Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
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Anonymous
I'm the table-creating poster - I didn't post the Regis post. Since there's so much Regis interest, here's the breakdown: Regis source: https://regis.org/about/ Regis official 2022-2025 aggregate: N=521 Summary: HYPSM: 29/521 = 5.6% Ivy+WASP: 128/521 = 24.6% USN26+LAC10: 226/521 = 43.4% HYPSM Princeton University — 12 Yale University — 7 Harvard University — 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 3 Stanford University — 1 Cumulative after HYPSM: 29/521 = 5.6% Rest of Ivy+WASP Cornell University — 24 Columbia University — 16 University of Pennsylvania — 12 Williams College — 12 University of Chicago — 10 Duke University — 6 Brown University — 5 Northwestern University — 5 California Institute of Technology — 2 Dartmouth College — 2 Johns Hopkins University — 2 Vanderbilt University — 2 Pomona College — 1 Cumulative after Ivy+WASP: 128/521 = 24.6% Rest of USN26+LAC10 Georgetown University — 36 University of Notre Dame — 24 Emory University — 8 Carnegie Mellon University — 5 Rice University — 5 University of Virginia — 5 United States Military Academy — 3 United States Naval Academy — 3 University of Michigan — 3 Washington University in St. Louis — 2 Carleton College — 1 Harvey Mudd College — 1 United States Air Force Academy — 1 University of California, Berkeley — 1 Cumulative after USN26+LAC10: 226/521 = 43.4% |
Anonymous
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Original point of thread was Instagram though (we did historic data from schools because we all though Instagram was skewed/biased), so this is back to the 2026 Instagram Data - added the USN26+LAC10 because everyone wants more schools.
Definitions: Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt WASP = Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + WASP HYPSM = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT USN26+LAC10 = U.S. News National Universities rank-through-#26 + U.S. News Liberal Arts Colleges rank-through-#10, including ties School (N): Ivy+WASP; HYPSM; USN26+LAC10 | Instagram source 70+% Brearley (52): 71%; 27%; 83% | @brearley26collegedecisions 60-70% Spence (64): 64%; 19%; 83% | @spence26niors Chapin (52): 62%; 12%; 79% | @chapin26decisions 50-60% Dalton (63): 59%; 22%; 71% | @daltondecisions2026 40-50% Saint Ann's (73): 49%; 10%; 67% | @saintannsseniors2026 Horace Mann (131): 49%; 5%; 63% | @maroonlions26 Trinity (109): 48%; 12%; 69% | @trindecisions2026 Regis (80): 45%; 8%; 68% | @regisdecisions2026 Nightingale (57): 42%; 2%; 61% | @nbs2enior6 Riverdale (131): 41%; 8%; 65% | @riv26seniors 30-40% Hunter (123): 39%; 10%; 59% | @hawkscommit2026 Browning (27): 37%; 7%; 59% | @browningdecisions26 Packer (92): 30%; 3%; 48% | @packerseniors26 Fieldston (141): 30%; 9%; 46% | @fieldstonseniors2026 20-30% Friends Seminary (40): 28%; 5%; 50% | @Fsclassof2026 CGPS (119): 27%; 3%; 48% | @lionsseniors2026 Dwight-Englewood (126): 25%; 6%; 37% | @deseniors2026 Avenues (97): 23%; 4%; 36% | @avenues_seniors; current-class posts since 2025-12-01 10-20% Berkeley Carroll (77): 18%; 0%; 43% | @bcsseniors2026 Poly Prep (123): 18%; 2%; 38% | @polyprep26 Trevor (88): 18%; 1%; 31% | @trevor2eni6rs Grace Church (80): 18%; 1%; 30% | @grace2026colleges Sacred Heart (61): 16%; 3%; 30% | @csh2026decisions Marymount (71): 11%; 1%; 31% | @mmt26collegewall Brooklyn Friends (49): 10%; 0%; 14% | @bfsclassof26 |
Anonymous
Tell me again how SA is not TT… |
Anonymous
| It's tier 2. Along with Regis |
Anonymous
| BSC and Nightingale all seem to be punching above their weight class here, perhaps because girls tend to be better at getting into college than boys. |
Anonymous
All girls and tiny class—recipe for excellent eximission. |
Anonymous
How is Brearley punching above its weight class? Niche ranks it as the number one K-12 private in the nation. |
Anonymous
Regis is really outperforming this year versus that historic table. But much less of their class has posted on instagram than the other schools, whatever that might mean. Why do we care so much about Regis? The real surprises (versus vibes here) are that HM/Trinity aren't clumped with Dalton, Nightingale outperforms, Hunter underperforms, CSH, Marymount really underperform? |
Anonymous
| Does it matter? if your DC is top 10% at CSH or Marymount, vs. top 70% at Brearley? TTs like Brearley is impossible to get into. You probably have a pretty good idea whether the kid is going to perform well at either tier of schools by the age of 10 or 12. |
Anonymous
Niche is useless ranking. doesn't it have like 4 NYC SS schools in the top 10 in the country |
Anonymous
It's not going to be walk in the park to get top 10% at Marymount. |
Anonymous
If your DD is okay with going to an all girls school - it is the best path to a very good college outcome. It's probably the clearest thing of all the data that has been shown in that those tables. Second would be that for college results going to private school is a very good ROI, no matter what the school. |
Anonymous
What does this mean? |
Anonymous
If you live on the west side it is - how else would you get there? |
Anonymous
it means that getting to be the top handful of girls in Marymount requires work and intelligence. People make it out to be that this stuff is all so easy to do. |