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The entrants in my little competition were the Campmor, the North Face, the Marmot E.C.O. vest ($89, fleece made by Dyersburg from recycled plastic soda bottles), and the Patagonia Synchilla Snap-T ($86, the it-fleece of the prep-school, Phish-fan set).
I was middling performer in high school and middling performer on the SATs but in fact graduated 26th or so out of 400 or so from Widener--well ahead of all those characters with the orthodonture and prep-school educations.
I went to Widener University, south of Philadelphia, where I found myself in the company of a great many prep-school boys who had blond hair, orthodonture--and every other conceivable advantage, including prepping for the SATs that had probably boosted their scores by 100 points or more.
Far from playing this down, he revels in Brahmin shtick, incessantly gabbing with reporters about his prep-school days, publicly proclaiming the sacrosanctity of his twice-weekly squash games, and cracking jokes like "The Welds arrived in 1630 with only the shirts on their backs and 2,000 pounds of gold."
A 566 verbal would not have gotten you into the Yale Class of 1968, especially with mediocre prep-school grades, if you weren't also the son-and grandson, for good measure-of a Yale alumnus.