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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bought a superior education, but more importantly, I bought a peer group and social currency.

Is that what you really wanted to know OP?

College admit is not the highest concern.

There is SO MUCH more to it than a top tier college admit. 
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You’re delusional. 5 years (or even less) out of college and barely anybody cares what college you went to.  And certainly nobody gives a damn what high school you went to!

My spouse works with elite Ivy League grads and nobody ever, ever talks about what freakin high school they went to. It’s not on their professional bios, not on their LinkedIn profiles, not in their conversations. Nothing. [/quote]

False. You must be looking at LinkedIn profiles from a bunch of public school graduates (who most likely do NOT put their high schools on their LinkedIn profiles).

Tip: 1. Go to LinkedIn; 2. Type in individual (one name/search) names of elite independent high schools (eg, Noble and Greenough, Horace Mann, HW, Sidwell Friends, St. John's (Houston), etc); 3. Come back and tell us what you find. 😝 [/quote]

Anyone including their HS on their LinkedIn profile better be either still in HS or at most a Freshman in college.  🙄[/quote]

For graduates of elite high school it would be normal.  They have strong alumni networks and some view it as more impressive than attending an elite college.  You are clearly not in the know. [/quote]

No you clearly are not in the know.  If I want to seek out people from my elite private HS, I’m not turning to LinkedIn when I can just turn to the alumni person at the school, or put out feelers within my own actual alumni network to make personal connections, or show up at any of the events where said alumni network will be in attendance.

Also, there are more selective ways to connect than just LinkedIn, for instance the programs and social networks specific to your actual field.

It always funny seeing people on here talk about elite HS or college networks who clearly have no idea how they actually work.[/quote]

That’s you. A lot of people wouldn’t bother going through their high school alumni office (middle man), when they can just lookup their high school’s graduates, via LinkedIn. I don’t understand why that’s so hard for some of you to grasp. [/quote]

Why stop at high school? Why not list your private middle or elementary school on LinkedIn too?

No doubt that a lot of mediocre bankers and lawyers put their private high schools on LinkedIn. But ZERO top rainmakers or managing partners do. Zero.[/quote]

My how the goalposts keep moving. I bet I could find “top rainmakers or managing partners” with one of the elite high schools listed on their LinkedIn profiles in less than 5 minutes. But then, you would just move the goalposts again…[/quote]

I just searched Deerfield Academy and the vast majority (like 90%) are either current college students, kids who graduated college in the last three years, people who work at boarding schools or provide services (teachers at other schools, work in admin, provide services to help kids get into boarding schools, etc).

Very few say 30+ people and even then, many who work fairly normal jobs…not top rainmakers or managing partners…though I did find one who is an MD at a prop trading firm.

Going in reverse and looking at the CEO of GS, top Blackstone MDs, etc., I didn’t see a single one listing their high schools (I know the CEO of Goldman went to Scarsdale HS…so not a fancy private).

Perhaps none attended fancy private high schools which is why they didn’t list them.[/quote]

Deerfield wasn’t on the list upthread. I just searched for 1 minute on Google, and found 2 Sidwell alums who are partners at major law firms. They graduated from college well over 10 years ago. [/quote]

Who the F care about the high schools one goes to! Only the striver parents who want to gain some social climbing from their kids' schools.  DCUM is full of sad losers.

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Yet here you are…posting on DCUM. 🙄

You sound envious. Obviously, the Ivy+/T20 grads care enough to list THEIR OWN elite high school on their LinkedIn profiles, long after they graduated from high school and college. Just say your broke, mediocre public school @ss can’t relate and move along. Everything isn’t for everyone. [/quote]

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