Most and least snobby/elitist privates around here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

That’s snobby, not elitist. For elitist, just use the tuition as shorthand. The more expensive, the more elitist.

+1. The newly minted over $60k club:

Bullis: $61,345
Holton: $60,535
McLean School (?): $61,750
Sidwell, NCS, St. Albans, Madeira: have not announced, but likely to follow suit.

Haven’t announced? Of course they have, re-enrollment contracts have already gone out. FYI Sidwell is:

Grades PreK-2: $ 55,250
Grades 3-4: $ 58,050
Grades 5-8: $ 61,830
Grades 9-12: $ 62,330

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

That’s snobby, not elitist. For elitist, just use the tuition as shorthand. The more expensive, the more elitist.

+1. The newly minted over $60k club:

Bullis: $61,345
Holton: $60,535
McLean School (?): $61,750
Sidwell, NCS, St. Albans, Madeira: have not announced, but likely to follow suit.

Haven’t announced? Of course they have, re-enrollment contracts have already gone out. FYI Sidwell is:

Grades PreK-2: $ 55,250
Grades 3-4: $ 58,050
Grades 5-8: $ 61,830
Grades 9-12: $ 62,330

Dirt cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

That’s snobby, not elitist. For elitist, just use the tuition as shorthand. The more expensive, the more elitist.

+1. The newly minted over $60k club:

Bullis: $61,345
Holton: $60,535
McLean School (?): $61,750
Sidwell, NCS, St. Albans, Madeira: have not announced, but likely to follow suit.

McLean School is for students with learning differences. It’s not elitist, it’s just specialized.

Madeira has never given me the impression of being elitist either.

Madeira has an equestrian center.

And, yet, still a pretty down to earth student body. My Madeira girl graduates in a few months. She had a great experience. The other parents were generally delightful and you'd never know which own their own horses and which don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

People with real wealth don’t compete with social climbers. The climbers are in crab barrels with their own kind and they are hella tired. Will someone please grab them a glass of water?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

That’s snobby, not elitist. For elitist, just use the tuition as shorthand. The more expensive, the more elitist.

+1. The newly minted over $60k club:

Bullis: $61,345
Holton: $60,535
McLean School (?): $61,750
Sidwell, NCS, St. Albans, Madeira: have not announced, but likely to follow suit.

Wow. I went to church back in the 80-90s with kids who went to these schools. I was the only public school and non white kid who regularly attended (my mom made me go). I didn’t really make any friends. This takes me back to that time.

[Anonymous]

Avoid the Cathedral schools! We are at Beauvoir and are counting the days until graduation. Absolutely miserable and snobby parent community. The worst are the STA and NCS alum parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

That’s snobby, not elitist. For elitist, just use the tuition as shorthand. The more expensive, the more elitist.

+1. The newly minted over $60k club:

Bullis: $61,345
Holton: $60,535
McLean School (?): $61,750
Sidwell, NCS, St. Albans, Madeira: have not announced, but likely to follow suit.

McLean School is for students with learning differences. It’s not elitist, it’s just specialized.

Madeira has never given me the impression of being elitist either.

Madeira has an equestrian center.

And, yet, still a pretty down to earth student body. My Madeira girl graduates in a few months. She had a great experience. The other parents were generally delightful and you'd never know which own their own horses and which don't.

+1. Two years in and have only experienced nice, normal parents and kids! Love this unique school (where equestrian things are just part of its long history that involves a very small, small minority of students.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

People with real wealth don’t compete with social climbers. The climbers are in crab barrels with their own kind and they are hella tired. Will someone please grab them a glass of water?

LOL. This is amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

That’s snobby, not elitist. For elitist, just use the tuition as shorthand. The more expensive, the more elitist.

+1. The newly minted over $60k club:

Bullis: $61,345
Holton: $60,535
McLean School (?): $61,750
Sidwell, NCS, St. Albans, Madeira: have not announced, but likely to follow suit.

Wow. I went to church back in the 80-90s with kids who went to these schools. I was the only public school and non white kid who regularly attended (my mom made me go). I didn’t really make any friends. This takes me back to that time.

I graduated from one of these in the early 90s. Tuition was less than 10% of the above numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Avoid the Cathedral schools! We are at Beauvoir and are counting the days until graduation. Absolutely miserable and snobby parent community. The worst are the STA and NCS alum parents.

I feel like you have posted this same sentiment before. Can you expand on this at all?

[Anonymous]

Lowell is quite down to earth.

Clearly, there are people with a lot of money. That's true of any private school. And, it is also a lot of people making sacrifices to have their kids there. Lots of financial aid. Lots of public sector parents.

[Anonymous]

Stoneridge and Visi are snobby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NCS depends on the grade. Last year's senior class had very little flashy money. This year's class has quite a bit more extreme money and flash.

STA is a wealthier school but my older kid found his way there and we are not rich or fancy. The boys totally accepted him and he graduated with a half dozen life-long friends.

Boys socialize differently than girls might.

They are less likely to notice wealth and far more likely to notice other things.

Guys do not generally treat each other differently based on wealth, sometimes girls do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outwardly flashy social climbing types where people are sizing each other up for what they drive, where they live, etc

People with real wealth don’t compete with social climbers. The climbers are in crab barrels with their own kind and they are hella tired. Will someone please grab them a glass of water?

It depends.

People with inherited or generational wealth tend to be pretty low key about it.
They grew up around it and it's nothing special to them.
They did nothing to really earn it so they can't really be proud of it.

For the nouveau riche, they frequently worked hard or got extremely lucky or both and are living a significantly higher standard of living than they grew up with.

[Anonymous]

+1 on Lowell