Lacrosse Culture at St Albans?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Relying on a high school alumni network, really?

Really.

If you have lived in this area for some time, it becomes clear how the network of private high schools especially the all boys schools like Landon and Gonzaga really do look in an almost obsessive way to help out their fellow alums.

Not the PP and I have lived in the area for 50 years. This is an area where people come and go and alumni networks are important. I have never once heard of someone getting a job based on a HS alumni network. This is a lacrosse forum so it is same to assume that these are kids that will likely look to play college lacrosse. Schools like W&L, UVA, Ivies, Tufts, ect.. do have very strong alumni networks. I know of companies in finance and commercial real estate that do like to hire lacrosse players. At what point to you bypass the college alumni network to rely on the HS one??

You don’t bypass either. That’s what makes the private school + college lacrosse network so potent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Relying on a high school alumni network, really?

Really.

If you have lived in this area for some time, it becomes clear how the network of private high schools especially the all boys schools like Landon and Gonzaga really do look in an almost obsessive way to help out their fellow alums.

Not the PP and I have lived in the area for 50 years. This is an area where people come and go and alumni networks are important. I have never once heard of someone getting a job based on a HS alumni network. This is a lacrosse forum so it is same to assume that these are kids that will likely look to play college lacrosse. Schools like W&L, UVA, Ivies, Tufts, ect.. do have very strong alumni networks. I know of companies in finance and commercial real estate that do like to hire lacrosse players. At what point to you bypass the college alumni network to rely on the HS one??

You have lived in the area for 50 years but are somehow oblivious to the networks associated with these high schools?

In Washington in many social and professional circles where you went to high school is more important than where you went to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Relying on a high school alumni network, really?

Really.

If you have lived in this area for some time, it becomes clear how the network of private high schools especially the all boys schools like Landon and Gonzaga really do look in an almost obsessive way to help out their fellow alums.

Not the PP and I have lived in the area for 50 years. This is an area where people come and go and alumni networks are important. I have never once heard of someone getting a job based on a HS alumni network. This is a lacrosse forum so it is same to assume that these are kids that will likely look to play college lacrosse. Schools like W&L, UVA, Ivies, Tufts, ect.. do have very strong alumni networks. I know of companies in finance and commercial real estate that do like to hire lacrosse players. At what point to you bypass the college alumni network to rely on the HS one??

You have lived in the area for 50 years but are somehow oblivious to the networks associated with these high schools?

In Washington in many social and professional circles where you went to high school is more important than where you went to college.

I think it is fair to say that both networks exist. Prep, Landon and Gonzaga have especially fierce and loyal alumni networks. Colleges obviously do as well, especially among certain affinity groups at certain colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Relying on a high school alumni network, really?

Really.

If you have lived in this area for some time, it becomes clear how the network of private high schools especially the all boys schools like Landon and Gonzaga really do look in an almost obsessive way to help out their fellow alums.

Not the PP and I have lived in the area for 50 years. This is an area where people come and go and alumni networks are important. I have never once heard of someone getting a job based on a HS alumni network. This is a lacrosse forum so it is same to assume that these are kids that will likely look to play college lacrosse. Schools like W&L, UVA, Ivies, Tufts, ect.. do have very strong alumni networks. I know of companies in finance and commercial real estate that do like to hire lacrosse players. At what point to you bypass the college alumni network to rely on the HS one??

You have lived in the area for 50 years but are somehow oblivious to the networks associated with these high schools?

I am not sure what area you are describing but it does not sound like the DC area. First, a majority of influential people in the area are not from this area and did not attend HS here. This is one of the most transient metropolitan areas in the world. Second, many of the people I know that did attend schools like St Stephens as it was called back then, Bullis, Landon, St. Albans, Zaga, ect... often move out of the area. I do not dispute that there are networks of alumni but not nearly as influential as those in NY, Boston, Baltimore ect... My point is that the college network, lacrosse alumni, fraternity is usually more influential. It is not that the other does not exist you may be over estimating in in my opinion. You sound like a person who want to justify the tuition expense.

In Washington in many social and professional circles where you went to high school is more important than where you went to college.