Private HS's in LA

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know what part of LA you'll be in?

Not yet, but we'd like an urban/walkable but safe area. Does anyone know what the politics and peer pressure are like at these schools? Is there more focus on appearance than here in dc?

Where will your office or your spouse's/partner's office be located? That will help us with suggestions on where to live.

Downtown. Thanks

I am sorry. This one is tough. You, probably, wouldn't want to live there and there will be bad traffic at all hours no matter what direction you are coming from. Pretty much all suggestions you got are equally "convenient". I suggest reducing total family commute (the total of all driving time by parents and children).

It's okay. Thank you for helping

I am thinking Culver City/Mar Vista area and Windward school in Mar Vista/Palms might work.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know what part of LA you'll be in?

Not yet, but we'd like an urban/walkable but safe area. Does anyone know what the politics and peer pressure are like at these schools? Is there more focus on appearance than here in dc?

Where will your office or your spouse's/partner's office be located? That will help us with suggestions on where to live.

Downtown. Thanks

I am sorry. This one is tough. You, probably, wouldn't want to live there and there will be bad traffic at all hours no matter what direction you are coming from. Pretty much all suggestions you got are equally "convenient". I suggest reducing total family commute (the total of all driving time by parents and children).

It's okay. Thank you for helping

I am thinking Culver City/Mar Vista area and Windward school in Mar Vista/Palms might work.

Windward is also on her list

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know what part of LA you'll be in?

Not yet, but we'd like an urban/walkable but safe area. Does anyone know what the politics and peer pressure are like at these schools? Is there more focus on appearance than here in dc?

Where will your office or your spouse's/partner's office be located? That will help us with suggestions on where to live.

Downtown. Thanks

I am sorry. This one is tough. You, probably, wouldn't want to live there and there will be bad traffic at all hours no matter what direction you are coming from. Pretty much all suggestions you got are equally "convenient". I suggest reducing total family commute (the total of all driving time by parents and children).

It's okay. Thank you for helping

I am thinking Culver City/Mar Vista area and Windward school in Mar Vista/Palms might work.

Windward is also on her list

She's still looking at schools, but so far has Flintridge, HW, Buckley, Windward on her list

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Almost made to the move to LA. Did the tours and application process. LA area privates are spread out and the traffic is worse than DC. Some schools have applications due in December unlike DC where most are January.
Brentwood is good. The year we applied there were probably about 20 openings. We loved Marlborough, many of the girls are new in 7th grade. Marymount (girls) starts at 9th and takes a class of about 100. Grounds are pretty on the outside but extremely dated o the inside. May be less competitive with schools further out such as Buckley, Viewpoint.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know what part of LA you'll be in?

Not yet, but we'd like an urban/walkable but safe area. Does anyone know what the politics and peer pressure are like at these schools? Is there more focus on appearance than here in dc?

Where will your office or your spouse's/partner's office be located? That will help us with suggestions on where to live.

Downtown. Thanks

I am sorry. This one is tough. You, probably, wouldn't want to live there and there will be bad traffic at all hours no matter what direction you are coming from. Pretty much all suggestions you got are equally "convenient". I suggest reducing total family commute (the total of all driving time by parents and children).

It's okay. Thank you for helping

I am thinking Culver City/Mar Vista area and Windward school in Mar Vista/Palms might work.

Windward is also on her list

She's still looking at schools, but so far has Flintridge, HW, Buckley, Windward on her list

If she attends Flintridge Prep you can live in La Canada or Pasadena, and have a decent commute to DTLA.

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NP here. We live in Pacific Palisades; kids go to Harvard-Westlake (HW), and DH works in downtown LA (DTLA).

It's a bit of a commute to DTLA from the Palisades. If wanting to live in the Westside, I'd go towards Santa Monica or Brentwood etc.

FYI, HW's Bel Air campus is only through 9th grade, then 10-12 the kids go to a different campus, in the Valley (San Fernando Valley) just off Coldwater Canyon and Ventura Blvd. The school has a bus system.

On the HW website, if you search "matriculation" you can see the 1 year and 5 year stats of where the graduates are attending college. I do agree with a PP who says that it is tough to get into the top-top schools, because HW has a pool of very strong kids, but colleges tend to grab the top tier kids from different schools...so in another school many kids would be ranked higher given their classmates. I do not stand strongly by this statement as it's just what I've gathered so far, because my kids are not in the upper school yet and I haven't focused on it. However; HW is like a well-oiled machine in the college matriculation process.

I think you asked about clothing; this was my concern as well as my kids came from a school with uniforms, and this is not an issue bc there is a dress code, and also a student dress culture that is pretty tame.

Now this is important: In California, the UC system (University of California campuses, like UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, Berkely, etc) are mandated to take the top 10% of PUBLIC high school graduates. That does not mean your kid will get into the one of their choice, but your kid will get in somewhere. So our local school is Palisades Charter High School (Pali High), and I'm under the impression that it's easier to get into UCLA from Pali High than to get in from HW. This is because the UC's get their California resident kids from the public pool. The private HSs tend to feed to private colleges and the public HSs to the publics.

We like Pali High and continue to consider it. I've heard really good things about the San Marino/La Canada (~ over the "n") public schools. BTW I love that whole area (my brother used to live in Pasadena and now they live in Altadena)--there are lots of people from JPL (Jet Propulsion Labs) over there so it's a very science-y area, vs. the Westside which has a lot of entertainment influence (so emphasis on looks and conspicuous consumption vs. the pocket protector). But you can navigate it.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. We live in Pacific Palisades; kids go to Harvard-Westlake (HW), and DH works in downtown LA (DTLA).

It's a bit of a commute to DTLA from the Palisades. If wanting to live in the Westside, I'd go towards Santa Monica or Brentwood etc.

FYI, HW's Bel Air campus is only through 9th grade, then 10-12 the kids go to a different campus, in the Valley (San Fernando Valley) just off Coldwater Canyon and Ventura Blvd. The school has a bus system.

On the HW website, if you search "matriculation" you can see the 1 year and 5 year stats of where the graduates are attending college. I do agree with a PP who says that it is tough to get into the top-top schools, because HW has a pool of very strong kids, but colleges tend to grab the top tier kids from different schools...so in another school many kids would be ranked higher given their classmates. I do not stand strongly by this statement as it's just what I've gathered so far, because my kids are not in the upper school yet and I haven't focused on it. However; HW is like a well-oiled machine in the college matriculation process.

I think you asked about clothing; this was my concern as well as my kids came from a school with uniforms, and this is not an issue bc there is a dress code, and also a student dress culture that is pretty tame.

Now this is important: In California, the UC system (University of California campuses, like UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, Berkely, etc) are mandated to take the top 10% of PUBLIC high school graduates. That does not mean your kid will get into the one of their choice, but your kid will get in somewhere. So our local school is Palisades Charter High School (Pali High), and I'm under the impression that it's easier to get into UCLA from Pali High than to get in from HW. This is because the UC's get their California resident kids from the public pool. The private HSs tend to feed to private colleges and the public HSs to the publics.

We like Pali High and continue to consider it. I've heard really good things about the San Marino/La Canada (~ over the "n") public schools. BTW I love that whole area (my brother used to live in Pasadena and now they live in Altadena)--there are lots of people from JPL (Jet Propulsion Labs) over there so it's a very science-y area, vs. the Westside which has a lot of entertainment influence (so emphasis on looks and conspicuous consumption vs. the pocket protector). But you can navigate it.

ELC (eligibility in local context) doesn't get you into UCLA or Berkeley.

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Anonymous wrote:Almost made to the move to LA. Did the tours and application process. LA area privates are spread out and the traffic is worse than DC. Some schools have applications due in December unlike DC where most are January.
Brentwood is good. The year we applied there were probably about 20 openings. We loved Marlborough, many of the girls are new in 7th grade. Marymount (girls) starts at 9th and takes a class of about 100. Grounds are pretty on the outside but extremely dated o the inside. May be less competitive with schools further out such as Buckley, Viewpoint.

Thank you! She'd rather go coed (worried she won't know how to interact with boys in college if she doesn't, plus has had some bad experiences at girls' schools in DC), so maybe Brentwood would be good.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. We live in Pacific Palisades; kids go to Harvard-Westlake (HW), and DH works in downtown LA (DTLA).

It's a bit of a commute to DTLA from the Palisades. If wanting to live in the Westside, I'd go towards Santa Monica or Brentwood etc.

FYI, HW's Bel Air campus is only through 9th grade, then 10-12 the kids go to a different campus, in the Valley (San Fernando Valley) just off Coldwater Canyon and Ventura Blvd. The school has a bus system.

On the HW website, if you search "matriculation" you can see the 1 year and 5 year stats of where the graduates are attending college. I do agree with a PP who says that it is tough to get into the top-top schools, because HW has a pool of very strong kids, but colleges tend to grab the top tier kids from different schools...so in another school many kids would be ranked higher given their classmates. I do not stand strongly by this statement as it's just what I've gathered so far, because my kids are not in the upper school yet and I haven't focused on it. However; HW is like a well-oiled machine in the college matriculation process.

I think you asked about clothing; this was my concern as well as my kids came from a school with uniforms, and this is not an issue bc there is a dress code, and also a student dress culture that is pretty tame.

Now this is important: In California, the UC system (University of California campuses, like UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, Berkely, etc) are mandated to take the top 10% of PUBLIC high school graduates. That does not mean your kid will get into the one of their choice, but your kid will get in somewhere. So our local school is Palisades Charter High School (Pali High), and I'm under the impression that it's easier to get into UCLA from Pali High than to get in from HW. This is because the UC's get their California resident kids from the public pool. The private HSs tend to feed to private colleges and the public HSs to the publics.

We like Pali High and continue to consider it. I've heard really good things about the San Marino/La Canada (~ over the "n") public schools. BTW I love that whole area (my brother used to live in Pasadena and now they live in Altadena)--there are lots of people from JPL (Jet Propulsion Labs) over there so it's a very science-y area, vs. the Westside which has a lot of entertainment influence (so emphasis on looks and conspicuous consumption vs. the pocket protector). But you can navigate it.

Thanks for this! A PP said HW likes out of state students, would this help?

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Is Beverly Hllls below sunset (where it's much cheaper and walkable) a nice place to live? It might sound dumb to ask if a part of Beverly Hills is safe, but I don't know the area and maybe there's something I don't know about, like break ins, vehicle thefts, etc

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Anonymous wrote:Is Beverly Hllls below sunset (where it's much cheaper and walkable) a nice place to live? It might sound dumb to ask if a part of Beverly Hills is safe, but I don't know the area and maybe there's something I don't know about, like break ins, vehicle thefts, etc

It is safe. Beverly hills is very popular with Persians.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Beverly Hllls below sunset (where it's much cheaper and walkable) a nice place to live? It might sound dumb to ask if a part of Beverly Hills is safe, but I don't know the area and maybe there's something I don't know about, like break ins, vehicle thefts, etc

It is safe. Beverly hills is very popular with Persians.

Thanks!

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Not OP but are the kids more materialistic in the good publics or privates?

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but are the kids more materialistic in the good publics or privates?

In what sense?

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but are the kids more materialistic in the good publics or privates?

In what sense?

Where are the kids more likely wear expensive clothes and focus on people'ss looks?