why is it a good thing to be from st louis?
by: txI'm from Dallas (U Park) and had no idea St Louis was seen as a 'nice area' until this summer. Any help?
#1 by: Guest
St.Louis can be loaded. A lot of girls who rush went to private school in STL so it can help you by knowing other girls already in chapters. But on the flip side a lot of girls who aren't from STL find the whole STL Clique thing annoying.
Being from Dallas is fine. I'm from Dallas, half my house is from Texas. You'll be fine.
Comment#2 by: mo
You'll never get a concrete answer on this. It still baffles me and I'm a senior. I could understand if you're from a rich family in St Louis but St Louis' idea of rich is middle-class everywhere else. There's definitely nice suburbs of St Louis but compared to that city everything is nice.
#3 by: yeah
STL people have a complex about being rich and snobby.. what's rich in St Louis is middle class in Chicago (where i'm from) so I just laugh at it. Ignore it. Dallas rocks and you will be fine. If you're an outstanding PNM, houses could not care less about where you're from.
#4 by: lol
St Louis snobbery is one of those concepts so bizarre and irrational that you almost have to respect it. It's not every day you find people living in a city plagued with one of the highest crime rates and a median income of under 60k who truly believe they live in a mecca of culture and class yet, here we are.
by: Not from hereJul 16, 2014 12:59:19 AM
I've heard that STL old money judges people more by where they went to high school than where they went to college.
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by: Miss94Jul 16, 2014 10:21:14 AM
#6 by: Guest
Clearly none of you have been to Dallas because it's not "gun rack" capitol of the world. The metropolitan areas of Texas are exactly like STL and Chicago. It's when you get to the backwater parts of Texas that you really get into those stereotypes.
As somebody from Dallas, you're perfectly fine. We actually prefer public school STL girls to private school ones because they earned their grades, didn't pay for them and are generally more down to earth and are used to working with other people instead of gossiping about them.
by: Except..Jul 15, 2014 5:08:55 PM
Except it IS the Pickup and Gun Rack Capitol of the World. I spent the longest summer of my life in Dallas. The temperature was ungodly, the people were ignorant and the politicians were a joke. My favorite evening may have been when I attended a "coming out" debutante party and was stalled in a long line of spiffy pickups waiting for valet parking. Have you EVER heard of someone taking a pickup to a formal affair? Only in Texas. Tacky, tacky, tacky.
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by: HmmmJul 15, 2014 6:34:03 PM
by: Except..Jul 16, 2014 1:56:17 PM
I don't know enough about Dallas to know whether Dallas Country Club is elite or not, but I do know that the people I stayed with (my aunt and uncle, while my parents were abroad for the summer) aren't "dip using honky tonks." In fact, my uncle is CFO of a Fortune 100 company based in Dallas. And while the pickups that were lined up were shiny, new and bog, they were pickup trucks nonetheless. And that's just tacky.
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#7 by: Jen
I always think private school St.Louis girls are pathetic because they all brag about how prestigious their school was and how hard it is to get in and what a great education they got and yet we all ended up at Mizzou so in the end, was it really better than a free education?
by: importanceJul 16, 2014 9:41:38 AM
If you stay in St. Louis for your lifetime, it's more important WHERE you went to high school than where you went to college, and that's an undisputed fact. It's always been like that. My dad went to Country Day, and then he went to Mizzou. That's just the way it is. Plus, exactly what are you saying? Mizzou is for penniless losers? Only idiotic private school kids and poor people go to Mizzou?
Mizzou has the #1 J school in the nation, has a great engineering school, highly ranked school of agriculture, and the Veterinary school is arguably #1 as well. My dad got a business degree from Mizzou, but he got his job through who he knew from high school. I don't get the animosity towards private school, unless you're jealous?
As for the argument regarding "buying" grades, wouldn't people who did that flunk out of Mizzou? So all those private school girls who bought their grades and yet got in a top sorority- one with top grades- those private school girls are bringing down the house average? Pffft. Please.
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by: Dear jenJul 16, 2014 10:17:38 AM
A public school education is NOT FREE. Someone paid taxes for that, and don't you ever forget it. God, how I wish these public school kids were actually educated instead of told "everything's free".
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by: SighJul 16, 2014 12:29:34 PM
This just proves Wow's point. The absolute lack of grammar, punctuation, and basic understanding of the English language in Yeah's post proves that her education was sub-par. While you might have had a 4.2 in high school (Seriously how did you achieve this?) and a 3.8 in college (Are you sure you passed English 1000?); your lack of capitalization shows that whomever taught you clearly did not pay any attention to the fundamentals. Honestly, I was briefly amazed Mizzou accepted you. Then I recalled that an admissions essay was not required. How fortunate for you!
I would also like to note that most private schools in St. Louis do not add a .5 grade bump for taking honors classes. It is sad that in public high schools they need to bribe their students to challenge themselves. I suppose you noticed that Mizzou does not give an extra .5 boost in your GPA. Did you feel prepared for your transition to college when that happened?
By the by, "For which my own parents pay taxes," is actually the correct way to write your last sentence. It's a shame that no one has corrected you until this point. You're welcome.
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#8 by: the Lou
Honestly I'm from Chesterfield and while I think it's great it's really nothing special. The two nicest places I've been in are the LA suburbs and Connecticut. Also two places I've never met anyone from at Mizzou. It's pointless to debate Texas vs. Missouri vs. Illinois or whatever. They are all more or less the same.
#9 by: facts
by: uhJul 16, 2014 11:16:05 AM
a 500k salary IS wealthy. that is part of the top 10 percent.. do you know this???
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by: the LouJul 15, 2014 5:40:07 PM
This is great haha. I completely agree, still love my town
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