Should I put my high school on my resume?

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yes put your high school even if you went to Boston Latin.

Why wasting valuable resume space?

I'd say it depends where you go to college. If you go to an ivy or other elite school then put it bc it shows you lived up to the opportunity of an elite prep school. If you go to a school outside maybe the top 30 I'd say don't put it bc it indicates that you didn't live up to expectations.

no one cares where you went to high school and what you did in high school.

Another caveat: if your high school has a large alumni base/is well known, include it, as it can help you in recruiting/networking

everyone commenting has no clue what they’re talking about. went to a similar prep school and it 100% helped w recruiting. tons of people in finance went to New England prep schools or send their kids to them and I would say it came up as a conversation point in at least 50% of my interviews. it takes up one line, definitely worth keeping it on there

If I see Deerfield on a resume, I assume the candidate comes from a very rich family, has tons of family connections in corporate boardrooms, and is polished and knows how to act around other rich people. These are all HUGE advantages for banking, especially on the sell side as you get more senior. It's 100% a plus - definitely add it.

It's like if you have an home address for a well known rich area with a typical old money name. These things are noticed by the 1%ers for better or worse. Just because some middle class loser from WSO tells you its wasting valuable space doesnt mean a senior MD reading the resume will think the same thing. Life and finance is not fair - use every advantage you have!

I went to a regular high school and got a finance internship because the director reading my unimpressive resume saw that I went to the same high school as him. So yes, it can be a good thing. Having a prep school can look bad if people went to public school and are biased against prep school kids.

The way you wrote “Deerfield” and not specifically “Deerfield Academy” makes it seem like you expect us Monkeys to know what Deerfield is. In many ways you have answered the question for yourself.

Add it. I'm about to enter HBS / GSB in the fall and having St. Pauls / Andover / Groton / Exeter on my resume was a talking point in all of my interviews. For banking, a senior MD in my group had gone to the same school and made sure I got a return. When interviewing for PE, at the MF I'm at a principal in the firm had the same prep school and university made sure that I would be given an interview. Things that happened in high school were relevant for B-school, and have been a conversation topic even for people who did not go to the same school but went to a similar school (there is some affinity). Even people who did not go to prep school but went to certain target schools will know plenty of people who went to these boarding schools. The only downside is if someone knows and has a bias against those schools (in my experience people who didn't get in. Those who didn't apply / don't know much tend not to care) but these people are outweighed by those who favorably view prep schools

Hey, can you say if you added it or not, my friend has the same dilemma? I think for everyone the process of applying to colleges was quite stressful because in a way your life depends on it and you don't want to screw it out. Like everybody, I wanted to prepare an impressive package of documents and write an outstanding essay to be sure that I will be accepted.