Best private schools in NYC?

[Anonymous]

What is the grade inflation like at the TT schools? Do most of the kids in high school school get As? I wonder because a lot of suburban schools that my relatives' kids attend give out mostly As so it is so hard to distinguish between the students. It always seems like everyone has a 4.0 (uw) or 4.8 or something with APs. Do the private schools do the same so the kids can compete on GPA for college applications?

[Anonymous]

They actually disclose that information in their college profiles - for example Horace Mann's https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1728397429/horacemann/szq8dkzflvd840kzdvo3/HMSchoolProfile2024-25F.pdf has 83% of the class averaging either an A- or B+, just 1% got 4.0's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the grade inflation like at the TT schools? Do most of the kids in high school school get As? I wonder because a lot of suburban schools that my relatives' kids attend give out mostly As so it is so hard to distinguish between the students. It always seems like everyone has a 4.0 (uw) or 4.8 or something with APs. Do the private schools do the same so the kids can compete on GPA for college applications?

Inflation doesn’t exist. Half of these classes would be a serious contender for valedictorian at any strong public school like Scarsdale. Many schools don’t weight. Single digits will have a 4.0 or above. Even that hypothetical drug addled psycho with billionaire parents in the bottom quarter of a TT would be in the top decile at Scarsdale or Jericho.

[Anonymous]

Grade inflation tends to consist not so much of overestimating brainpower as of overestimating effort; lots of kids both at TT prep schools and TT colleges phone in their work and still get A's, they're smart enough to get into those places but they don't care to spend their time being diligent students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation tends to consist not so much of overestimating brainpower as of overestimating effort; lots of kids both at TT prep schools and TT colleges phone in their work and still get A's, they're smart enough to get into those places but they don't care to spend their time being diligent students.

That’s not true at a Founders League or Ivy Prep league school. The public high schools give out A’s from a pez dispenser. Trinity and Dalton and Andover and Riverdale are full of extraordinarily hard working, well resourced students who struggle to keep a 3.7.

[Anonymous]

This is not true from what I've heard, and I can say from firsthand experience that it's not remotely true at HYP.

[Anonymous]

Also, if you check the college profile for Scarsdale High School - which you seem to have a weird beef with for some reason? - their grade distribution is less generous than HM's:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H83rvG4GQt5LJRPZJBDnJSwzPnRc-kDf/view

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They actually disclose that information in their college profiles - for example Horace Mann's https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1728397429/horacemann/szq8dkzflvd840kzdvo3/HMSchoolProfile2024-25F.pdf has 83% of the class averaging either an A- or B+, just 1% got 4.0's.

I can't find this info for the girls schools, but I have heard they don't rank or publicly release GPAs. Is that true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, if you check the college profile for Scarsdale High School - which you seem to have a weird beef with for some reason? - their grade distribution is less generous than HM's:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H83rvG4GQt5LJRPZJBDnJSwzPnRc-kDf/view

That’s because literally anyone who can afford rent in the town limits can attend. Druggies, truants, it’s impossible to get kicked out of public school short of felonious violent crime. There are broke, sociopathic misfits with double digits that’d never get into a TT. The admissions process of a TT is so grueling and onerous.

[Anonymous]

You just said they "give out A's from a pez dispenser" so which is it? (and do you seriously think "broke, sociopathic misfits" are a significant portion of the student body in *Scarsdale*?)

[Anonymous]

Average SAT score for Horace Mann: 1426
Average SAT score for SHS: 1399

Despite the "grueling and onerous" admissions process for the former and the fact that the latter lets in all of Scarsdale's many broke drug addicts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You just said they "give out A's from a pez dispenser" so which is it? (and do you seriously think "broke, sociopathic misfits" are a significant portion of the student body in *Scarsdale*?)

If you show up and do your homework you’ll get good grades at any public high school. That is far from the case at Horace Mann, maybe you get a B- A lot of public school students are neurodiverse or have parents who don’t care about education. Almost no one from either category ends up at Trinity. They are counseled out or never interviewed in the first place. Billionaires are smart, so are their children. They go to TTs in the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Average SAT score for Horace Mann: 1426
Average SAT score for SHS: 1399

Despite the "grueling and onerous" admissions process for the former and the fact that the latter lets in all of Scarsdale's many broke drug addicts

You do realize HM accepts a ton of poor kids and DEI admits? It weighs down the averages significantly.

[Anonymous]

94% of Horace Mann has a GPA higher than a B-, I'm pretty sure that more than 6% of those kids are slackers to some degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:94% of Horace Mann has a GPA higher than a B-, I'm pretty sure that more than 6% of those kids are slackers to some degree.

An A- is a horrible grade at a public school. This isn’t apples to apples.