elite school
Selective educational institution
An elite school is an educational institution with high academic standards, selective admissions, and social prestige.
The term covers prep schools, top universities, and other institutions that educate children of the wealthy or academically gifted: She attended elite schools her whole life.
Elite school often carries connotations of privilege, social networking, and doors opened by reputation rather than merit alone.
- Ivy LeagueElite university athletic conference
- prestigiousHaving high standing
- privateRestricted to certain parties
- exclusiveLimited to one group
- admissionsActs of letting in
acceptance letter · tuition · alumni · old boys club · Harvard · college prep · legacy · privileged · uniform · campus · endowment · valedictorian · headmaster · class roster · lacrosse · blazer · pedigree · selectivity
- schoolscollege, academy, university, preschool, kindergarten
- prep schoolsacademy, Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Spence
- selective schoolsselective admission, admission criteria, entrance exam, gifted education
- wealthriches, wealth, fortune, affluence, prosperity
elite schoolcommunity college
Two-year public institution
public school · comprehensive school · state school · local school · mass education
elite schoolpublic school
Free government-run education
free school · public education · state education · mass education
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