<p>OP, a little odd. In the 1st post, you say that you live in Chi’s North Shore and that it’s ‘…one of the wealthiest…’. Then later you mention the need for FA. A bit contradictory.</p>
<p>The kids don’t seem to care about geographical area or economic status other kids come from. Although, surely there is a very small group at any school interested if you’re in the ‘correct’ zip codes, but those kids tend to hang out with each other. The midwest is hardly…different, when you consider that kids come from all over the world.
Now if you come from Alaska, especially Wasilla, you might get a different look. :-;</p>
<p>Well, we live in a more middle class area. I can afford private day school but boarding school is different since it costs more than double what I’m paying right now.</p>
<p>Chicago’s nod really “midwestern” in the sense that I think you’re thinking. There are more than a few people from chicago here- no one will bat an eyelash. It’s people who are from Idaho or Indiana that potentially run into stereotyping. And if you’re from the South, well…prepare to be defensive.</p>
<p>I’ll second some other people on this board in saying that you definitely shouldn’t try to hint [or outright say] that you’re from a wealthy neighborhood- the majority of students are anyway, and you’d really just sound like an insufferable snob, not to mention the fact that there would likely be several people whose parents make far more than yours.</p>
<p>That’s everywhere, Izzy. Apparently it’s okay to hold gross stereotypes of Southerners. It’s one of the few groups that remain PC to make fun of.</p>
<p>Thanks true, neato, but most Southerners don’t need the PC police and other speech code harpies to protect them from crude remarks. They usually just laugh at the redneck jokes and asides if they are funny. If not, they whip the ass of the jokester. No problem.</p>
<p>I’m currently a student at Exeter and I’m from downtown Chicago. Nobody really thinks anything different of you if you’re from Chicago (nobody really knows unless you tell them either).</p>
<p>Just make sure you give Chicago a good rep to all the East Coast kids.</p>
<p>Most of these schools are so diverse (economically, religiously, multinationally, and ethnically) that it will make no difference. The midwest is not another country (despite the great Deliverance comments). Years ago, yes. Today? no way. My biggest adjustment was going to the midwest after grad school (having gone to a NE school starting with a St.) and having midwesterners assume that either it was a Catholic parochial school or that it must be some type of reform school for wayward boys. You will be fine.</p>
<p>“It’s people who are from Idaho or Indiana that potentially run into stereotyping.”</p>
<p>Haha, I’ve run into that quite a bit. Everyone thinks I’m a farmer and no one from my state is educated… although that’s not that far from the truth! It’s more of a joke, though, that I have even started myself.</p>
<p>Some people I know really HATE Southerners, Mid-westerners, and Mormons. The best part is that these people who find it okay to make fun of the above mentioned groups will start to freak out if someone makes the slightest fun of Muslims. During Social Studies class we were talking about the “Draw Muhamand Day” and the kid in my class who CONSTANTLY rips on Southerners, Mid-westerners, and Mormons thinks that the “Draw Muhammad Day” is “totally offensive and just intolerant.” And this kid labels himself as “progressive” and “tolerant”. That’s not progressivism, or tolerance. That’s a serious perversion of both those things. I hope the kids at boarding school are less hypocritical than this kid.</p>