10 Top Prep Schools That Have Produced Wall Street's Biggest Names
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Deerfield Academy
Notable Wall Street Alum: Chase Coleman (Tiger Global), John Weinberg (former Goldman Sachs chairman)
Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts
Enrollment: ~600
Fun Fact: Both Coleman and Weinberg played lacrosse at Deerfield Academy.
The Browning School
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase CEO)
Location: 52 East 62nd Street, New York, NY
Enrollment: ~375 (all boys)
Fun Fact: Famed short-seller Jim Chanos (Kynikos Associates) is the president of the school's board of trustees. His three sons graduated from Browning.
Philips Exeter Academy
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): Tom Steyer (former co-senior managing partner of Farallon Capital Management), Stephen Mandel ("Tiger Cub"/ Lone Pine) and Olivier Sarkozy (Carlyle Group's head of the global financial services)
Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
Enrollment: ~1,071
Fun Fact: Bloomberg TV anchor Trish Regan graduated from there, too.
Phillips Academy (Andover)
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): Teddy Forstmann, Scott Mead (former Goldman partner/ dealmaker and founder of Richmond Park Capital), Oscar Tang (founder of Reich and Tang), Sandra 'Sandy' Urie (Cambridge Associates founder)
Location: Andover, Massachusetts
Enrollment: ~1,102
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): Leon Black (Apollo Management) and Thomas Strauss (former president of Salomon Brothers)
Location: New York, New York
Enrollment: ~1,600 (pre-K through 12)
Fun Fact: Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's wife, Laura, is on the school's board of trustees. She graduated in 1971.
Lawrenceville School
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): John Gutfreund (former CEO of Salomon Brothers), Glenn Hutchins (co-founder of Silver Lake), Seth Waugh (former Deutsche Bank CEO) and Meredith Whitney (CEO of the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group.
Location: Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Enrollment: ~809
Fun Fact: Glenn Hutchins was on the wrestling team and the football team in high school.
Milton Academy
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): Richard Perry (Perry Capital)
Location: Milton, Massachusetts
Enrollment: ~675 (upper school)
Fun Fact: Perry (pictured second in the back row for the tennis team photo) worked at Milton's finance office part-time as a student. He also ran a real estate investment trust (REIT) for a school project, according to Fortune.
Loomis Chaffee School
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): KKR's Henry Kravis (pictured front row center of the 1962 wrestling team), Chase Olcott Stevenson (former Goldman Sachs partner) and John D. Rockefeller III.
Location: Windsor, Connecticut
Enrollment: ~650
The Hotchkiss School
Notable Wall Street Alum(s): Shelby Bonnie (Allen & Company partner), Stephen Greenberg (Allen & Co. managing director), Raymond J. McGuire (Head Global Banking, Citigroup), Harold Stanley (founder of Morgan Stanley), Robert Lehman (Lehman Brothers)
Location: Lakeville, Connecticut
Enrollment: ~599
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