If you can afford parochial/ private, why do you stay in MCPS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:no one - and certainly no one worth working for - cares about where you went to college

public school kids are even if not further ahead than their private counterparts from a career standpoint, and that's without the legacy and nepotistic hookups

Is that why the top tech employers only recruit from a handful of schools? Do you think Goldman Sachs would take a graduate of Longwood as an entry level employee on any kind of track that had a shot of advancement? Are consulting companies hiring from Coppin State?

Tech companies care about your skills not where you went to college
Goldman Sachs 1) like i said worth working for 2) hardly anyone from privates in the DMV is going on to work there
Coppin State - and there's the arrogant elitism!

there is zero career difference for those who went to private vs public

PP said college, and no, tech companies do not recruit on campus outside of a limited number of schools

There are plenty of tech companies outside of the FANGs and they most definitely hire from all over

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no one - and certainly no one worth working for - cares about where you went to college

public school kids are even if not further ahead than their private counterparts from a career standpoint, and that's without the legacy and nepotistic hookups

Is that why the top tech employers only recruit from a handful of schools? Do you think Goldman Sachs would take a graduate of Longwood as an entry level employee on any kind of track that had a shot of advancement? Are consulting companies hiring from Coppin State?

Tech companies care about your skills not where you went to college
Goldman Sachs 1) like i said worth working for 2) hardly anyone from privates in the DMV is going on to work there
Coppin State - and there's the arrogant elitism!

there is zero career difference for those who went to private vs public

PP said college, and no, tech companies do not recruit on campus outside of a limited number of schools

Nobody should be waiting for companies to recruit on campus. There are way too many resources available online for networking and applying to diffeeent companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no one - and certainly no one worth working for - cares about where you went to college

public school kids are even if not further ahead than their private counterparts from a career standpoint, and that's without the legacy and nepotistic hookups

Is that why the top tech employers only recruit from a handful of schools? Do you think Goldman Sachs would take a graduate of Longwood as an entry level employee on any kind of track that had a shot of advancement? Are consulting companies hiring from Coppin State?

Tech companies care about your skills not where you went to college
Goldman Sachs 1) like i said worth working for 2) hardly anyone from privates in the DMV is going on to work there
Coppin State - and there's the arrogant elitism!

there is zero career difference for those who went to private vs public

100%!!! It’s all about your work ethic and the major you choose.

unless one wants to be an engineer or doctor, I would even go so far as to say major is irrelevant

[Anonymous]

if you stay local, then local schools are well respected. for example, GW is well respected in this DMV area, whereas if you go outside this area, maybe not so much. so depends where you want to work.

also, networking can be more important than school ranking. for example, Howard and other hbcu's have a strong alumni network

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no one - and certainly no one worth working for - cares about where you went to college

public school kids are even if not further ahead than their private counterparts from a career standpoint, and that's without the legacy and nepotistic hookups

Is that why the top tech employers only recruit from a handful of schools? Do you think Goldman Sachs would take a graduate of Longwood as an entry level employee on any kind of track that had a shot of advancement? Are consulting companies hiring from Coppin State?

Tech companies care about your skills not where you went to college
Goldman Sachs 1) like i said worth working for 2) hardly anyone from privates in the DMV is going on to work there
Coppin State - and there's the arrogant elitism!

there is zero career difference for those who went to private vs public

100%!!! It’s all about your work ethic and the major you choose.

ITA! FWIW, I may be a little too young for this thread but I have a parent who is a World Bank employee (think director/VP level) and could've easily afforded to go private if necessary. Instead, I attended elementary & middle in East County ("yikes" for some people on this thread) and moved to the west side for HS (think B-CC/WJ), choosing that over some nice options I got into after taking the private school test (think Georgetown Day, etc). Ended up earning a full, four-year merit scholarship to a solid Big Ten school with a great business program where I've really thrived academically & socially to this point. So far, I've interned in investment banking at a firm similar to Goldman and I'm moving to private investing next summer (chose this over a tech company that I advanced to final-round interviews with because I can revisit that company for full-time and the former firm was in an area of the country that I'm very fond of). A big reason why I turned down the private school was that I personally knew that I wanted to be in an environment that was as close to the real-world diversity-wise as possible and to know that I've learned a lot about/lived a full life, not to mention that quite a few people from privates ended up in my college class doing the same exact thing I'm doing right now. Also, many of my friends who went to private schools can be very disrespectful to professors, lack independence learning wise and overall, have very fixed views (seeing certain types of people or practices as "lower" instead of just cultural), only hang out in concentrated bubbles, etc. I'm sure we've all seen the recent story with the Wharton undergrads who took that survey re: income inequality. Yes, we push kids hard in this area, but sometimes we overextend them/overplan their futures (out of love, of course, but it can still be pretty damaging). If I'm a parent one day, I'd for sure follow the same formula. Hope this enriches/drives this rich conversation further.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the Whitman cluster with ES kids. We are generally happy with our teachers and love our school community, but classes for my kindergartner and 4th grader have 25+ kids. The administrators are also extremely frustrating communicators and under qualified. My oldest needed some additional assistance learning to read, which we accomplished through after school tutoring. I am not sure we are quite ready to switch to private school quite yet, but my spouse is.

If you can afford parochial or private school, why do you keep your kids in MCPS?

Because it is truly about being an involved parent, providing a stable home life, and encouraging your child. The school really doesn’t matter much. I know it may be hard for some of you to believe, but I attended PG schools as did all of my friends and we are all thriving professionals. The common denominator is that all of us came from stable, supportive families.

Sure, but I prefer my child be surrounded by other children from stable and supportive families. See how that works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no one - and certainly no one worth working for - cares about where you went to college

public school kids are even if not further ahead than their private counterparts from a career standpoint, and that's without the legacy and nepotistic hookups

Is that why the top tech employers only recruit from a handful of schools? Do you think Goldman Sachs would take a graduate of Longwood as an entry level employee on any kind of track that had a shot of advancement? Are consulting companies hiring from Coppin State?

Tech companies care about your skills not where you went to college
Goldman Sachs 1) like i said worth working for 2) hardly anyone from privates in the DMV is going on to work there
Coppin State - and there's the arrogant elitism!

there is zero career difference for those who went to private vs public

100%!!! It’s all about your work ethic and the major you choose.

ITA! FWIW, I may be a little too young for this thread but I have a parent who is a World Bank employee (think director/VP level) and could've easily afforded to go private if necessary. Instead, I attended elementary & middle in East County ("yikes" for some people on this thread) and moved to the west side for HS (think B-CC/WJ), choosing that over some nice options I got into after taking the private school test (think Georgetown Day, etc). Ended up earning a full, four-year merit scholarship to a solid Big Ten school with a great business program where I've really thrived academically & socially to this point. So far, I've interned in investment banking at a firm similar to Goldman and I'm moving to private investing next summer (chose this over a tech company that I advanced to final-round interviews with because I can revisit that company for full-time and the former firm was in an area of the country that I'm very fond of). A big reason why I turned down the private school was that I personally knew that I wanted to be in an environment that was as close to the real-world diversity-wise as possible and to know that I've learned a lot about/lived a full life, not to mention that quite a few people from privates ended up in my college class doing the same exact thing I'm doing right now. Also, many of my friends who went to private schools can be very disrespectful to professors, lack independence learning wise and overall, have very fixed views (seeing certain types of people or practices as "lower" instead of just cultural), only hang out in concentrated bubbles, etc. I'm sure we've all seen the recent story with the Wharton undergrads who took that survey re: income inequality. Yes, we push kids hard in this area, but sometimes we overextend them/overplan their futures (out of love, of course, but it can still be pretty damaging). If I'm a parent one day, I'd for sure follow the same formula. Hope this enriches/drives this rich conversation further.

Adding onto this, the tech company I interviewed with has multiple alumni from my school who I networked with. It really just depends on the team/function that you want, but many industries (especially tech) are willing to recruit from everywhere. Even if they recruit on your campus, you still have to put in the necessary legwork and speaking to my friends from top schools, there wasn't a huge difference between how interviewers perceived my background, etc.

[Anonymous]

I attended private school for 12 years and sometimes it was a liability rather than a help in my college application process and beyond. The only reason I would send my kids to private is if they did not thrive in public school for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I attended private school for 12 years and sometimes it was a liability rather than a help in my college application process and beyond. The only reason I would send my kids to private is if they did not thrive in public school for some reason.

How can any kid thrive in the MCPS environment now? Anyone who says they are is lying.

[Anonymous]

Magnet program.

[Anonymous]

Some of you seem out of touch. First, there’s more to highly rated schools than the Ivy League. And for all of the disparaging of public universities, schools in our region like Virginia Tech, Penn State, UVA, and yes, UMCP, especially for STEM, are focus schools for top companies. I work at a “Big 4” and we actively recruit at all of these because the students are smart, hard working and high achieving, and tend to me more well rounded than the Ivy kids. Campus hires from these schools also do better long term at our firm.

Secondly, yes, public HS in MCPS have good representation across a wide range of excellent schools - private and public. Maybe not if you’re in the Ivy-or-die club but there are many excellent universities that fall outside that group.

[Anonymous]

^be more well rounded

[Anonymous]

No one should be evaluating whether MCPS or private school is right for you based solely on college placement. That’s the wrong way to look at it.

[Anonymous]

Parochial schools and faith mismatch is a bad combination. "After adjustment for confounders, pupils attempted suicide, suicide-risk and self-harm were all more likely among pupils with low school engagement (15-18% increase in odds for each SD change in engagement). While holding Catholic religious beliefs was protective, attending a Catholic school was a risk factor for suicidal behaviours. This pattern was explained by religious 'mismatch': pupils of a different religion from their school were approximately 2-4 times more likely to attempt suicide, be a suicide-risk or self-harm."

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-11-874

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no one - and certainly no one worth working for - cares about where you went to college

public school kids are even if not further ahead than their private counterparts from a career standpoint, and that's without the legacy and nepotistic hookups

Is that why the top tech employers only recruit from a handful of schools? Do you think Goldman Sachs would take a graduate of Longwood as an entry level employee on any kind of track that had a shot of advancement? Are consulting companies hiring from Coppin State?

Tech companies care about your skills not where you went to college
Goldman Sachs 1) like i said worth working for 2) hardly anyone from privates in the DMV is going on to work there
Coppin State - and there's the arrogant elitism!

there is zero career difference for those who went to private vs public

100%!!! It’s all about your work ethic and the major you choose.

ITA! FWIW, I may be a little too young for this thread but I have a parent who is a World Bank employee (think director/VP level) and could've easily afforded to go private if necessary. Instead, I attended elementary & middle in East County ("yikes" for some people on this thread) and moved to the west side for HS (think B-CC/WJ), choosing that over some nice options I got into after taking the private school test (think Georgetown Day, etc). Ended up earning a full, four-year merit scholarship to a solid Big Ten school with a great business program where I've really thrived academically & socially to this point. So far, I've interned in investment banking at a firm similar to Goldman and I'm moving to private investing next summer (chose this over a tech company that I advanced to final-round interviews with because I can revisit that company for full-time and the former firm was in an area of the country that I'm very fond of). A big reason why I turned down the private school was that I personally knew that I wanted to be in an environment that was as close to the real-world diversity-wise as possible and to know that I've learned a lot about/lived a full life, not to mention that quite a few people from privates ended up in my college class doing the same exact thing I'm doing right now. Also, many of my friends who went to private schools can be very disrespectful to professors, lack independence learning wise and overall, have very fixed views (seeing certain types of people or practices as "lower" instead of just cultural), only hang out in concentrated bubbles, etc. I'm sure we've all seen the recent story with the Wharton undergrads who took that survey re: income inequality. Yes, we push kids hard in this area, but sometimes we overextend them/overplan their futures (out of love, of course, but it can still be pretty damaging). If I'm a parent one day, I'd for sure follow the same formula. Hope this enriches/drives this rich conversation further.

Adding onto this, the tech company I interviewed with has multiple alumni from my school who I networked with. It really just depends on the team/function that you want, but many industries (especially tech) are willing to recruit from everywhere. Even if they recruit on your campus, you still have to put in the necessary legwork and speaking to my friends from top schools, there wasn't a huge difference between how interviewers perceived my background, etc.

There is absolutely a floor below witch you have little to no chance coming out of college at most places. Does the tech company that you interviewed with higher fresh UVA Wise graduates? Elizabeth City State? USC Aiken?