Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

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Anonymous wrote:I work in finance and most of my colleagues have got their kids in "TT" schools (I don't but it's a different story). The general profile of Brearley/Spence/Dalton parents is a bit different from HM's. B/S/D parents in my circle are primarily HYP legacies. HM parents are often immigrants or NYC "transplants" who are equally successful and well-off but who care less about HYP brand. They are fine with their kids ED'ing Chicago and minimizing stress associated with college applications.

I know quite a few immigrants (from India, especially) at Dalton, who went to Ivies for grad school where legacy doesn't really count. All quite financially successful. I don't think Dalton cares as much about Ivy legacies.

At Dalton K parent interview this year, we were specifically asked which colleges we attended. Same happened to almost all parents who interviewed at Dalton this year. We heard they like Harvard parents the most.

Strange, during our interview, we weren’t asked and our kid’s at dalton now. I don’t think they care as much as people say.

You have to fill this out as part of the application anyway so they don't need to ask; they already know and care very much. At these schools, it manifests more in who from admissions interviews you. We are unconnected and would often meet with an associate director or parent proxy interviewer, but came to notice that our parent friends who were double Ivy legacies themselves - albeit kids at same preschool - always interviewed with the head of admissions. Not true across the board, but certainly at the TTs that was the case.

We’re double ivy legacy (one of us 2x) w/ further legacy also at trinity, exeter, and spence. our interview at dalton wasn’t with the head of admissions, nor were we asked any questions about our schooling. I really wish people would stop spreading nonsense rumors and pretending like they have insider information or know something that others don’t. It’s just exhausting how much credit people give to admissions officers.

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Anonymous wrote:Regis is impressive, considering there are fewer legacies there than at other privates.

I am not sure of this, but I have always gotten the sense that Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other. Percentages likely vary but you get my point. It is a very impressive school and ironic that it is free and Jewish schools are all a fortune (I'm Jewish).

This is incorrect. Legacy/siblings get zero preference to Regis. It is HSPT, grades, recommendations, interview, and you have to be Catholic. That is all. That is what makes it the unique and special place that it is and has been for over a hundred years.

I assumed she meant ivy or top college legacies (not Regis legacies) because we were talking about hooks for colleges.

Saying, "Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other." implies that the student population is made up of these numbers, and I was pointing out that this is incorrect. Regis exists outside of the normal NYC private school admissions machine. They do not admit anyone to "pay the bills." Both of my grandfathers went there, and I have many friends who went there, and some of my other friends have been lucky enough to win the lottery ticket that is admission there for their sons. We literally call it the golden ticket for a reason.

I guarantee you there are plenty of kids who got into Regis due to connections and politics. Including Regis legacies. This holier than thou attitude is insulting. It is basically like college - unhooked, upper middle class white kids have less of a chance of getting in.

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Anonymous wrote:Regis is impressive, considering there are fewer legacies there than at other privates.

I am not sure of this, but I have always gotten the sense that Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other. Percentages likely vary but you get my point. It is a very impressive school and ironic that it is free and Jewish schools are all a fortune (I'm Jewish).

This is incorrect. Legacy/siblings get zero preference to Regis. It is HSPT, grades, recommendations, interview, and you have to be Catholic. That is all. That is what makes it the unique and special place that it is and has been for over a hundred years.

I assumed she meant ivy or top college legacies (not Regis legacies) because we were talking about hooks for colleges.

Saying, "Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other." implies that the student population is made up of these numbers, and I was pointing out that this is incorrect. Regis exists outside of the normal NYC private school admissions machine. They do not admit anyone to "pay the bills." Both of my grandfathers went there, and I have many friends who went there, and some of my other friends have been lucky enough to win the lottery ticket that is admission there for their sons. We literally call it the golden ticket for a reason.

I guarantee you there are plenty of kids who got into Regis due to connections and politics. Including Regis legacies. This holier than thou attitude is insulting. It is basically like college - unhooked, upper middle class white kids have less of a chance of getting in.

You obviously know nothing about Regis. It’s a very middle class school with a ton of kids commuting in from the outer boroughs and suburbs. I don’t think you can really game Regis admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:Regis is impressive, considering there are fewer legacies there than at other privates.

I am not sure of this, but I have always gotten the sense that Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other. Percentages likely vary but you get my point. It is a very impressive school and ironic that it is free and Jewish schools are all a fortune (I'm Jewish).

This is incorrect. Legacy/siblings get zero preference to Regis. It is HSPT, grades, recommendations, interview, and you have to be Catholic. That is all. That is what makes it the unique and special place that it is and has been for over a hundred years.

I assumed she meant ivy or top college legacies (not Regis legacies) because we were talking about hooks for colleges.

Saying, "Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other." implies that the student population is made up of these numbers, and I was pointing out that this is incorrect. Regis exists outside of the normal NYC private school admissions machine. They do not admit anyone to "pay the bills." Both of my grandfathers went there, and I have many friends who went there, and some of my other friends have been lucky enough to win the lottery ticket that is admission there for their sons. We literally call it the golden ticket for a reason.

I guarantee you there are plenty of kids who got into Regis due to connections and politics. Including Regis legacies. This holier than thou attitude is insulting. It is basically like college - unhooked, upper middle class white kids have less of a chance of getting in.

You obviously know nothing about Regis. It’s a very middle class school with a ton of kids commuting in from the outer boroughs and suburbs. I don’t think you can really game Regis admissions.

lol, the naïveté is astounding. The amount of corruption in the churches is off the charts, the notion a highly competitive HS is immune is preposterous.

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Anonymous wrote:All the K-12 applications that we filled out asked where we, as in the parents, went to college. The topic never came up during any of our parent interviews (including at Dalton, where our kids now attend), but the schools clearly know where we went to college and grad school. Not ivies FWIW.

This!

I wasn’t asked in any parent interview where I went to school or where my husband went to school. But I know they know because we fill that info out on the application.

FWIW I have my Masters (not Ivy) and I’m a transplant, and my husband is an immigrant. Our child will attend K in one of the B/C/S schools this Fall.

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Anonymous wrote:Very interesting seeing the results for different schools as regular decisions come in. So far the most impressive seems to be Riverdale with many of the traditional TT's just starting to publish results or are so far a bit underwhelming...

Link to Riverdale page: https://www.instagram.com/riv26seniors/

i dont understand why this group keeps refusing to believe what every piece of data is telling us - that riverdale is the best one.

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B/S and eventually Dalton will be better than Riverdale if you give more weight to HYP than to other T20.

However, once you look at HYP admission stats, you quickly conclude that unless you know % of legacies in each school, you cannot really draw conclusions from HYP college placements. For instance, these are the latest numbers available for Harvard and you can see legacies represent a sizable % in the admissions pool. There is no indication things have changed since 2023:

https://features.thecrimson.com/2023/freshman-survey/makeup/

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Anonymous wrote:All the K-12 applications that we filled out asked where we, as in the parents, went to college. The topic never came up during any of our parent interviews (including at Dalton, where our kids now attend), but the schools clearly know where we went to college and grad school. Not ivies FWIW.

This!

I wasn’t asked in any parent interview where I went to school or where my husband went to school. But I know they know because we fill that info out on the application.

FWIW I have my Masters (not Ivy) and I’m a transplant, and my husband is an immigrant. Our child will attend K in one of the B/C/S schools this Fall.

B/C/S is not equal to B/S. HYP matriculations in Chapin are lower than in either Brearley or Spence.

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Anonymous wrote:Very interesting seeing the results for different schools as regular decisions come in. So far the most impressive seems to be Riverdale with many of the traditional TT's just starting to publish results or are so far a bit underwhelming...

Link to Riverdale page: https://www.instagram.com/riv26seniors/

i dont understand why this group keeps refusing to believe what every piece of data is telling us - that riverdale is the best one.

Brearley blows Riverdale out of the water. And Spence often does as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Very interesting seeing the results for different schools as regular decisions come in. So far the most impressive seems to be Riverdale with many of the traditional TT's just starting to publish results or are so far a bit underwhelming...

Link to Riverdale page: https://www.instagram.com/riv26seniors/

i dont understand why this group keeps refusing to believe what every piece of data is telling us - that riverdale is the best one.

Brearley blows Riverdale out of the water. And Spence often does as well.

Brearley girls blow Riverdale boys? Really?

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I couldn’t figure our out a way in which choosing a particular school for my kid would put me in a position to donate 15 mil to my university of choice or suddenly turn us into a FGLI URM family, so kinda went by the vibe instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Regis is impressive, considering there are fewer legacies there than at other privates.

I am not sure of this, but I have always gotten the sense that Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other. Percentages likely vary but you get my point. It is a very impressive school and ironic that it is free and Jewish schools are all a fortune (I'm Jewish).

This is incorrect. Legacy/siblings get zero preference to Regis. It is HSPT, grades, recommendations, interview, and you have to be Catholic. That is all. That is what makes it the unique and special place that it is and has been for over a hundred years.

I assumed she meant ivy or top college legacies (not Regis legacies) because we were talking about hooks for colleges.

Saying, "Regis is 40% FGLI to fulfill its mission, 40% rich kids/legacies to pay the bills, then 20% other." implies that the student population is made up of these numbers, and I was pointing out that this is incorrect. Regis exists outside of the normal NYC private school admissions machine. They do not admit anyone to "pay the bills." Both of my grandfathers went there, and I have many friends who went there, and some of my other friends have been lucky enough to win the lottery ticket that is admission there for their sons. We literally call it the golden ticket for a reason.

I guarantee you there are plenty of kids who got into Regis due to connections and politics. Including Regis legacies. This holier than thou attitude is insulting. It is basically like college - unhooked, upper middle class white kids have less of a chance of getting in.

You obviously know nothing about Regis. It’s a very middle class school with a ton of kids commuting in from the outer boroughs and suburbs. I don’t think you can really game Regis admissions.

you have to have all As in middle school and make the HSPT cut. But then I'm sure there's wiggle room. Although lots of siblings and legacy kids dont get in. most don't

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Dalton has 10 to harvard. many hooked but still. not all posted yet

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t figure our out a way in which choosing a particular school for my kid would put me in a position to donate 15 mil to my university of choice or suddenly turn us into a FGLI URM family, so kinda went by the vibe instead.

lol, that’s what we’re doing too.

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Anonymous wrote:Dalton has 10 to harvard. many hooked but still. not all posted yet

Are you a current parent?