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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To Professors:

Can you tell which students attended private prep high schools versus those with a public high school background ?

I am familiar with private day & boarding schools throughout the nation and would be shocked if graduates lacked the skills and maturity noted above by several posters.[/quote]

That is not something a professor would know or ask (or care about). [/quote]

+1
why do you think professors know your kid's HS?[/quote]

My kid’s professors know his high school because some of them have sent their kids there. [/quote]

Hit sent too soon. Plenty of kids wear stuff with their HS on it. [/quote]

I doubt it... Who knows all these random high schools anyway? Many professors at top schools are new immigrants and can't relate to any of that.[/quote]

So you don't know of any private high schools in the ares you live? Doubt it. [/quote]

Take the DMV alone.  I know a small number of schools, not all, but I certainly don't know how they relate to each other or which ones are 'better' than which other ones (I'm also of the firm belief that the best school for any given student should be independent of prestige indices).  I'm pretty sure that anything starting with "St." is religious, anything whose name talks about bucolic landscapes is private, and anything involving the word "prep" is expensive.  This affects my teaching and my assessment of my students by a factor of exactly nothing.  All I want to do is help them learn and succeed, so I figure out where their skills are and then show them how to work so that they will improve.[/quote]

If you live in say, Alexandria, you will see the same car stickers/apparel over and over again in your daily life. If a professor who lives there has no idea about any of the schools in their own area, they must be ostriches. [/quote]

Sure, I know _of_ them (more the ones near where I live, as you point out), but I rarely know anything substantive about them or how people game them against each other.  They're mostly just names to me.[/quote]

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