Chance of being admitted to KG at top private NYC school

[Anonymous]

- Assuming we're not in the alumni / sibling category. Both parents started lower to middle class, one foreign, and achieved significantly but more like VP-level roles in corporations, not startup founders or partner at a hedge fund.

Also, if the tuition states 60k, with after-care programs and add-ons, how much should we actually factor in?

[Anonymous]

This is a question for nycitymoms.com

[Anonymous]

Nobody gets into Town

(Anyone? Beuller?)

[Anonymous]

It depends on how you and your child “perform” at K interviews. At our “TT” (I dislike that term) school, 20-something percent of our class is siblings/legacies. That percentage is much higher at other schools. And lower at others. Then you add in additional URM students and those who add to the diversity pool. Then they figure out where those kids fit (in terms of class makeup with birthdays, behaviors/temperaments), and try to balance out those kids with the remaining kids. Some years, certain schools are only looking for certain candidates (for example, girls with early birthdays), and other years the criteria is totally different (based largely on the sibling/legacy/faculty child makeup). How likely you are to get in to a particular school hinges mostly on this, and secondarily on how your family interviews/performs on the personality/skills/interview assessments. Join Parents League if you’re interested in having an advisor help you with your list.

For the cost, it depends on the school and programs. Some schools have after-school programs in the hundreds, and other in the thousands. Multiply that by five days a week, and the range is huge. There are also so many off-site activities - you can sign your kid up for a $5500 year of tennis or $2000 year of generic sports (or random sports classes for a few hundred $ per semester). Some people spend and extra $10k or more per year on extracurriculars, and others spend less than $1000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody gets into Town

(Anyone? Beuller?)

Omg!! So many memories. Damn I miss UB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- Assuming we're not in the alumni / sibling category. Both parents started lower to middle class, one foreign, and achieved significantly but more like VP-level roles in corporations, not startup founders or partner at a hedge fund.

Also, if the tuition states 60k, with after-care programs and add-ons, how much should we actually factor in?

Take a look at the Trinity School annual report (https://www.trinityschoolnyc.org/support-trinity/annual-report): 565 applied and 69 were accepted. And their yield is enviable - only 6 families turned them down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Assuming we're not in the alumni / sibling category. Both parents started lower to middle class, one foreign, and achieved significantly but more like VP-level roles in corporations, not startup founders or partner at a hedge fund.

Also, if the tuition states 60k, with after-care programs and add-ons, how much should we actually factor in?

Take a look at the Trinity School annual report (https://www.trinityschoolnyc.org/support-trinity/annual-report): 565 applied and 69 were accepted. And their yield is enviable - only 6 families turned them down.

So many siblings, legacies, and faculty/staff children in that “accepted” category. Getting in for K as unconnected is near-impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a question for nycitymoms.com

no longer works unfortunately