Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

[Anonymous]

My guess is once Brearley and Chapin finish the class - and adds the remaining 10 girls - Spence will end up on the top.

must have been a very $$$ class at Spence this year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is once Brearley and Chapin finish the class - and adds the remaining 10 girls - Spence will end up on the top.

must have been a very $$$ class at Spence this year!

Naw. It will be Brearley as it is every year. But Spence has great stats as well, no doubt about it. Chapin hasn’t really been as good as them the last few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is once Brearley and Chapin finish the class - and adds the remaining 10 girls - Spence will end up on the top.

must have been a very $$$ class at Spence this year!

Naw. It will be Brearley as it is every year. But Spence has great stats as well, no doubt about it. Chapin hasn’t really been as good as them the last few years.

disagree but both are great as you point out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Half or more of the ivy admits at these schools are hooked. 10% CSH or Marymount doesn't mean top 10% all go to an ivy. Probably means only 3 or 5 unhooked kids from CSH or Marymount are accepted into ivies each year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

Tell me again how SA is not TT…

It's impressive given less hooked admits than the other TT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Half or more of the ivy admits at these schools are hooked. 10% CSH or Marymount doesn't mean top 10% all go to an ivy. Probably means only 3 or 5 unhooked kids from CSH or Marymount are accepted into ivies each year.

are you saying more than half of us with kids at a TT are hooked?

don't think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Half or more of the ivy admits at these schools are hooked. 10% CSH or Marymount doesn't mean top 10% all go to an ivy. Probably means only 3 or 5 unhooked kids from CSH or Marymount are accepted into ivies each year.

are you saying more than half of us with kids at a TT are hooked?

don't think so.

Definitely not.

But half of ivy admits at the TT are hooked: donor, legacy, low income, first gen, athlete, connection, faculty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Half or more of the ivy admits at these schools are hooked. 10% CSH or Marymount doesn't mean top 10% all go to an ivy. Probably means only 3 or 5 unhooked kids from CSH or Marymount are accepted into ivies each year.

are you saying more than half of us with kids at a TT are hooked?

don't think so.

Definitely not.

But half of ivy admits at the TT are hooked: donor, legacy, low income, first gen, athlete, connection, faculty.

More than half. For HYP 75%+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Half or more of the ivy admits at these schools are hooked. 10% CSH or Marymount doesn't mean top 10% all go to an ivy. Probably means only 3 or 5 unhooked kids from CSH or Marymount are accepted into ivies each year.

are you saying more than half of us with kids at a TT are hooked?

don't think so.

Definitely not.

But half of ivy admits at the TT are hooked: donor, legacy, low income, first gen, athlete, connection, faculty.

So, say Dalton has 30 kids going to the Ivy this year. 15 are hooked and 15 are not.
How many of the hooked 15 are legacy? versus FGLI? versus donor?

Legacy/donor helps for one (or two) school, not broadly like FGLI

[Anonymous]

Wonder how many are Questbridge .. at any of these schools.

I wish a school would put out unhooked stats like Harvard westlake does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how many are Questbridge .. at any of these schools.

I wish a school would put out unhooked stats like Harvard westlake does.

Not to open a can of worms, but the downside of programs like those is that people assume that minority students who got in did so through a program like that (which has high standards, but generally not as high standards as the applicant pool), so those who got in 100% on their own merits are considered to be "weaker" than they are.

And the same obviously applies to legacies and athletes, though for better or worse, the stigma is less (legacies tend to have fewer outliers than the other groups, though they definitely exist).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how many are Questbridge .. at any of these schools.

I wish a school would put out unhooked stats like Harvard westlake does.

link to HW?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how many are Questbridge .. at any of these schools.

I wish a school would put out unhooked stats like Harvard westlake does.

link to HW?

(page 37)

Harvard-Westlake college counseling handbook

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

This list realigns vibe (prestige) and reality. If the goal is an ivy, the last tier (10-20%) schools will disappoint the families. Go for the 30-40% tier to have a realistic chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

This list realigns vibe (prestige) and reality. If the goal is an ivy, the last tier (10-20%) schools will disappoint the families. Go for the 30-40% tier to have a realistic chance.

I am not going to live vicariously through my dc. I look forward to retirement more than having my dc be admitted to HYP.