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[quote=Anonymous]I am one of the skewed (or if I read these comments from a West Coast perspective, "screwed"). I also hire people. In this town and for almost every job here, having connections is a competitive advantage. Shorthand for connections on a resume in DC is an affiliation with an institution. Maybe it is a DC peculiarity, but a young person (under 30), who lists a top DC high school on his/her resume will not be penalized by most employers. In fact, it will be perceived as a positive. Outside DC, it may not be a good strategy. I have seen this play out for over 25 years.[/quote]

That goes a long ways toward explaining why most DC prep family kids return to the area after college. Any young adult with a strong college academic record, some internships or other accomplishments who has the moxie to further rely on a prep school reference is a desperate reach to even get to an interview because the guy would look like a cad after a resume read. I know it would be received with some giggles and trashed outside a 50 mile radius. Also consider that in or around every major city there are the local special elite private schools. Horace Mann among dozens of others in NY, Harvard Westlake or Loyola in LA among others, University High in San Francisco among others, BC Prep among others in Boston, etc.. I little humility dispensation here...STA does not stand out versus those, and that isn't a trash comment on STA. Maybe STA grads flock back here because this bubble mentality mets them unemployable elsewhere unless they learned to drop this overt buy my elitism act in 4 years of college. There are decent paying law or lobby careers here for those who can handle 35 years of mind numbing boredom.[/quote]

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