Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Many ultra-wealthy people don't care about the brand of high school their kid attends. You'll find the most desperate brand-chasers among the upper-middle class, people who are on the periphery of elite status, but not quite there.

When you live in a $8 million mansion, it doesn't matter where your kid goes to school. They're set.

The richest family I know (worth over $100 million) was heavily sought after by every top school in DC and chose Landon because they liked the campus environment and culture.

Yes this is exactly right. My kids attend a private that is constantly looked down upon on DCUM and it has many astonishingly wealthy families. They aren’t worried about impressing any of the strivers like the people who post frenetically on this board or the college one. I think more than anything having money is of course nice because you can afford very nice things, but really it gives you freedom from constantly worrying about impressing others. You can choose the school that is right for your kids rather than impressing the neighbors.

Anonymous wrote:Boarding school

lol only if the kids can actually hack it.

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

+1 The one of the richest families I know homeschools and hires private teachers for their 2 kids. They really don't care about brands.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Many ultra-wealthy people don't care about the brand of high school their kid attends. You'll find the most desperate brand-chasers among the upper-middle class, people who are on the periphery of elite status, but not quite there.

When you live in a $8 million mansion, it doesn't matter where your kid goes to school. They're set.

The richest family I know (worth over $100 million) was heavily sought after by every top school in DC and chose Landon because they liked the campus environment and culture.

The majority of us need that brand name to help hook us into the elite. The uber rich don't care or need it.

Boarding school

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Many ultra-wealthy people don't care about the brand of high school their kid attends. You'll find the most desperate brand-chasers among the upper-middle class, people who are on the periphery of elite status, but not quite there.

When you live in a $8 million mansion, it doesn't matter where your kid goes to school. They're set.

The richest family I know (worth over $100 million) was heavily sought after by every top school in DC and chose Landon because they liked the campus environment and culture.

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Maybe the intensity isn't a good match for their kids.

Look at the kids of wealth celebs. Many of them do go to private schools, tailored for the celeb's tastes (i.e. the hippie granola celebs tend to send their kids to the "creative/artistic schools", the more straight laced send their kids to the most academically rigorous, the flashier ones to the most expensive, etc) but a huge number just send their kid to whatever public school is nearby, i.e. Malibu High School or Beverly Hills High. Same as in DC. It's about the personality of the parent and what they want for the kid, usually.

The ones with no name on the door, exclusive

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Maybe they did not get admitted. Things have changed. Being wealthy is not an automatic in.

I think that’s true and also that the parents didn’t care enough to try to work the system or whatever. There’s a level of wealth where you don’t really need the branding.

I’ve also known kids of very wealthy people to attend “meh” colleges. The parents coulda put their names on a building and made a better admit happen but I think they just didn’t care to.

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

Maybe they did not get admitted. Things have changed. Being wealthy is not an automatic in.

The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it.

NCS, Holton, St Albans, Landon, Madeira, Sidwell, Georgetown Prep, etc or boarding schools. Ocassionally they just go to whatever their zoned public school is, so usually Whitman, Churchill, McLean, BCC...

lol top secret

There are so many privates in moco/dc! Which ones have the wealthiest populations?