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[quote=Anonymous]I dunno, I feel like I'm pretty aware of the world.  I've lived in a number of cities, went to a SLAC where a lot of people were from prep schools, have a professional career, and now as an adult, I have met and am generally aware of people who went to Dalton, Choate, Andover, Exeter, University of Chicago Lab, Sidwell Friends etc. and I have also met several people who attended the top magnet schools in this country, i.e. Stuyvesant, Thomas Jefferson, Lowell, etc.  However this general awareness did not happen until adulthood.  When I was a teenager, I simply was not concerned with such things--I knew of one person who went to Exeter, one who went to Choate, and one who went to Taft.  The most common reason for going to boarding school was to play ice hockey at a higher level than what was available in club sports in our area.  I went to a well regarded suburban high school in the Chicago suburbs, and I was generally aware of Chicago prep schools like Lab and Latin.  I didn't know or care much about schools in New York or NE boarding schools.

As I've gotten older and I have more college friends, colleagues, and friends whose kids who attend those schools, so I am aware of them.  But if you were to choose a random city that I have no ties to, say LA or Atlanta (both of which have excellent prep schools), I can't say I'm super familiar with the schools over there.

DH who grew up in a small, rural town has even less awareness of this shit than I do.[/quote]

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