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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you put a DC prep school on a resume for a job in NYC or on the West Coast, you'd look like a rank bottom fool. If you have a college degree or graduate degrees, those are the data points. There are also a lot of billionaire college dropouts in the technology sector who have hired a lot of plain IQ people who also don't carry a lot of academic prestige value. The real world is a lot more egalitarian outside of middle or high middle income law firm and commercial real estate local jobs. I see the point made that the old boy network from places like STA can travel in town here. Outside of DC it isn't a real smart brag. [/quote]

+ 1.  I lived on the West Coast, and attended one of the most well-known and highly regarded prep schools out there.  I do not know a single one of my high school classmates who includes the name of our school on their resume.[/quote]

Posting again.  Previous poster perhaps you are correct that it is acceptable to include a resume line about a DC private school area school for a DC area job.

That said, neither I nor any of my classmates devote a line about our well-regarded west coast school on a resume when applying for west coast positions.  Perhaps a better way to handle this might be to include a line under awards or achievements where one might post an academic distinction achieved at such school, for example, that they were a member of the A society at B school (top students in each class).  [/quote]

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