A lot of the people that fit the profile you are describing are lobbyists. They have connections and people skills and maybe hang around together, and you seem to have run into a clump of them. I wouldn't take it too seriously. It seems like everyone in DC went to an ivy. Not that special in DC!!!

Anonymous wrote:I've been meeting all these snooty parents who try so hard to get their kids into prestigious elementary and high schools. Several of them went to these schools but went to crappy colleges (second tier or worse). DH and I went to HYP and are trying to decide between public and private. We have friends who attended Exeter and Andover type schools but they are down to earth. We earn $1 million+ per year so we can easily afford private school but these attitudes are really turning us off.

What are these people so snobby about?

I'm confused by your post.

You went to Ivies and now make a lot of money. (Did you go to 'prestigious' elementary/high schools?)
Some of your friends went to 'prestigious' high schools and are down to earth. (Where did they go to college?)
You know some people who went to 'prestigious' elementary/high schools but second tier colleges.

What is your point??? You sound like a new money phony. It is the PERSON who matters, not the place where he or she 'prepped' - the morals and values a person espouses are more important than the school name on a person's diploma.

- someone who went to an Exeter and Andover type school and what you would likely consider a second tier college

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Anonymous wrote:When all the valedictorians from the 50 states move to one little city and then expect their children to do just as well as they did--well there is going to be trouble. Only 20 percent of those children can be in the top 20 percent at a DC area private. Leave your child in the school even if they are not making the top grades. They will still be benefitting and they will have friends etc. don't take them out because they have B on their report card

I grew up in California and every valedictorian and otherwise very intelligent student I knew in high school stayed in California, where there are abundant opportunities for intelligent, successful, and ambitious people. Not one of those people gave a though to moving here.

California is one of the few states for which that's true, together with maybe New York, Oregon and Massachusetts. That still leaves 47 states who are sending their valedictorians to DC.