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[quote=Anonymous]In the old traditional prep world, St. Albans and Gilman would both have been known. Because it was that world. The kind of family who lived in DC and sent their sons to STA would have gone to Gilman had they lived in Baltimore, and the graduates of both schools hung out with each other when they matriculated at college, and married the sisters and so forth. Every major American city has 1-2 private schools that fits this category. This world largely doesn't exist these days outside small circles but it is why among certain sets in every city you will find people who know the other schools by reputation even if they may have never set foot in the respective cities.

I didn't come from that world, but I graduated from an Ivy in 2002 and by the end of my first year I pretty much knew the names of all the major private schools across America through osmosis, not because I set out to know what they were. You just pick it up. I've never been to Cleveland but I know of Hathaway Brown and University. Or Blake in Minneapolis. Or Pembroke in Kansas City. Names that are all vaguely familiar to me as the good private schools of those places.

The mistake is thinking national reputation is meaningful. It's not. [/quote]

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