College placements

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is also going through some *serious* financial problems right now and the idea of piling on more rich prep school kids is probably pretty appealing.

Chicago's finances are fine. Aa2 Stable from Moody's. I trust them a lot more than the DCUM brain trust.

[Anonymous]

They reduced their deficit but they did so by reducing spending and increasing revenue, "accepting a bunch of Horace Mann kids with solid gold sticks up their keisters" is a great way to do the latter.

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Chicago alum here. It has been like that for a while. Tons of NY prep school kids and boarding school kids in my class. Basically all were full pay (and the tuition used to be higher than other schools due to the lack of endowment). It was an amazing education. But the kids who went for free (of which there were many) were generally orders of magnitude smarter and more diligent than the full pay kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

Uchicago admits so many kids from Dalton it almost seems like a safety.

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

I mean, Chicago is better than most of the non-HYP Ivies, no?

no

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to Brearley college counseling?

Great college counsellor left. Last year 20 girls left to horace man. Families are freaking out

20 to hm????

This seems completely made up. Horace Mann’s college placements have really faltered in the last few years

It is completely made up.

[Anonymous]

I remember at the HM tour this year, our tour guide had already gotten accepted into UChicago via that Early program (this was well prior to December). Agree that they are sending a ton to Chicago and not as much as you would expect to Ivy (certainly not similar to years past- some mom on Facebook was saying 18 kids went to Harvard her year, but this was back in the 1990s glory days and she hadn’t realized it changed).

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

I mean, Chicago is better than most of the non-HYP Ivies, no?

no

Many people will take Chicago (or Duke for this matter) over Brown or Cornell.

[Anonymous]

Brearley's early decision so far this year (a few are likely missing as this is about a month old now):

Harvard 5, Yale 3, Princeton 2, Penn 2, Brown 2, Cornell 2, Columbia 1, Chicago 3, Duke 1, Williams 1, Swarthmore 1, Oberlin 1, NYU 1, Wesleyan 1

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all these schools seem to send to Ivy Leagues but once in few years to MIT but public specialized schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech send 5-6 each year to MIT and Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:all these schools seem to send to Ivy Leagues but once in few years to MIT but public specialized schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech send 5-6 each year to MIT and Stanford.

Right, most of these privates are not geared toward MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brearley's early decision so far this year (a few are likely missing as this is about a month old now):

Harvard 5, Yale 3, Princeton 2, Penn 2, Brown 2, Cornell 2, Columbia 1, Chicago 3, Duke 1, Williams 1, Swarthmore 1, Oberlin 1, NYU 1, Wesleyan 1

Very impressive! The idea that they are slipping is insane. It’s weird how many people on this forum have this bizarre agenda to smear the school’s reputation. Spence, Chapin, and yes, Brearley are all great schools. As are the many others in the city. None are perfect and year to year you’ll have kids with different interests and priorities which will result in variation in college placements but by and large these stats are super strong for a school the size of Brearley

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But also let’s take into account out of 5 going to Harvard regardless of which school 2 or 3 are reserved for big donors, board kids etc whether it’s Spence or Brearley. Chapin is doing well this year if you mean two posted to Harvard but both are big big generational kids.

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Anonymous wrote:But also let’s take into account out of 5 going to Harvard regardless of which school 2 or 3 are reserved for big donors, board kids etc whether it’s Spence or Brearley. Chapin is doing well this year if you mean two posted to Harvard but both are big big generational kids.

Yes, there are a lot of rich kids and legacy kids in NYC. And they go to all the private schools and even the publics in NYC. Yet some of the privates do better with college matriculation than others.

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

Why do you think that is?

They don’t want to cause stress among the students still waiting? As far as I can tell the school is very focused on reducing one up-manship. People need to get a grip

I mean— what would be the reason why HM’s matriculation has faltered recently (presuming that that’s true - which - how do people know this?) ? There hasn’t been a big turnover in counselor or teacher staff, and it seems that the admissions are just as selective as they ever were (and same people for a bunch of years). What gives?