Best private schools in NYC?

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Anonymous wrote:Map testing is sooooo easy compared to the ISEE.

Yes but my point is that both are tied to how much you've learned rather than how smart you are.

I’d like to hear what standardized test admitted students start taking once they are in? The test each school uses to ensure their students are learning. I know Avenues uses the ISA. What does Spence, Trinity, Dalton, Chapin, etc use?

ERB

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So where did everyone get into?

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Anonymous wrote:So where did everyone get into?

We’re already at Dalton, but my sibling’s kid is going to Trinity (legacy, though), and two of my friend’s are also going to dalton. My cousin’s daughter will be going to spence (legacy, too). Everyone’s pretty happy, but my sibling wants to move their child somewhere else for high school.

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Anonymous wrote:So where did everyone get into?

We’re already at Dalton, but my sibling’s kid is going to Trinity (legacy, though), and two of my friend’s are also going to dalton. My cousin’s daughter will be going to spence (legacy, too). Everyone’s pretty happy, but my sibling wants to move their child somewhere else for high school.

*friends’ children…

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Anonymous wrote:So where did everyone get into?

We’re already at Dalton, but my sibling’s kid is going to Trinity (legacy, though), and two of my friend’s are also going to dalton. My cousin’s daughter will be going to spence (legacy, too). Everyone’s pretty happy, but my sibling wants to move their child somewhere else for high school.

Most be nice. If you don’t mind me asking what line of work did you all go into. Between you (Dalton?), the Trinity and Spence grad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So where did everyone get into?

We’re already at Dalton, but my sibling’s kid is going to Trinity (legacy, though), and two of my friend’s are also going to dalton. My cousin’s daughter will be going to spence (legacy, too). Everyone’s pretty happy, but my sibling wants to move their child somewhere else for high school.

Most be nice. If you don’t mind me asking what line of work did you all go into. Between you (Dalton?), the Trinity and Spence grad.

The way you get to think about and approach the ongoing school process when you’re potentially a quadruple legacy (I’ve met parents where the mom went Brearley->Trinity and the dad went St B->HM) is really something that lives rent free in my head.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So where did everyone get into?

We’re already at Dalton, but my sibling’s kid is going to Trinity (legacy, though), and two of my friend’s are also going to dalton. My cousin’s daughter will be going to spence (legacy, too). Everyone’s pretty happy, but my sibling wants to move their child somewhere else for high school.

Most be nice. If you don’t mind me asking what line of work did you all go into. Between you (Dalton?), the Trinity and Spence grad.

Until recently, I worked in media/entertainment, my sibling is a journalist, one of my friends is a cardiologist, the other is in the arts (she's a patron, extremely wealthy). My cousin a surgeon.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So where did everyone get into?

We’re already at Dalton, but my sibling’s kid is going to Trinity (legacy, though), and two of my friend’s are also going to dalton. My cousin’s daughter will be going to spence (legacy, too). Everyone’s pretty happy, but my sibling wants to move their child somewhere else for high school.

Most be nice. If you don’t mind me asking what line of work did you all go into. Between you (Dalton?), the Trinity and Spence grad.

Until recently, I worked in media/entertainment, my sibling is a journalist, one of my friends is a cardiologist, the other is in the arts (she's a patron, extremely wealthy). My cousin a surgeon.

Same poster here: My sibling and I went to trinity. I didn’t go to dalton.

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First time posting here - my 8th grade daughter from a K-8 school is nervously waiting for her high school offers. She is strong academically but not a superstar, and we don't have sibling/legacy advantages, so not sure she can get into a TT school. Any thoughts or considerations on a 2T school versus a good SHSAT school academically and socially?

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Anonymous wrote:First time posting here - my 8th grade daughter from a K-8 school is nervously waiting for her high school offers. She is strong academically but not a superstar, and we don't have sibling/legacy advantages, so not sure she can get into a TT school. Any thoughts or considerations on a 2T school versus a good SHSAT school academically and socially?

are you coming from a public or private K-8? If the latter, a large SHSAT school would be a very considerable adjustment socially (and likely academically as well).

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Thanks, my daughter is at a private K8 now but was at public school until grade 5. Agree that a large SHS school could be considerable adjustment, but going to a 2T school (still needs to fit in with returning students and possibly paying 70k+ a year) just does not sound worth it...

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks, my daughter is at a private K8 now but was at public school until grade 5. Agree that a large SHS school could be considerable adjustment, but going to a 2T school (still needs to fit in with returning students and possibly paying 70k+ a year) just does not sound worth it...

If your daughter is strongly into STEM, probably not (assuming top SHS offer), since even out of the TT schools only a couple offer a comparable level of science education. If she is a humanities person, it's more nuanced, depends on which "2T", etc. Revisit days should be helpful!

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks, my daughter is at a private K8 now but was at public school until grade 5. Agree that a large SHS school could be considerable adjustment, but going to a 2T school (still needs to fit in with returning students and possibly paying 70k+ a year) just does not sound worth it...

Different poster. Academically, is she more into humanities or STEM? In general I would say that a good SHSAT school is likely to be stronger than a 2T private school in math/science, but the private school might do a better job with English/history, in part because smaller class sizes make it easier to do more graded writing / have more meaningful discussions / etc and those kids will have been doing that throughout middle school. (for extracurriculars you can fill in gaps for a lot less than $70k/year)

If she was at public through grade 5 - and I guess pre-class-size-law? - then I don't think a SHSAT school would too far be outside of her comfort zone socially; kids don't magically get less well-behaved after 3 years of public middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks, my daughter is at a private K8 now but was at public school until grade 5. Agree that a large SHS school could be considerable adjustment, but going to a 2T school (still needs to fit in with returning students and possibly paying 70k+ a year) just does not sound worth it...

If your daughter is strongly into STEM, probably not (assuming top SHS offer), since even out of the TT schools only a couple offer a comparable level of science education. If she is a humanities person, it's more nuanced, depends on which "2T", etc. Revisit days should be helpful!

Did you u apply to any all girls schools? Sacred Heart and Nightingale are only slightly less rigorous than Brearley/Spence/Chapin and much easier to get into. I know families that have gotten in even when applying in the spring for the following year…those are both solid options.