New Trier is a high school located in Winnetka, Illinois. It has over
4,000 students and is exceedingly wealthy. It cannot be denied that almost all the students are very
rich, but the definitions describing the Louis Vuitton dayplanners, etc., are
pretty extreme. There probably is someone at New Trier with a Louis Vuitton dayplanner, but that's one person. In essence, almost everyone is
rich, but most don't go so far as to use designer dayplanners.
New Trier kids usually get very good test scores, and the usual 3-level class would be
pretty accelerated in most other places. The Science Olympiad team has won state for the past six years. Sometimes the real intelligence of students at the school is questioned.
There was an article in Time magazine in the '90s called "High Times At New Trier High." This accurately sums up the drug usage at New Trier. Many students at New Trier are users. Many also drink.
The sports teams are usually quite good, and therefore hard to make. This is discouraging for some, but there are alternatives, like Night League (a
basketball organization of New Trier kids that plays on
Wednesday nights). Also, this excellence at sports cause other schools to have a hatred for New Trier. However, this is not without cause; some students at the school display a
cocky, egotistical attitude.
