Listing Fancy High School on LinkedIn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to TJ and it’s on my LinkedIn.

Me too. It’s been a networking boon.

[Anonymous]

List your PhD institutions only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend who went to Columbia undergrad and Johns Hopkins graduate school said her alumni network thru St Paul’s boarding school had been waaaaaay more helpful and influential for her career opportunities. Ymmv.

“Ymmv” is like nails on a chalkboard. Such a stupid expression. Can we please kill it?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread had a woman lauding APS but attended Sidwell, as identified from her LinkedIn profile.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1091696.page

I’ve seen Palo Alto High School, Deerfield Academy, NCS, all sorts of private high schools.

For the most part, you are admitted to college on your merits (I know that is up for debate) but the high school you attend is 99% the efforts of your parents (even a magnet, since they likely managed the logistics to make you eligible).

I understand if you are a fellow Sidwell alum, it engenders good will to the applicant, but as a poor person growing up it feels gauche to me. But maybe that’s how the world works, looking for people from your class at your IB, PE, law firm….?

people list Paly on their LinkedIn?! It’s #295 nationally - my kids go to a higher ranked school and it’s not something we would ever brag about … so odd.

[Anonymous]

I find it pathetic, like you are just telling me that you peaked in high school and I'm supposed to be impressed by that?

I work with someone who finds a way to bring up that she went to TJ for high school at least once a week. SHE IS IN HER 40S AND WORKS FOR THE GOVERMENT. It's so sad. I feel so sorry for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to TJ and it’s on my LinkedIn.

Me too. It’s been a networking boon.

It's sad and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

It’s not a brag. It’s literally just listing their high school because when you first set up LinkedIn it asks if you want to add it. No different than Facebook. Some of you are so insecure and status conscious.. yikes.

[Anonymous]

Choate, sure, for the networking. Thomas Jefferson? Nope.

[Anonymous]

It irks me too, but I actually think it harms people who do it as much as it helps them. It’s like announcing “I’m a nepotism baby!” For all the reasons OP gave. So let them proclaim they’re where they are because they started with big advantages.

[Anonymous]

I’ve seen where people include their high school and even the GPA. These folks are over 40 years old.

[Anonymous]

As you get older, you should drop the high school reference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It irks me too, but I actually think it harms people who do it as much as it helps them. It’s like announcing “I’m a nepotism baby!” For all the reasons OP gave. So let them proclaim they’re where they are because they started with big advantages.

Ignoramus

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is truly fascinating to read the random crap insecure strivers are triggered by. You put your high school on LinkedIn so you can connect with your high school network. Private alums value this network because they truly enjoyed their experience. OP is probably one of those crazy public moms who spams the private school sub-forum. Now she's worried sick that the elite private school her kids don't attend will hold them back forever as private peers are able to confer their status on online resumes forever. If her kids put their middling public high school on their LinkedIn it will tease out they're unwashed low born and/or the parents were too cheap to pay for private. For shame! Get a grip, OP. It's not gauche or tacky... it is perfectly normal.

I’m sorry if someone gets a leg up on a job because their parents paid for private school, I don’t see how you can’t see that is classism in the hiring process.

News flash, this is why families spend the big bucks for private and why public parents are so unhinged about public v. private. We all know it's not "the same" and the advantages both tangible and intangible extend far beyond age 18. It's not necessarily about cut and dry connections to get a new job, it's also about new friends, potential romantic partners, parents at your kids' school, head hunters, and decision makers seeing who you really are. The full picture when someone quickly Googles you or searches your name. This makes you public school strivers who moved to Washington unhinged because so many of you are trying to hide your stock, i.e. "where you came from."

This thread reminds me of the long dcum thread about where are you from and soooooooo many strivers were trying to conceal their flyover country roots by claiming they're [now] from Washington because they've been in DC for X amount of years. Or if they were from a podunk town, they'd claim the city they went to college in or major city they began their career in (e.g. Chicago, New York City) and other tactics like that to duck where they were REALLY from.

Sweetheart, the only insecure person in the room is the one who calls the rest of the country "flyover country". Proud to be from the midwest where people are not judgmental f&ckheads like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to TJ and it’s on my LinkedIn.

LOL!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, it’s how the world works.