Anonymous wrote:Landon is best known nationally for the homicide by George Huegel V. I know it happened after he graduated but it’s the first thing someone not from DC thinks about when the hear Landon.

Agree with PPs who say this is a stupid thread. Who cares what the national reputation of a school is? Colleges know which schools send prepared kids.

No one not from DC remembers what high school a kid who committed a crime in college went to.

Landon is best known nationally for the homicide by George Huegel V. I know it happened after he graduated but it’s the first thing someone not from DC thinks about when the hear Landon.

Agree with PPs who say this is a stupid thread. Who cares what the national reputation of a school is? Colleges know which schools send prepared kids.

How does Landon rank?

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC and have never heard of Dematha so probably not that one

Same.

Anonymous wrote:Gilman

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the 80s and had never heard of any private school anywhere. Teen Magazine did a spread on Gilman sometime in the mid 80s and it had all these preppy, clean-cut boys in the pictures. Something about it stuck with me as a quintessential example of everything I was not and did not know. I ended up, miraculously, at an Ivy and met kids from all the big private schools, although was friends with none of them because they did not hang out with a kid like me. That was when I heard of Sidwell and St.Albans. I can’t really remember other DC schools, can remember kids from most of the East Coast boarding schools and the NY and CA privates.

I ended up meeting and falling in love with a guy (who has been my husband now for 20 years) at college who went to a fancy NY suburban public school but who came from an old Baltimore family. His cousins all went to Gilman. To this day, I think about that Teen Magazine article when I am around the men in his family. I have known them for decades, but a little part of me is still that girl from nowhere who is impressed by the ease with which they navigate the world.

Anonymous wrote:The prep schools in Baltimore all well known in Baltimore...you'll get a blank stare in Darien CT Avon CT or heck even Sudbury/Wellesley/Northampton (?!?!?) MA... I went to St. Lawrence for college and I knew the Andovers...the Baltimore crowd lives in planet Baltimore. McDonough or Gilman aint Hotchkiss.

To be fair, these schools mostly have local / class reputations. For example, I am double Ivy and have no idea what a Hotckiss is. Whatever. I'm sure it was great.

This is kind of a dumb thread, come to think of it.

Mentioned earlier, but for normie Americans, Sidwell b/c President kids and DeMatha for basketball. Now Prep for Scotus / Kavanaugh probably.

St. Albans maybe for some WASPs but I think they are like hispters... they must exist but everyone pretends they aren't one.

Nobody nationally cares about Baltimore except that The Wire was awesome.

I moved here after law school, and I'd never heard of any of them until I had a child old enough to start school . Then I started paying attention to schools and realized I probably should have started to pay attention to schools sooner, lol.

Anonymous wrote:I had never heard of the DC schools except for Sidwell.

Same.

The prep schools in Baltimore all well known in Baltimore...you'll get a blank stare in Darien CT Avon CT or heck even Sudbury/Wellesley/Northampton (?!?!?) MA... I went to St. Lawrence for college and I knew the Andovers...the Baltimore crowd lives in planet Baltimore. McDonough or Gilman aint Hotchkiss.

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Anonymous wrote:To be honest, not a ton of notable alumni from Gilman in its 120+ year history. A few politicians, but most are athletes.

A few governors, senators, and Congressman, some famous authors, composers, Uber successful finance guys and doctors. Not sure what you consider more noteworthy accomplishments for a high school.

Have you seen the STA and Georgetown Prep notable alumni lists? They are significantly longer and more illustrious.

Gilman

Anonymous wrote:To be honest, not a ton of notable alumni from Gilman in its 120+ year history. A few politicians, but most are athletes.

A few governors, senators, and Congressman, some famous authors, composers, Uber successful finance guys and doctors. Not sure what you consider more noteworthy accomplishments for a high school.

To be honest, not a ton of notable alumni from Gilman in its 120+ year history. A few politicians, but most are athletes.

I had never heard of Gilman until we played them in lax, and we live in DC.