Posted on 02/19/2024 6:09:04 AM PST by MtnClimber
His daughters, not so much. But they were pretty. His son ended up being roommates with the son of some rich banker from Geneva, Switzerland. The Swiss family ended up having their whole family over to their place in Zermatt for a New Years/ski vacation. All they had to do was pay for the plane tickets.
Freepers love to disparage all the rich kids prep schools and Ivy league colleges. However, IF your kid can get into one of these schools they might end up roommates with some future CEO or mover/shaker of government or industry.
The other reason WHY to go to some of these Prep schools is athletics. My second cousin’s son is a very good hockey goalie. After playing for his suburban Buffalo high school he got a chance to play for Cushing for his Senior year.
He played there one year and is now on a semi pro team.
If he continues to play well, he could end up in the NHL.
🙋 my usage of “feeder schools” not so much ...
is there a newer term in use ?🤓
Way back, before the flood ( hahahahaha), in the early-mid 1960s, when I knew about Holderness, it was still was still ALL BOYS, as it had always been. When they went co-ed, I don't know.
Yes, sadly a LOT of posters here disparage these schools as well as IVIES and the "little IVIES"! many of them are the same ones who boast about how little their weddings cost and such, and revel in just how little they spend on other things. It's reverse SNOBBERY and is just as stupid as the opposite kind.
And then there are the ones who slam major cities ( they were doing this BEFORE such places were ruined! ), poo pooing amazing museums, theatre, opera, etc.!
Yes, one never knows who one's roommate/s will be, nor who will be in one's class or team. And this is also true re the elite private day schools.
Does the above "help" when one is an adult?
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't; that's something one won't know until later in life; however, it IS all a valuable learning experience. Well, it used to be! Now? I'm not so sure.
Two of it's early pupils were two brothers whose last name was Phillips. One founded Exeter and the other founded Andover! :-)
FYI...Bette Davis graduated from Cushing and funded a graduating Senior prize, for theatre/drama! :-)
“Cushing is sadly NOT what it once was”
Yet, they still charge around $75K/year.
Somebody must think it is worth it.
I was just saying that this is no longer an absolute "IN" at top colleges; it does give the boarding schoolers a bit of an edge over the public school white male kid, though.
But it NOT what it once was; none of these schools are and most, if not all, are WOKE!
🙋👍
There was once a time, when yes, these boarding schools were absolutely "FEEDER SCHOOLS" and unless you got really horrible grades in some subject/s ( and your parent/s grandparents, etc. hadn't gone to the college/university ), the student applying was in "trouble" [perhaps weight listed at best], and then there were the ones that did NOT take you if you were Jewish...like Williams, in the late 1950s ) you were accepted.
But that began to change once the newest and dumbest subsection of WE HAVE TO HAVE *non-white, EXCEPT FOR ASIANS, students from public schools, whose classes and grades don't really meet our requirements, admissions.
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