NMSF Semifinalists

[Anonymous]

Hunter College High 60
Stuyvesant 155
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Horace Mann 25
Jericho High School 23
Scarsdale High 23
TRINITY SCHOOL 12
DALTON SCHOOL 11
CHAPIN SCHOOL 5
NIGHTINGALE 3
MARYMOUNT 1

[Anonymous]

Look like public schools outperform private schools by a mile.

[Anonymous]

How about as a % of students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about as a % of students

Brooklyn Tech - 37 (2.5%)
Bronx Sci - 44 (5.8%)
HSMSE - 13 (10.8%)
Stuy - 155 (20.6%)
Hunter - 60 (30% - this is low for Hunter!)

I don't know sizes of private schools

[Anonymous]

I may have made a mistake, but I counted 61 for Hunter.

Regis--all male, Catholic, free tuition for all, had 15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I may have made a mistake, but I counted 61 for Hunter.

Regis--all male, Catholic, free tuition for all, had 15.

And one of those is my son!

[Anonymous]

Spence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

Spence?

5

[Anonymous]

Why so few students at private schools made it to NMSF? Less rigorous compared to magnet schools? Particularly girls schools, chapin, nightingdale, marymount, 5, 3, and 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why so few students at private schools made it to NMSF? Less rigorous compared to magnet schools? Particularly girls schools, chapin, nightingdale, marymount, 5, 3, and 1.

Small contingent to start with. Do some math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why so few students at private schools made it to NMSF? Less rigorous compared to magnet schools? Particularly girls schools, chapin, nightingdale, marymount, 5, 3, and 1.

Small contingent to start with. Do some math.

Not really. These private schools are extremely selective, supposedly everyone has the caliber to crack a simple test. The math section is at the middle school level.

Rigor of the schools is the issue. Not really worth the money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why so few students at private schools made it to NMSF? Less rigorous compared to magnet schools? Particularly girls schools, chapin, nightingdale, marymount, 5, 3, and 1.

Keep in mind NYC public school students have been tested to death for the past ten years. My dcs now attend a private hs. They are killing it on the PSAT and SAT versus their private grammar school educated classmates. I chalk it up to a decade of test prep and test taking in school. Also, the SHSAT is harder than the ISEE/SSAT/HSPT/TACHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I may have made a mistake, but I counted 61 for Hunter.

Regis--all male, Catholic, free tuition for all, had 15.

And one of those is my son!

Congratulations to your son!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Keep in mind NYC public school students have been tested to death for the past ten years. My dcs now attend a private hs. They are killing it on the PSAT and SAT versus their private grammar school educated classmates. I chalk it up to a decade of test prep and test taking in school. Also, the SHSAT is harder than the ISEE/SSAT/HSPT/TACHS.

Testing started at Kindergarten. In addition to supplemental tutoring. The feeder pipeline was Hunter/G&T program.

Private school has more of an emphasis on well roundedness compared to public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Keep in mind NYC public school students have been tested to death for the past ten years. My dcs now attend a private hs. They are killing it on the PSAT and SAT versus their private grammar school educated classmates. I chalk it up to a decade of test prep and test taking in school. Also, the SHSAT is harder than the ISEE/SSAT/HSPT/TACHS.

Testing started at Kindergarten. In addition to supplemental tutoring. The feeder pipeline was Hunter/G&T program.

Private school has more of an emphasis on well roundedness compared to public school.

As a former public school parent K-8, I would disagree on the last sentence. I think my children's public school education was well rounded. At the private schools, they just don't waste the spring on tests.