<p>For any new comers to this thread: run. Run away fast. These threads never end well.</p>
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<p>tenchar</p>
<p>That’s right, London, and I’ve got an axe to grind now!</p>
<p>Yes, Groton is small, but I can’t understand the “niche” point. It was one of the early “Episcopalian church” schools along with SPS, Kent, SGS, EHS, St. Mark’s, Trinity-Pawling, and, later on, SAS. Not colonial-era, like Exeter, Andover or Deerfield, but good company nevertheless, dating from 1884.</p>
<p>Given the number of students/alumni, its impact has been rather outsized, especially looking at 20th century political history, and I’d argue that’s because the prestige factor helped attract powerful families. FDR, Harriman, Acheson, Bundy (both brothers), TR, Jr., Joseph Grew, Francis Biddle. We know about the patrician class of the 20th century thanks to the novels of Louis Auchincloss. Investment banking families like the Blair family. Industrial dynasty scions like Henry Francis duPont, of Winterthur. Billionaire philanthropist families today such as that of Robert Bass. The list of distinguished alumni is so extensive and broad it includes Fred Gwynne, of all people. Check it out, below. </p>
<p>The school screams prestige. P8, for sure.</p>
<p>[Category:Groton</a> School alumni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Groton_School_alumni]Category:Groton”>Category:Groton School alumni - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Charger, Groton needs no defending whatsoever. Those in the know, know.</p>
<p>^^^Thus, the stupidity of this thread and all others like it.</p>
<p>^^^ agreed, listing obscures as much, nay more, than it reveals. and will always pop up on this forum, people being what they are, including lapdogs to what sellers are selling . . . nevertheless, kudos to the other CC threads that allow discerning buyers to move beyond the marketing hype of prestige lists and give them useful info to objectively evaluate fit for the P8 (as well as the other schools, if our advice is heeded)</p>
<p>for myself, facts are facts, the backbone of history, and some narratives or assertions so woefully ignore the facts that people of conscience need to stand up. "First they came for Groton, and I said nothing . . . Next, they came for Choate . . . "</p>
<p>RIP, thread (unless you’re still cranky, CM)</p>
<p>Ha I’m leaving now. Bye!!</p>