Best private schools in NYC?

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recently riverdale has overtaken all but trinity.

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I'm just wondering..why are they so expensive? What do they offer that other schools don't? Any bilingual schools around? English-Spanish? English-French?

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Anonymous wrote:I am one of the NBS/Trinity people from above. Granted this was 30 years ago, but the girls in my class at Trinity who came from Spence - and there were about 5 of them, were super smart and total grinds. From what I remember, they ended up at Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. It’s always been a snakepit of girls but you gotta be impressed by the teaching.

Mom and 2 cousins went to Spence. Obviously anecdotal, but my mom went to h, one cousin went Yale, and the second is a junior at Columbia. They’re all simply phenomenal schools. If you do well there, you’re going to get into a good school.

Btw, my mom hated school, got kicked out of a boarding school abroad and wound up at Spence. She absolutely loved it there. Two of her best friends are classmates.

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Echoing St. Bernard's being a top K-8 pick for boys. As an Old Boy (what they call alumni), I'd rate it the top pick in the category, and the finest school I attended by a long shot. That's coming from someone who went on to Trinity and Harvard.

Buckley also had a reputation as a TT all-boys K-8, but I am less familiar with its program today. Collegiate was TT both K-8 and K-12 (Buckley and St. Bernard's don't continue past 9th grade, with 9th generally reserved for the few students who are going to boarding school but aren't yet mature enough).

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Anonymous wrote:Echoing St. Bernard's being a top K-8 pick for boys. As an Old Boy (what they call alumni), I'd rate it the top pick in the category, and the finest school I attended by a long shot. That's coming from someone who went on to Trinity and Harvard.

Buckley also had a reputation as a TT all-boys K-8, but I am less familiar with its program today. Collegiate was TT both K-8 and K-12 (Buckley and St. Bernard's don't continue past 9th grade, with 9th generally reserved for the few students who are going to boarding school but aren't yet mature enough).

Thanks for your feedback on St. Bernard's! looking into it for my son to apply this fall.
I know there was some recent brouhaha over the headmaster (only from what I read in the NYT a few years ago) but the current head seems awesome.

[Anonymous]

For co-ed Riverdale is now at the top then Trinity. Dalton is in free-fall. google it.

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Anonymous wrote:For co-ed Riverdale is now at the top then Trinity. Dalton is in free-fall. google it.

have you seen dalton matriculation? if that’s free-fall, i’m jumping.

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Anonymous wrote:For co-ed Riverdale is now at the top then Trinity. Dalton is in free-fall. google it.

have you seen dalton matriculation? if that’s free-fall, i’m jumping.

can you share link to their college exmissions this year?

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Mom to a Chapin middle schooler who got in after attending Avenues since nursery school. She received a fabulous education and is now completely fluent in Spanish as well. Her best friend who also attended Avenues since nursery is attending Horace Mann. It’s just a newer school so does not have the clout of the others.
I would not say Riverdale has surpassed Horace Mann. That is just false.

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Anonymous wrote:Mom to a Chapin middle schooler who got in after attending Avenues since nursery school. She received a fabulous education and is now completely fluent in Spanish as well. Her best friend who also attended Avenues since nursery is attending Horace Mann. It’s just a newer school so does not have the clout of the others.
I would not say Riverdale has surpassed Horace Mann. That is just false.

Thank you for sharing. Do you know if the Avenues kids who take Mandarin also come out as fluent as the Spanish kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Mom to a Chapin middle schooler who got in after attending Avenues since nursery school. She received a fabulous education and is now completely fluent in Spanish as well. Her best friend who also attended Avenues since nursery is attending Horace Mann. It’s just a newer school so does not have the clout of the others.
I would not say Riverdale has surpassed Horace Mann. That is just false.

LOL sure

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just wondering..why are they so expensive? What do they offer that other schools don't? Any bilingual schools around? English-Spanish? English-French?

NY is expensive

Look at the cost of a slice

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mom to a Chapin middle schooler who got in after attending Avenues since nursery school. She received a fabulous education and is now completely fluent in Spanish as well. Her best friend who also attended Avenues since nursery is attending Horace Mann. It’s just a newer school so does not have the clout of the others.
I would not say Riverdale has surpassed Horace Mann. That is just false.

LOL sure

I have two children currently at Avenues and I am also completely fluent in Spanish so I’m a decent judge of fluency. If the student puts in the work, they will leave Avenues lower school completely fluent in their chosen language.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mom to a Chapin middle schooler who got in after attending Avenues since nursery school. She received a fabulous education and is now completely fluent in Spanish as well. Her best friend who also attended Avenues since nursery is attending Horace Mann. It’s just a newer school so does not have the clout of the others.
I would not say Riverdale has surpassed Horace Mann. That is just false.

Thank you for sharing. Do you know if the Avenues kids who take Mandarin also come out as fluent as the Spanish kids?

Mandarin is a more difficult language to acquire and I don’t have first-hand knowledge but I believe they do. A great benefit to the Mandarin track is that the classes remain very intimate. The Spanish track accepts more kids throughout the course of the lower school years.

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Anonymous wrote:Mom to a Chapin middle schooler who got in after attending Avenues since nursery school. She received a fabulous education and is now completely fluent in Spanish as well. Her best friend who also attended Avenues since nursery is attending Horace Mann. It’s just a newer school so does not have the clout of the others.
I would not say Riverdale has surpassed Horace Mann. That is just false.

Is Avenues supportive with exmissions to other schools at the middle school level? Do the children feel prepared to attend schools like Chapin and HM?