Which area (to include Baltimore) all boys private has the most national recognition?

[Anonymous]

Not from this area, and the only one I had heard of was Gonzaga due to a West Wing episode.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The prep schools in Baltimore all well known in Baltimore...you'll get a blank stare in Darien CT Avon CT or heck even Sudbury/Wellesley/Northampton (?!?!?) MA... I went to St. Lawrence for college and I knew the Andovers...the Baltimore crowd lives in planet Baltimore. McDonough or Gilman aint Hotchkiss.

I’ve never heard of those places, so why would blank stares from there matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gilman

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the 80s and had never heard of any private school anywhere. Teen Magazine did a spread on Gilman sometime in the mid 80s and it had all these preppy, clean-cut boys in the pictures. Something about it stuck with me as a quintessential example of everything I was not and did not know. I ended up, miraculously, at an Ivy and met kids from all the big private schools, although was friends with none of them because they did not hang out with a kid like me. That was when I heard of Sidwell and St.Albans. I can’t really remember other DC schools, can remember kids from most of the East Coast boarding schools and the NY and CA privates.

I ended up meeting and falling in love with a guy (who has been my husband now for 20 years) at college who went to a fancy NY suburban public school but who came from an old Baltimore family. His cousins all went to Gilman. To this day, I think about that Teen Magazine article when I am around the men in his family. I have known them for decades, but a little part of me is still that girl from nowhere who is impressed by the ease with which they navigate the world.

Good post. Can you describe this ease a little more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not from this area, and the only one I had heard of was Gonzaga due to a West Wing episode.

+1. The ones you hear of are from random sources like Gongaza from WW or Gilman from Teen magazine. Sorry DC privates, you’re not really well known. Even STA, even though there’s one deluded parent or alum who keeps trying to make it sound internationally famous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not from this area, and the only one I had heard of was Gonzaga due to a West Wing episode.

+1. The ones you hear of are from random sources like Gongaza from WW or Gilman from Teen magazine. Sorry DC privates, you’re not really well known. Even STA, even though there’s one deluded parent or alum who keeps trying to make it sound internationally famous.

Are you the OP? No one cares about this trust me. Kids from many of these schools are doing exceptionally well in life and they could care less about this. I suggest you do the same.

[Anonymous]

When I moved from NYC, the only two schools that my Ivy educated friends mentioned to look at for my son was Sidwell Friends and Georgetown Prep.

[Anonymous]

I have lived all over the country and Sidwell, STA and Dematha are the only schools I had ever heard of before I moved here.

[Anonymous]

Grew up in the private school world of NYC and went to camp/summered with preps from all over then I went to a preppy NESCAC school. I had heard of Gilman and Sidwell prior to moving to DC after college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gilman

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the 80s and had never heard of any private school anywhere. Teen Magazine did a spread on Gilman sometime in the mid 80s and it had all these preppy, clean-cut boys in the pictures. Something about it stuck with me as a quintessential example of everything I was not and did not know. I ended up, miraculously, at an Ivy and met kids from all the big private schools, although was friends with none of them because they did not hang out with a kid like me. That was when I heard of Sidwell and St.Albans. I can’t really remember other DC schools, can remember kids from most of the East Coast boarding schools and the NY and CA privates.

I ended up meeting and falling in love with a guy (who has been my husband now for 20 years) at college who went to a fancy NY suburban public school but who came from an old Baltimore family. His cousins all went to Gilman. To this day, I think about that Teen Magazine article when I am around the men in his family. I have known them for decades, but a little part of me is still that girl from nowhere who is impressed by the ease with which they navigate the world.

Good post. Can you describe this ease a little more?

+1

I grew up middle class, was taught general etiquette and manners (ie which fork to use), but once I started working in DC with some people who went to prep schools, sent their kids to schools or both it became evident how much of its own world it is and how little I knew about it or how to navigate it. Would love to hear more

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think St. Albans is the only one with any sort of "national recognition".

Agree!

[Anonymous]

STA and Gilman

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Come on. No one outside of the DMV connects Landon with that crime. No one outside of here thinks of either.
I grew up outside of this area (Philly) and knew of Georgetown Prep but thought it was connected to Georgetown.
My son is now at STA. I had never heard of it prior to moving here.

If any school is associated with that crime, it is UVA, as that is where Hughley attended when the crime was committed.

I’m sorry that, as an obvious Landon parent, you wish the strain of that went to uva. Huguely and love met while he was at Landon, and he murdered her shortly after leaving Landon. He’d barely been at uva. Around the same time, the Duke lacrosse scandal happened, with roots to Landon. The sat cheating scandal in that same time frame as well, along with the arguably racist decisions by Landon about who and who not to expel. You can’t foist that on a school huguely spent five minutes at.

None of that is correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yeardley_Love

[Anonymous]

Stop trying to make fetch happen Gretchen...

This whole thread reeks of TTH. especially the sad women rhapsodizing about the teen magazine article. It's just embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on. No one outside of the DMV connects Landon with that crime. No one outside of here thinks of either.
I grew up outside of this area (Philly) and knew of Georgetown Prep but thought it was connected to Georgetown.
My son is now at STA. I had never heard of it prior to moving here.

If any school is associated with that crime, it is UVA, as that is where Hughley attended when the crime was committed.

I’m sorry that, as an obvious Landon parent, you wish the strain of that went to uva. Huguely and love met while he was at Landon, and he murdered her shortly after leaving Landon. He’d barely been at uva. Around the same time, the Duke lacrosse scandal happened, with roots to Landon. The sat cheating scandal in that same time frame as well, along with the arguably racist decisions by Landon about who and who not to expel. You can’t foist that on a school huguely spent five minutes at.

Didn't the Duke lacrosse scandal turn out to be utterly fabricated by Rolling Stones? I wouldn't use it as an example.

[Anonymous]

What private schools anywhere have national recognition? I bet if you asked 100 random people across the country if they had heard of Phillips Exeter, Choate, Hotchkiss, Dalton, or Horace Mann, 99 of them wouldn't have heard of any of them.
Only rich people who travel in certain circles know about these schools.