Best private schools in NYC?

[Anonymous]

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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.

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

[Anonymous]

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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.

[Anonymous]

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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

[Anonymous]

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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

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/

[Anonymous]

Those ISEE stats are self-reported and not from the schools themselves so Test Innovators is not an objective source. I would trust Niche. Chapin and Riverdale have long been considered top tier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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/

Sadly, many TT T2 schools are test optional or do not consider ISEE any more.

For example, Chapin refuses to consider ISEE ("Please do not send scores to the Admissions Office as it will not be included in the applicant file."). Riverdale similarly adopts holistic review.

Avenues is test optional, but for ORM it's never optional.

PolyPrep actually requires ISEE, not optional ("Testing is required for admission into all Upper School grades.").

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those ISEE stats are self-reported and not from the schools themselves so Test Innovators is not an objective source. I would trust Niche. Chapin and Riverdale have long been considered top tier.

Niche is wild. It would rank Lycee Francais #6. St Ann's #23. Basis? What is basis? ranked #14.

[Anonymous]

Niche’s top ten is about right. The tip five move around a bunch but the top ten are the usual suspects.

[Anonymous]

I think the only meaningful ranking is polarislist ranking.

You could admit ISEE low score kids, it don't matter as long as the school sends these kids to the moon.

https://polarislist.com/best-private-high-schools-in-new-york-city-new-york

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the only meaningful ranking is polarislist ranking.

You could admit ISEE low score kids, it don't matter as long as the school sends these kids to the moon.

https://polarislist.com/best-private-high-schools-in-new-york-city-new-york

Is there a post-covid polarislist ranking available? The link provided dates 2020.

[Anonymous]

Chapin has really slipped- it showed up in SAT scores about ten yrs ago and now the exmissions have been softening noticeably.

[Anonymous]

Chapin sent one less student than Spence according to Polaris. Additionally, the girls schools’ class size is tiny compared to Horace Mann/Riverdale/Dalton. Brearley’s number is that more impressive. Spence and Chapin sent about 30% of its class as opposed to Horace Mann’s 15%. This could be an ISEE question…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chapin sent one less student than Spence according to Polaris. Additionally, the girls schools’ class size is tiny compared to Horace Mann/Riverdale/Dalton. Brearley’s number is that more impressive. Spence and Chapin sent about 30% of its class as opposed to Horace Mann’s 15%. This could be an ISEE question…

Sorry Horace Mann’s percentage is about 25%!!!! Still Spence and Chapin’s percentage is higher…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chapin sent one less student than Spence according to Polaris. Additionally, the girls schools’ class size is tiny compared to Horace Mann/Riverdale/Dalton. Brearley’s number is that more impressive. Spence and Chapin sent about 30% of its class as opposed to Horace Mann’s 15%. This could be an ISEE question…

Your numbers… are way way off
Polaris numbers are three year accumulated
I don’t know what Chapin’s class size. Typically around 100.