Anonymous
04/16/2026 14:58
Subject: Which regional private school networks are most powerful and continue after college?
Anonymous wrote:I went to a NYC school mentioned but have never used the network as I have never worked in NYC.
Also, NYC is a big place so any network is somewhat limited and there’s not a lot of crossover between the single sex and coed schools. I went to one of the girls schools and never knew anyone at Him or Dalton, and I was pretty social.
I would think going to a private in DC or similar smaller city gives you much greater connections, in that city but not necessarily anywhere else.
Realize this is a very old thread but commenting since that is my experience as well. Perhaps this network works for some but think it is not that accurate.
Anonymous
04/15/2026 22:25
Subject: Which regional private school networks are most powerful and continue after college?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Honest question- are these networks mostly White folks?
have you seen the percent of asians at these elite private schools and boarding schools? a minority but definitely growing. Especially the boarding schools, West Coast privates and NYC more so than DC privates. Many very very rich internationals also at the boarding schools. It’s all
about money, not skin color.
No, frankly it's all about skin color. my private school kid is at an Ivy and on the periphery of the monied, boarding school crowd and it's all WASP white kids. There are many of them.
Which Ivy?
Anonymous
04/15/2026 20:38
Subject: Which regional private school networks are most powerful and continue after college?
Anonymous wrote:Posting as its own thread by popular demand
DC (GDS, Sidwell, St. A, Cathedral), NYC (Trinity, Riverdale, Horace Mann, Dalton, Collegiate, Brearley, Spence, Chapin), LA (Harvard Westlake, Brentwood, Marlborough, Crossroads), SF city (Urban, Lick, UHS), SF Bay area (Nueva, College Prep, Head Royce, Menlo, Harker, Castilleja), Chicago (Latin, Parker, North Shore, Lake Forest), Boston (Roxbury Latin, Milton, Winsor, Noble & Greenough), Philly (Germantown Friends, Haverford, Chestnut Hill, Episcopal Academy) and Boarding Schools(Andover, Philips Exeter, Lawrenceville, Deerfield, Groton, Choate, Cate, Hotchkiss).
I went to one of the listed NYC schools back in the day and it isn't really the source of connections any more than anything else. Many of my lifetime friends are from high school but frankly, college was a much more reliable source of connections that helped in adult life. And family connections generally were more important than college connections.