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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another product of the Baltimore prep world here. It's been interesting reading the last few pages. My own experience is only anecdotal, but for what it's worth, the old money old school world with its focus on Gilman and the Cotillion and Green Spring Valley Hunt Club is a lot smaller and far less dominant than it was 25 years ago, and that in turn was smaller than in the 50s-60s. It's almost entirely gone from Roland Park, which is now your professional UMC neighborhood rather than old money. The world is still there but it carries little weight. Many of the kids left Baltimore, along with the pervasive brain drain. Roland Park has more in common with CC DC, populated by academics and doctors and public health officials. Gilman is less old money and more meritocracy. I can't see how there is pressure to keep up with the Jones unless it's self inflicted. It is very easy to live in Baltimore, in Roland Park and have kids at the privates, and not even notice the old money world.

I would argue there's more of a keeping up with the Jones mentality in Anne Arundel than Baltimore. All that waterfront real estate and wealth is much more conspicuous than anything in Baltimore.

Old Baltimore, whether old money or old working class, is pretty much gone and only survives akin to the old immigrant institutions that people turn up to periodically to celebrate their heritage. [/quote]

I have kids at Gilman and honestly, the country club crowd is maybe 30 or 40% tops. The rest of us are just working professionals, many of whom are Hopkins connected in some way. I suspect that 20 years ago that percentage may have been larger. And I have to say, the country club crowd is different from the rest of us, but they’re not unkind! Just… different.[/quote]

Gilman's tuition is nearly $30k per year.

Quit acting like you aren't privileged.  That's a higher tuition cost than many in-state universities per year. It is almost 3x the friggin' in-state tuition cost of University of Maryland.

As usual, Baltimore is nice if you live in the extreme wealth bubble.  The bubblers are completely obtuse to the extreme privilege  they have compared to the rest of the city.  Baltimore has soooooooooooo, sooooo many problems because of segregation and wealth disparities, yet as this thread shows, apparently Baltimore is only worth living in IF you keep helping to promulgate the segregation and wealth disparities. Pure hypocrisy.[/quote]

You have know idea how much PP is paying for Gilman.   We pay 23000 for our kid,  there are kids in his class who’s parents literally pay nothing.  List price of school, like college has nothing to do with how much people actually pay.   My brother in law went to a big four Baltimore school his parents paid about 1/6 of full rate.  I don’t know why people don’t get this when mentioning private school rates.[/quote]

I am the PP being referred to, and yes I get financial aid and pay considerably less than 30K. Not sure what that has to do with anything, though. [/quote]

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