Sounds like he definitely wasn't exaggerating when it came to the limitations they had. The schools themselves wouldn't let Bravo TV include their names, and only one school agreed to let any filming happen in the school itself (via The New York Times). As reported in the New York Times, the director of institutional advancement of one of the prep schools featured in the show released a statement shortly after the show aired, which read, "The Nightingale-Bamford School has no affiliation with the Bravo television program 'NYC Prep,' and we strongly disagree with how it seeks to portray independent school students in New York. One of our students decided to participate in the show without consulting Nightingale's administrators."
Some parents saw the portrayal of the prep school kids as potentially damaging to their own children. The president of a private school parents' group told The New York Times, "This is a show that represents a group of kids doing a lot of excessive and risky behavior. This really isn't representative of who we are."
