<p>"Most of the parents all dressed in a similar, tweedy way. I was more surprised by how some of the kids dressed inappropriately. Way too casual."</p>
<p>I've hear this comment from a far number of pre-preschool parents. Pre-preps sort of spread the word: tweedy casual. The public and alternative kids who show up in jean and baseball cap somehow rarely make the cut.</p>
<p>Teaching the kids to "Dress for Success" begins at home.</p>
<p>Obviously, those who dress in jeans and baseball caps won't make the cut.</p>
<p>But, as I am inclined to do, I have taken a little offense with the "public and alternative" kids... I'm a public school student, as are many of us on this site, and we dress just as well as some of you "Pre-prep" people. Just saying.</p>
<p>Exeter and Andover each run about 50/50 in public/private school admits.</p>
<p>My son is from public school as well and he was wearing khakis, shirt, tie and blazer to exeter interview. I did see an unfortunate soul though whose family was clearly not informed. They thought they were there for a tour not an interview. The parents were in jeans and the kid was in hoodie, jeans and dirty sneakers. Even if they thought it was a tour the parents should have had the common sense to make the kid put on some clean clothes at least.<br>
There is an advantage to coming from a private school where the kids/parents are prepped for this interview process. If we didn't have CC it would've been a lot tougher!</p>
<p>remember guys that these schools want diversity. It may actually pay off to be a little "different" during an interview.</p>
<p>I read an interesting article recently. It said that since the economic downturn employees are wearing better clothes and shoes to work. Flip Flops, Ugg Boots, T-shirts & jeans seem to have disappeared from the corporate world. Except Casual Friday of course!
I can't remember where I saw this, maybe it was a dream.</p>