Best private schools in NYC?

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Thanks for offering! What do you think helped your child stand out? Were you coming from a known preschool?

Our preschool is a 'known preschool' but one that had a LOT of siblings this year, so the preview early on was don't get your hopes up. On the kid, based on our experience, you want to work with your kid on Stanford-Binet like things- spatial relationships, reasoning, cause-effect. Dalton likes that stuff and the preschools here dont teach any of it, which is mind-boggling. If your kid talks a lot and is engaging, that helps too, but you can't create that out of nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the TT/2T schools in 2024?

I dont think they've changed much over time
TT: Collegiate, Brearley, Spence, Chapin, Horace Mann, Trinity, Dalton, Riverdale
2T: Sacred Heart, Nightingale, Ethical Culture/Fieldston, St Ann's

St Bernards (boys school) would be here but it ends at 8th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Thanks for offering! What do you think helped your child stand out? Were you coming from a known preschool?

Our preschool is a 'known preschool' but one that had a LOT of siblings this year, so the preview early on was don't get your hopes up. On the kid, based on our experience, you want to work with your kid on Stanford-Binet like things- spatial relationships, reasoning, cause-effect. Dalton likes that stuff and the preschools here dont teach any of it, which is mind-boggling. If your kid talks a lot and is engaging, that helps too, but you can't create that out of nothing.

Getting a consultant, do some prep. All of them are doing it. All of them are little genius. Not everyone got in. If you are unconnected and not a URM, your chance is really fat.

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I dont think there are a lot of consultants being used for K applications. We were unconnected and arent URM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are the TT/2T schools in 2024?

I dont think they've changed much over time
TT: Collegiate, Brearley, Spence, Chapin, Horace Mann, Trinity, Dalton, Riverdale
2T: Sacred Heart, Nightingale, Ethical Culture/Fieldston, St Ann's

St Bernards (boys school) would be here but it ends at 8th.

2T: Poly Prep, Packer, Browning, Avenues, Friends Seminary, Grace Church
2.5T: Columbia Grammar

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Thanks for offering! What do you think helped your child stand out? Were you coming from a known preschool?

Our preschool is a 'known preschool' but one that had a LOT of siblings this year, so the preview early on was don't get your hopes up. On the kid, based on our experience, you want to work with your kid on Stanford-Binet like things- spatial relationships, reasoning, cause-effect. Dalton likes that stuff and the preschools here dont teach any of it, which is mind-boggling. If your kid talks a lot and is engaging, that helps too, but you can't create that out of nothing.

Thanks! How about the preschool report- is that very important? Did your preschool director help push for your child?

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Thanks! How about the preschool report- is that very important? Did your preschool director help push for your child?

At Dalton all that matters is how your kid does in the evaluation. Of course the presch report needs to broadly match and not have red flags but they usually are in the same general direction.

On the first point, we sent two kids through K admissions- Babby was dramatically different on the parent interview one vs the other and the difference was how kid did so one really piqued her interest.

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2T: Poly Prep, Packer, Browning, Avenues, Friends Seminary, Grace Church
2.5T: Columbia Grammar

You need to add a number to both of these- 3T/3.5T. I would only consider Packer as potential 2T. Browning cant even fill its class.

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2T: Poly Prep, Packer, Browning, Avenues, Friends Seminary, Grace Church
2.5T: Columbia Grammar

You need to add a number to both of these- 3T/3.5T. I would only consider Packer as potential 2T. Browning cant even fill its class.

Really? Even Friends Seminary is a 3T? What else would you consider a 2T

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2T: Poly Prep, Packer, Browning, Avenues, Friends Seminary, Grace Church
2.5T: Columbia Grammar

You need to add a number to both of these- 3T/3.5T. I would only consider Packer as potential 2T. Browning cant even fill its class.

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Really? Even Friends Seminary is a 3T? What else would you consider a 2T?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Thanks! How about the preschool report- is that very important? Did your preschool director help push for your child?

At Dalton all that matters is how your kid does in the evaluation. Of course the presch report needs to broadly match and not have red flags but they usually are in the same general direction.

On the first point, we sent two kids through K admissions- Babby was dramatically different on the parent interview one vs the other and the difference was how kid did so one really piqued her interest.

Did both your kids get into dalton? I heard they don’t favor siblings as much as other schools.

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2T: Poly Prep, Packer, Browning, Avenues, Friends Seminary, Grace Church
2.5T: Columbia Grammar

You need to add a number to both of these- 3T/3.5T. I would only consider Packer as potential 2T. Browning cant even fill its class.

So you only consider Packer a 2t? And Poly Prep, Browning, Avenues, Friends and Grace Church 3t?

I don’t know too much about Browning, TBH but I think the other 2ts on this list are solid schools.

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Really? Even Friends Seminary is a 3T? What else would you consider a 2T

For an objective ranking of the schools you can take a look at the target ISEE scores needed for each school.

Link: https://iseepracticetest.com/target-scores/#New%20York

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Anonymous wrote:
Really? Even Friends Seminary is a 3T? What else would you consider a 2T

For an objective ranking of the schools you can take a look at the target ISEE scores needed for each school.

Link: https://iseepracticetest.com/target-scores/#New%20York

According to the ISEE score, the ranking is:

TT
Trinity 96
Dalton 96
Brearley 96
Horace Mann 96
Collegiate 92
Spence 92

2T
Riverdale 89
Chapin 84
Avenues 80
Columbia Grammar 80
Friends Seminary 80
Poly Prep 80
Packer 80
Fieldston 80
St Ann's Do not consider test score

3T
Sacred Heart 72
Nightingale 72
Grace Church 72
Browning 67

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Really? Even Friends Seminary is a 3T? What else would you consider a 2T

For an objective ranking of the schools you can take a look at the target ISEE scores needed for each school.

Link: https://iseepracticetest.com/target-scores/#New%20York

According to the ISEE score, the ranking is:

TT
Trinity 96
Dalton 96
Brearley 96
Horace Mann 96
Collegiate 92
Spence 92

2T
Riverdale 89
Chapin 84
Avenues 80
Columbia Grammar 80
Friends Seminary 80
Poly Prep 80
Packer 80
Fieldston 80
St Ann's Do not consider test score

3T
Sacred Heart 72
Nightingale 72
Grace Church 72
Browning 67

Avenues and Poly Prep do not consider the ISEE. Most families consider Riverdale and Chapin in the Top Tier due to exmissions that are very similar to those top schools and a healthy emphasis on educating all facets of the student. Niche is also a good resource. According to Niche, Riverdale and Chapin are leading the pack.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-private-high-schools/s/new-york/