Schools on the rise.

Crimson14
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:04:32 +0000

I have been in the Boarding school realm for over 18 years - Hotchkiss has ALWAYS been top tier. Equal to Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, Milton, Groton, Middlesex, and St. Pauls. They are all the top schools in America and have been for years. Concord used to be very well regarded as well - the current president of Harvard is a concord alum.

Perhaps Hotchkiss did not get as much fanboy attention on sites like CC and among teens new to the process but for people in the know Hotchkiss has always been top tier. If you said that to my current boss at Citibank you would be laughed out of the room. He is a Hotchkiss alum and head of the investment division here. Hotchkiss’ control of Wall Street is amazing. You can’t get away from Hotchkiss on Wall Street if you tried. It is capitalist America. I bet you use Hotchkiss Alums products in your every day life. For instance Revlon the cosmetic company was owned by a prominent Hotchkiss family.

I think the explosion of Hotchkiss on internet forums like CC are due to the following reasons:

They just had the best sports season out of any prep school in history wining four new England titles. I think its safe to say that Hotchkiss is the most athletically able prep school in New England.

Hotchkiss just had the President of Mongolia and a few Ambassadors come in to give talks and the Presidents son will probably be enrolling next year.

Mr.Malcolm McKenzie has started the Hotchkiss plan and brought it the world top education experts (men that advise joe klein !) to develop Hotchkiss 5 year plan. The billionaires have also convened on Hotchkiss in a plan to make it the top of the pack. So that has generated a lot of press.

They’re debate team which has been essentially number one for the past 80 years is also getting more press.

Hotchkiss alums like Bill Ford (Chairman of Ford) are appearing on TV a lot more often because of the state of the economy.

Hotchkiss Billionaires are taking unprecedented steps, for instance the trip to Antarctica has generated significant press as its an event unique to Hotchkiss. And it also highlighted the fact that Hotchkiss has produced more billionaires than any other school in the world.

Hotchkiss’ Wikipedia page is in the process off being updated and people are actually taking a close look at the alumni page and are realizing just how powerful the schools’ alums are. (I.E they are the dominant force on wall street) now that the recession is pulling down some famous investment firms owned at least in part by Hotchkiss families like the Lehman Brothers fiasco people are starting to realize the power that the Hotchkiss alums have).

A very minor reason for press may be that this year a Hotchkiss student scored a perfect 36 on her ACT exam. She was one out of 52 in the nation to do so.

So yes there are numerous events that explain the extra press its been receiving but it has always been a top school since the day it was founded by Mrs. Hotchkiss and bolstered by the President of Yale. So as intended, Hotchkiss has always been a top school as President Dwight of Yale wished it to be.