teachers at other schools, work in admin, provide services to help kids get into boarding schools, etc).

Very few say 30+ people and even then, many who work fairly normal jobs…not top rainmakers or managing partners…though I did find one who is an MD at a prop trading firm.

Going in reverse and looking at the CEO of GS, top Blackstone MDs, etc., I didn’t see a single one listing their high schools (I know the CEO of Goldman went to Scarsdale HS…so not a fancy private).

Perhaps none attended fancy private high schools which is why they didn’t list them.

Deerfield wasn’t on the list upthread. I just searched for 1 minute on Google, and found 2 Sidwell alums who are partners at major law firms. They graduated from college well over 10 years ago.

Who the F care about the high schools one goes to! Only the striver parents who want to gain some social climbing from their kids' schools. DCUM is full of sad losers.

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Anonymous wrote:I bought a superior education, but more importantly, I bought a peer group and social currency.

Is that what you really wanted to know OP?

College admit is not the highest concern.

There is SO MUCH more to it than a top tier college admit.

You’re delusional. 5 years (or even less) out of college and barely anybody cares what college you went to. And certainly nobody gives a damn what high school you went to!

My spouse works with elite Ivy League grads and nobody ever, ever talks about what freakin high school they went to. It’s not on their professional bios, not on their LinkedIn profiles, not in their conversations. Nothing.

False. You must be looking at LinkedIn profiles from a bunch of public school graduates (who most likely do NOT put their high schools on their LinkedIn profiles).

Tip: 1. Go to LinkedIn; 2. Type in individual (one name/search) names of elite independent high schools (eg, Noble and Greenough, Horace Mann, HW, Sidwell Friends, St. John's (Houston), etc); 3. Come back and tell us what you find. 😝

Anyone including their HS on their LinkedIn profile better be either still in HS or at most a Freshman in college. 🙄

For graduates of elite high school it would be normal. They have strong alumni networks and some view it as more impressive than attending an elite college. You are clearly not in the know.

No you clearly are not in the know. If I want to seek out people from my elite private HS, I’m not turning to LinkedIn when I can just turn to the alumni person at the school, or put out feelers within my own actual alumni network to make personal connections, or show up at any of the events where said alumni network will be in attendance.

Also, there are more selective ways to connect than just LinkedIn, for instance the programs and social networks specific to your actual field.

It always funny seeing people on here talk about elite HS or college networks who clearly have no idea how they actually work.

That’s you. A lot of people wouldn’t bother going through their high school alumni office (middle man), when they can just lookup their high school’s graduates, via LinkedIn. I don’t understand why that’s so hard for some of you to grasp.

Why stop at high school? Why not list your private middle or elementary school on LinkedIn too?

No doubt that a lot of mediocre bankers and lawyers put their private high schools on LinkedIn. But ZERO top rainmakers or managing partners do. Zero.

My how the goalposts keep moving. I bet I could find “top rainmakers or managing partners” with one of the elite high schools listed on their LinkedIn profiles in less than 5 minutes. But then, you would just move the goalposts again…

I just searched Deerfield Academy and the vast majority (like 90%) are either current college students, kids who graduated college in the last three years, people who work at boarding schools or provide services (teachers at other schools, work in admin, provide services to help kids get into boarding schools, etc).

Very few say 30+ people and even then, many who work fairly normal jobs…not top rainmakers or managing partners…though I did find one who is an MD at a prop trading firm.

Going in reverse and looking at the CEO of GS, top Blackstone MDs, etc., I didn’t see a single one listing their high schools (I know the CEO of Goldman went to Scarsdale HS…so not a fancy private).

Perhaps none attended fancy private high schools which is why they didn’t list them.

Deerfield wasn’t on the list upthread. I just searched for 1 minute on Google, and found 2 Sidwell alums who are partners at major law firms. They graduated from college well over 10 years ago.

Who the F care about the high schools one goes to! Only the striver parents who want to gain some social climbing from their kids' schools. DCUM is full of sad losers.

Yet here you are…posting on DCUM. 🙄

You sound envious. Obviously, the Ivy+/T20 grads care enough to list THEIR OWN elite high school on their LinkedIn profiles, long after they graduated from high school and college. Just say your broke, mediocre public school @ss can’t relate and move along. Everything isn’t for everyone.

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About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

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Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

They could have attended high school on scholarship or financial aid.

For what it is worth, my elite high school was much more challenging than the ivy college I attended. Looking back, that was the more important one for me.

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Once you get in you’ll see that sure, a top college admission is the cherry on top but it is definitely not the sole goal of private school. There are certain schools that aren’t on the top 10 list but that are very popular with specific private school communities and often they trump “the list”. Off the top of my head I know of three colleges that are extremely popular with our daughter’s school and a couple of other neighboring privates. There is a social aspect to attending these schools and they are not at all top 10.

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Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

They could have attended high school on scholarship or financial aid.

For what it is worth, my elite high school was much more challenging than the ivy college I attended. Looking back, that was the more important one for me.

It is just silly to brag about one s high school.

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Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

They could have attended high school on scholarship or financial aid.

For what it is worth, my elite high school was much more challenging than the ivy college I attended. Looking back, that was the more important one for me.

It is just silly to brag about one s high school.

In academia nobody cares where you go to college letting alone high schools. Maybe grad school matters a little. It all matters what you have done and contributed to field. Bragging about schools shows you had little else to show! It is all just stupid ego boost for losers.

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Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

They could have attended high school on scholarship or financial aid.

For what it is worth, my elite high school was much more challenging than the ivy college I attended. Looking back, that was the more important one for me.

The school didn’t give FA back then. Ask me how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

They could have attended high school on scholarship or financial aid.

For what it is worth, my elite high school was much more challenging than the ivy college I attended. Looking back, that was the more important one for me.

It is just silly to brag about one s high school.

I wouldn't see it as bragging but more just stating a fact. It tells you where someone grew up at the very least and may spark a conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

They could have attended high school on scholarship or financial aid.

For what it is worth, my elite high school was much more challenging than the ivy college I attended. Looking back, that was the more important one for me.

It is just silly to brag about one s high school.

You should ask yourself why you think it’s bragging for someone to simply list their high school on their LinkedIn profile. It sounds like you’re projecting.

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Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago, I reviewed a resume that included the candidate’s pricey private HS. It was pretty funny.

They could have attended high school on scholarship or financial aid.

For what it is worth, my elite high school was much more challenging than the ivy college I attended. Looking back, that was the more important one for me.

It is just silly to brag about one s high school.

You should ask yourself why you think it’s bragging for someone to simply list their high school on their LinkedIn profile. It sounds like you’re projecting.

It i ok to list to connect with old classmates etc. but I doubt it has any real impact on career.

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We pay $50k per year per kid so my kids only socialize with and date from similar families. They will go to good, but not the top colleges, but I care a lot more about curating their friend groups in high school.

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Anonymous wrote:We pay $50k per year per kid so my kids only socialize with and date from similar families. They will go to good, but not the top colleges, but I care a lot more about curating their friend groups in high school.

What are you going to do if your kids end up dating “poor” kid from that “good but not top college”?

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Anonymous wrote:We pay $50k per year per kid so my kids only socialize with and date from similar families. They will go to good, but not the top colleges, but I care a lot more about curating their friend groups in high school.

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