Where are all the Ivy admits coming from you wonder? Dalton NYC 2023 Matriculations

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Clearly Dalton is an Ivy feeder. DMV privates may be having a tough year with matriculations to top 20 schools/Ivies, but NYC prep schools seem to be doing just fine and claiming a good percentage of the spots. I thought the Ivies and top 20s were trying to diversify were their admits come from? Instead it looks like NYC prep schools get the most. It's an embarrassment of riches, when looking at this list. No school in the DMV this year can compare. 🙄

? How does the "embarrassment of riches" not apply to the top privates in the DC area.

Not for matriculations this year. Not compared to this.

ok, but that's a bit one deaf when DC private school parents complain about grade inflation in public schools and how it impacts DC area private school kids college admissions.

That argument still holds. This is a different discussion.

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I live in NYC and grew up in DC. The wealth and connections are generally on a different scale. These are billionaire, private jet, private island type families. They are masters of industry who have Ivy board members on speed dial. They basically own Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

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One Hispanic last name on that list.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC and grew up in DC. The wealth and connections are generally on a different scale. These are billionaire, private jet, private island type families. They are masters of industry who have Ivy board members on speed dial. They basically own Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

+1 correct

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Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC and grew up in DC. The wealth and connections are generally on a different scale. These are billionaire, private jet, private island type families. They are masters of industry who have Ivy board members on speed dial. They basically own Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

Exactly! The Ivies and top schools are all talk and full of it.

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Murdoch’s DD’s (who are in their early 20s now) went to one of these schools

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Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC and grew up in DC. The wealth and connections are generally on a different scale. These are billionaire, private jet, private island type families. They are masters of industry who have Ivy board members on speed dial. They basically own Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

Exactly! The Ivies and top schools are all talk and full of it.

No, the concept is introduce *some* diverse students who will then have access to these elite peers and the education they've always been able to secure (and vice versa, maybe). Eliminate that original group and all is for naught.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC and grew up in DC. The wealth and connections are generally on a different scale. These are billionaire, private jet, private island type families. They are masters of industry who have Ivy board members on speed dial. They basically own Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

Exactly! The Ivies and top schools are all talk and full of it.

No, the concept is introduce *some* diverse students who will then have access to these elite peers and the education they've always been able to secure (and vice versa, maybe). Eliminate that original group and all is for naught.

Many of the "diverse" peers at Ivies are just normal kids these high schools as well. Either well-off and connected URM families or kids that got to the private school through Prep for Prep or similar. It's a crummy system. I have no idea why so many people are driven to defend it.

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All those privileged Dalton grads going to Wesleyan?? Don't they know it's in decline?

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Anonymous wrote:The parent population at top NYC privates is in an entirely different league than DC’s.

I’m not sure exactly where the kids of Katie Holmes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emily Blunt (if they’re back in NYC now), Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey etc go to school in NYC, but presumably top NYC privates. And I bet they’re far from the wealthiest parents of kids at those schools when you take into account NYC finance parents. Unlike DC privates that have a lot of civil servants making $180k/year.

Right, of course. But what about the Ivies and top schools taking all these kids? They claim to be interested in expanding their reach and diversifying, but this list proves that's all talk. They really want wealthy NYC elite.

Now you know how us masses in public schools with no hook feels.

Eh, my kid is here. NYC, Public, I don't know of a single legacy, most pretty poor, about 125 kids in the class. Most acceptances not listed -- I know of at least 2 into Harvard. 5 MIT in early round alone.

https://www.instagram.com/hsmse2023colleges/

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Anonymous wrote:All those privileged Dalton grads going to Wesleyan?? Don't they know it's in decline?

These kids all have jobs at dad’s fund waiting for them after graduating.

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Anonymous wrote:The parent population at top NYC privates is in an entirely different league than DC’s.

I’m not sure exactly where the kids of Katie Holmes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emily Blunt (if they’re back in NYC now), Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey etc go to school in NYC, but presumably top NYC privates. And I bet they’re far from the wealthiest parents of kids at those schools when you take into account NYC finance parents. Unlike DC privates that have a lot of civil servants making $180k/year.

Right, of course. But what about the Ivies and top schools taking all these kids? They claim to be interested in expanding their reach and diversifying, but this list proves that's all talk. They really want wealthy NYC elite.

Now you know how us masses in public schools with no hook feels.

Eh, my kid is here. NYC, Public, I don't know of a single legacy, most pretty poor, about 125 kids in the class. Most acceptances not listed -- I know of at least 2 into Harvard. 5 MIT in early round alone.

https://www.instagram.com/hsmse2023colleges/

This is a magnet school.

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Hunter is a public, magnet school, not really relevant to this conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:The parent population at top NYC privates is in an entirely different league than DC’s.

I’m not sure exactly where the kids of Katie Holmes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emily Blunt (if they’re back in NYC now), Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey etc go to school in NYC, but presumably top NYC privates. And I bet they’re far from the wealthiest parents of kids at those schools when you take into account NYC finance parents. Unlike DC privates that have a lot of civil servants making $180k/year.

Right, of course. But what about the Ivies and top schools taking all these kids? They claim to be interested in expanding their reach and diversifying, but this list proves that's all talk. They really want wealthy NYC elite.

Now you know how us masses in public schools with no hook feels.

Eh, my kid is here. NYC, Public, I don't know of a single legacy, most pretty poor, about 125 kids in the class. Most acceptances not listed -- I know of at least 2 into Harvard. 5 MIT in early round alone.

https://www.instagram.com/hsmse2023colleges/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The parent population at top NYC privates is in an entirely different league than DC’s.

I’m not sure exactly where the kids of Katie Holmes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emily Blunt (if they’re back in NYC now), Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey etc go to school in NYC, but presumably top NYC privates. And I bet they’re far from the wealthiest parents of kids at those schools when you take into account NYC finance parents. Unlike DC privates that have a lot of civil servants making $180k/year.

Right, of course. But what about the Ivies and top schools taking all these kids? They claim to be interested in expanding their reach and diversifying, but this list proves that's all talk. They really want wealthy NYC elite.

Now you know how us masses in public schools with no hook feels.

Eh, my kid is here. NYC, Public, I don't know of a single legacy, most pretty poor, about 125 kids in the class. Most acceptances not listed -- I know of at least 2 into Harvard. 5 MIT in early round alone.

https://www.instagram.com/hsmse2023colleges/

Seeing a couple OOS publics on there that do not give FA or merit to OOS…hope these kids & their families aren’t about to drown themselves up to their eyeballs in debt.

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I went to a second-tier NYC private and was unhooked but...

IMO Dalton and Trinity are in a different league because every kid is hooked. They are either the child of a billionaire, or the kid is extremely talented (I knew a couple of kids in my grade who attended Dalton while basically working as professional actors or writers, similar to Professional Children's School) or they were exceptional URM candidates from Prep for Prep.