Elite high school worth mentioning?
Hi all, I’m in a bit of a conundrum. I am afraid that this is a topic I may get some unfavorable comments on, but pls bear with me. When I was 13, i enrolled in one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the world (Eton / Andover / Rosey etc). I was quite home sick and didn’t get along with my head-master. As a result, I had dropped Out of school After a year, and enrolled at another top Boarding school in Asia / Middle East - where I had more success in terms of social assimilation. My first school though was way more prestigious than the one I had subsequently ended up attending. Now I’m graduating from uni (a non-target according to WSO but with supportive alumni network) I wonder if I can mention to people that I had once attended the school which I eventually left? As I mentioned, it is way more prestigious than my eventual Alma Mater and is something that may force people to see me in a different light. What are your thoughts? If I don’t, should I at least mention it on my LinkedIn? I know I may come across as a troll but I’m dead serious and have no ill intentions to stoke a class-war.
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My high school was better than yours. I graduated last in class, and am running a few billion in assets.
Not sure here but going from an ‘elite’ high school to a non-target kind of looks like you’re underperforming. On the other hand, could help with alumni of that high school.
I would totally keep it in my resume and LinkedIn, there are a lot of people in Banking from top pep/private/boarding-schools. I gave me a leg up
I graduated from one of the most prestigious/expensive (100k ish a year) boarding schools in the world (swiss big 4) and to be honest me and my friends only cared about traveling on weekends, going out, and clubbing trips to Geneve/Paris/Barcelona.
Of course, some kids are at HYPS, LSE, and such. But many are at american non-targets (think UMIAMI,Northeastern, ASU, UF, UC's, even some LAC's), schools like Regents in London, and some even in hospitality schools. In my SA interview, the VP had gone to the same school as me and we spent probably 30 minutes talking about stupid stuff we did at our respective times.
Definitely add high schools to linkedin, but for your resume, I'd leave it off.
You're graduating university and you're still talking about when you were 13?
Haven't you interned 1-2 times by now? What is your feedback and experience from your internships? You haven't mentioned your major or desired direction.
Ok let me be clear. I went to a non target which is still a top 20 LAC in the US (Colgate, Carleton, Colby) because I wanted financial Independence from my parents who were only willing to pay if I attended certain schools. I attended these schools on a Hefty scholarship.
I'd say leave it off your resume. You could use it while networking to make a connection with the other person, but it would strike me as a bit odd to find a boarding school a candidate attended at 14 on their resume when they're graduating college.
If you didn't graduate from there, I wouldn't mention it. Having to go through the whole explanation would be even worse.
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..:is whether you graduated from there. I would not add the HS you attended for 1-2 years but didn’t finish here. you wanna add the high school you finished at - don’t see a problem there
Can I mention it on my LinkedIn?
You're right, this is going to get some unfavorable comments. No one gives a shit about where you went to high school.
Fuck off kid
lmao this is so ridiculous, literally nobody cares where you went to high school, I know people who went to HYP, and then transferred to top 20 schools and even they dont mention that they went to HYP on resume, linkedin, or anything because they didnt graduate there and it looks pathetic to put it on/talk about it like some poser
You Americans may laugh, but in my country investment banks require HS grade transcripts - sometimes as far as 5 years into your career.
With that said, what HS you went to seems to be more prevalent in UK than anywhere else, more so if you went to Eton / Harrow / etc.
Agreed but if the OP transferred out of this top high school, as he says, how would mentioning it help him at all?
If he dropped out, I don't think it'd help him at all - probably hurt him, if anything. The inevitable question would be "Why did you drop out? (from one of the best schools in the world)"
Sure, if you have some amazing story ready at hand, probably no harm...but I don't really see any upsides. Bette to just scratch it off, especially if he went to another good school afterwards.
Your greatest asset in this equation will likely be your relationships with your peers at this school and possibly working with them later in life in business. Touting that you went to this school is not going to be a clear strength as you only attended.
you shouldn’t be piggybacking off something so long ago.
Is no one mentioning how this guys is an “Assist. VP in PE - LBOs”
Cause he ain't
Makes no sense to me to mention a high school from which you dropped out. What is someone asks about not graduating?
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