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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Connections are indeed important in life but I don't think middle and high school connections are necessarily the important ones.  College maybe.  Graduate school more likely.  Professional connections definitely.[/quote]

I agree that middle and high school connections are not necessarily the important ones.  In fact, I would say that they almost never are.  I also agree that the value of connections increases as you work your way up the ladder - college, grad school, professional connections.

But STA, needless to say, is not your typical middle/high school for many reasons.  One is the connections you do develop at an early age.  For example, my nephew was able to get a summer job at a prominent news magazine which helped his college application (he wanted to be a journalism major) and propelled him to journalism school.  He is now a cub reporter for a small newspaper and quite happy.   The summer job was created for him exclusively by an STA parent who was an editor at the news organization.  My step-son had mediocre grades in business school, graduated last May at the height of the financial crisis, and landed a job at a investment  firm only because his STA friend's parent owned the firm.  I'm not saying connections are the only thing.  But they do count, and for some, create opportunities that would not otherwise be available.[/quote]

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