Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

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Anonymous wrote:This probably depends on what field the [unhooked] kids are going into. Brearley is still very strong in the humanities, and a graduate is guaranteed to have a level of verbal polish (and almost guaranteed to have a liberal lean). Theater is mandatory for a reason. And for STEM fields, girls with high level of aptitude are desirable, so 1 or 2 top math girls have reasonably good prospects (similarly to other top privates and publics). At least that's my rough extrapolation from the few happy outcomes I am familiar with.

Almost the entire grade is filled with happy outcomes, unless you mean happy outcomes only with respect to HYP. Then it's only about 20% of the class that has happy outcomes in that narrow sense.

The conversation is about HYP and some posters delusion that B is a genius factory, so much so that it leaves other TTs in the dust. Occam’s razor says some of them are super rich and can buy spots

I haven't seen anyone say Brearley leaves other TTs in the dust. If you can point out those posts I would be interested to read them. I've only seen posters say TTs dwarf non-TTs in college successes, and then some poster (maybe you?) say it was all due to rich parents or squash. I've gone through the thread and the only post I seeing comparing Brearley to another school specifically was one saying Brearley and Spence outcomes blow Riverdale out of the water. Because Riverdale is not a TT, I don't think that supports your assertion either.

Not PP, but as long as we are only going by HYPS acceptances from the instagram pages, Brearley *is* seemingly much more impressive than HM/Trinity, which in turn are much closer to e.g. Fieldston/Riverdale.

HYPS seems just to be a silly barometer of what is doing well but from what i see Brearley has a very high percent of girls who go there. but more importantly the t25 (or whatever broader school metric you want to use) shows the vast percent of B kids go to these great schools.

i hear it very stressful though that might be anecdotal

I hear that too (for high school), but then you hear that about Trinity, HM, etc. No doubt, great matriculations at Brearley, although we should keep in mind that their page currently has less than half of the seniors on it.

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Anonymous wrote:This probably depends on what field the [unhooked] kids are going into. Brearley is still very strong in the humanities, and a graduate is guaranteed to have a level of verbal polish (and almost guaranteed to have a liberal lean). Theater is mandatory for a reason. And for STEM fields, girls with high level of aptitude are desirable, so 1 or 2 top math girls have reasonably good prospects (similarly to other top privates and publics). At least that's my rough extrapolation from the few happy outcomes I am familiar with.

Almost the entire grade is filled with happy outcomes, unless you mean happy outcomes only with respect to HYP. Then it's only about 20% of the class that has happy outcomes in that narrow sense.

The conversation is about HYP and some posters delusion that B is a genius factory, so much so that it leaves other TTs in the dust. Occam’s razor says some of them are super rich and can buy spots

I haven't seen anyone say Brearley leaves other TTs in the dust. If you can point out those posts I would be interested to read them. I've only seen posters say TTs dwarf non-TTs in college successes, and then some poster (maybe you?) say it was all due to rich parents or squash. I've gone through the thread and the only post I seeing comparing Brearley to another school specifically was one saying Brearley and Spence outcomes blow Riverdale out of the water. Because Riverdale is not a TT, I don't think that supports your assertion either.

Not PP, but as long as we are only going by HYPS acceptances from the instagram pages, Brearley *is* seemingly much more impressive than HM/Trinity, which in turn are much closer to e.g. Fieldston/Riverdale.

OMG. Stop with this nonsense. It's no way to rate schools or make choices about your child's education.

Any of these schools will provide your children with fantastic experiences if the fit works for them. And there are many colleges beyond the four you've decided "we" should only be considering when measuring "college successes."

I am assuming you are replying to me (the PP here) -- I did not "decide" anything, not am I choosing anything for my children based on matriculations to those schools. I am simply pointing out a statistical pattern that is relevant to the discussion at hand and that for whatever reason has served as a possible metric; it's up to you to decide whether it has any relevance to your own life.

It has no relevance in anyone's life.

What percentage of students admitted full pay to both Harvard and Cornell choose the latter?

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Anonymous wrote:This probably depends on what field the [unhooked] kids are going into. Brearley is still very strong in the humanities, and a graduate is guaranteed to have a level of verbal polish (and almost guaranteed to have a liberal lean). Theater is mandatory for a reason. And for STEM fields, girls with high level of aptitude are desirable, so 1 or 2 top math girls have reasonably good prospects (similarly to other top privates and publics). At least that's my rough extrapolation from the few happy outcomes I am familiar with.

Almost the entire grade is filled with happy outcomes, unless you mean happy outcomes only with respect to HYP. Then it's only about 20% of the class that has happy outcomes in that narrow sense.

The conversation is about HYP and some posters delusion that B is a genius factory, so much so that it leaves other TTs in the dust. Occam’s razor says some of them are super rich and can buy spots

I haven't seen anyone say Brearley leaves other TTs in the dust. If you can point out those posts I would be interested to read them. I've only seen posters say TTs dwarf non-TTs in college successes, and then some poster (maybe you?) say it was all due to rich parents or squash. I've gone through the thread and the only post I seeing comparing Brearley to another school specifically was one saying Brearley and Spence outcomes blow Riverdale out of the water. Because Riverdale is not a TT, I don't think that supports your assertion either.

Not PP, but as long as we are only going by HYPS acceptances from the instagram pages, Brearley *is* seemingly much more impressive than HM/Trinity, which in turn are much closer to e.g. Fieldston/Riverdale.

HYPS seems just to be a silly barometer of what is doing well but from what i see Brearley has a very high percent of girls who go there. but more importantly the t25 (or whatever broader school metric you want to use) shows the vast percent of B kids go to these great schools.

i hear it very stressful though that might be anecdotal

I hear that too (for high school), but then you hear that about Trinity, HM, etc. No doubt, great matriculations at Brearley, although we should keep in mind that their page currently has less than half of the seniors on it.

Yeah, the page is still very incomplete at this point. I am aware of 16 HYPS so far, though.

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Anonymous wrote:This probably depends on what field the [unhooked] kids are going into. Brearley is still very strong in the humanities, and a graduate is guaranteed to have a level of verbal polish (and almost guaranteed to have a liberal lean). Theater is mandatory for a reason. And for STEM fields, girls with high level of aptitude are desirable, so 1 or 2 top math girls have reasonably good prospects (similarly to other top privates and publics). At least that's my rough extrapolation from the few happy outcomes I am familiar with.

Almost the entire grade is filled with happy outcomes, unless you mean happy outcomes only with respect to HYP. Then it's only about 20% of the class that has happy outcomes in that narrow sense.

The conversation is about HYP and some posters delusion that B is a genius factory, so much so that it leaves other TTs in the dust. Occam’s razor says some of them are super rich and can buy spots

I haven't seen anyone say Brearley leaves other TTs in the dust. If you can point out those posts I would be interested to read them. I've only seen posters say TTs dwarf non-TTs in college successes, and then some poster (maybe you?) say it was all due to rich parents or squash. I've gone through the thread and the only post I seeing comparing Brearley to another school specifically was one saying Brearley and Spence outcomes blow Riverdale out of the water. Because Riverdale is not a TT, I don't think that supports your assertion either.

Not PP, but as long as we are only going by HYPS acceptances from the instagram pages, Brearley *is* seemingly much more impressive than HM/Trinity, which in turn are much closer to e.g. Fieldston/Riverdale.

HYPS seems just to be a silly barometer of what is doing well but from what i see Brearley has a very high percent of girls who go there. but more importantly the t25 (or whatever broader school metric you want to use) shows the vast percent of B kids go to these great schools.

i hear it very stressful though that might be anecdotal

- that's fair it's still not highly populated yet. what i find to be interesting is how good Spence and Chapin is this year - (and frankly many schools both TT and 2T schools). The girls school seem to do a good job of getting kids into top colleges.
I hear that too (for high school), but then you hear that about Trinity, HM, etc. No doubt, great matriculations at Brearley, although we should keep in mind that their page currently has less than half of the seniors on it.

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Anonymous wrote:This probably depends on what field the [unhooked] kids are going into. Brearley is still very strong in the humanities, and a graduate is guaranteed to have a level of verbal polish (and almost guaranteed to have a liberal lean). Theater is mandatory for a reason. And for STEM fields, girls with high level of aptitude are desirable, so 1 or 2 top math girls have reasonably good prospects (similarly to other top privates and publics). At least that's my rough extrapolation from the few happy outcomes I am familiar with.

Almost the entire grade is filled with happy outcomes, unless you mean happy outcomes only with respect to HYP. Then it's only about 20% of the class that has happy outcomes in that narrow sense.

The conversation is about HYP and some posters delusion that B is a genius factory, so much so that it leaves other TTs in the dust. Occam’s razor says some of them are super rich and can buy spots

I haven't seen anyone say Brearley leaves other TTs in the dust. If you can point out those posts I would be interested to read them. I've only seen posters say TTs dwarf non-TTs in college successes, and then some poster (maybe you?) say it was all due to rich parents or squash. I've gone through the thread and the only post I seeing comparing Brearley to another school specifically was one saying Brearley and Spence outcomes blow Riverdale out of the water. Because Riverdale is not a TT, I don't think that supports your assertion either.

Not PP, but as long as we are only going by HYPS acceptances from the instagram pages, Brearley *is* seemingly much more impressive than HM/Trinity, which in turn are much closer to e.g. Fieldston/Riverdale.

HYPS seems just to be a silly barometer of what is doing well but from what i see Brearley has a very high percent of girls who go there. but more importantly the t25 (or whatever broader school metric you want to use) shows the vast percent of B kids go to these great schools.

i hear it very stressful though that might be anecdotal

I hear that too (for high school), but then you hear that about Trinity, HM, etc. No doubt, great matriculations at Brearley, although we should keep in mind that their page currently has less than half of the seniors on it.

Yeah, the page is still very incomplete at this point. I am aware of 16 HYPS so far, though.

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Anonymous wrote:This probably depends on what field the [unhooked] kids are going into. Brearley is still very strong in the humanities, and a graduate is guaranteed to have a level of verbal polish (and almost guaranteed to have a liberal lean). Theater is mandatory for a reason. And for STEM fields, girls with high level of aptitude are desirable, so 1 or 2 top math girls have reasonably good prospects (similarly to other top privates and publics). At least that's my rough extrapolation from the few happy outcomes I am familiar with.

Almost the entire grade is filled with happy outcomes, unless you mean happy outcomes only with respect to HYP. Then it's only about 20% of the class that has happy outcomes in that narrow sense.

The conversation is about HYP and some posters delusion that B is a genius factory, so much so that it leaves other TTs in the dust. Occam’s razor says some of them are super rich and can buy spots

I haven't seen anyone say Brearley leaves other TTs in the dust. If you can point out those posts I would be interested to read them. I've only seen posters say TTs dwarf non-TTs in college successes, and then some poster (maybe you?) say it was all due to rich parents or squash. I've gone through the thread and the only post I seeing comparing Brearley to another school specifically was one saying Brearley and Spence outcomes blow Riverdale out of the water. Because Riverdale is not a TT, I don't think that supports your assertion either.

Not PP, but as long as we are only going by HYPS acceptances from the instagram pages, Brearley *is* seemingly much more impressive than HM/Trinity, which in turn are much closer to e.g. Fieldston/Riverdale.

HYPS seems just to be a silly barometer of what is doing well but from what i see Brearley has a very high percent of girls who go there. but more importantly the t25 (or whatever broader school metric you want to use) shows the vast percent of B kids go to these great schools.

i hear it very stressful though that might be anecdotal

I hear that too (for high school), but then you hear that about Trinity, HM, etc. No doubt, great matriculations at Brearley, although we should keep in mind that their page currently has less than half of the seniors on it.

Yeah, the page is still very incomplete at this point. I am aware of 16 HYPS so far, though.

The girls school seem to have a great track record of getting girls into top schools. i think 50 spence girls have stated where they are going to school and the number of so so colleges is probably 5. 45/50 is pretty great outcomes overall especially if like 30 of the 45 are "elite (ivys, stanford, williams, stanford, duke, amherst). and the 5 so so are U Miami, Barnard, Colgate, wake forest , northeastern. those are still really good schools.

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Anonymous wrote:This probably depends on what field the [unhooked] kids are going into. Brearley is still very strong in the humanities, and a graduate is guaranteed to have a level of verbal polish (and almost guaranteed to have a liberal lean). Theater is mandatory for a reason. And for STEM fields, girls with high level of aptitude are desirable, so 1 or 2 top math girls have reasonably good prospects (similarly to other top privates and publics). At least that's my rough extrapolation from the few happy outcomes I am familiar with.

Almost the entire grade is filled with happy outcomes, unless you mean happy outcomes only with respect to HYP. Then it's only about 20% of the class that has happy outcomes in that narrow sense.

The conversation is about HYP and some posters delusion that B is a genius factory, so much so that it leaves other TTs in the dust. Occam’s razor says some of them are super rich and can buy spots

I haven't seen anyone say Brearley leaves other TTs in the dust. If you can point out those posts I would be interested to read them. I've only seen posters say TTs dwarf non-TTs in college successes, and then some poster (maybe you?) say it was all due to rich parents or squash. I've gone through the thread and the only post I seeing comparing Brearley to another school specifically was one saying Brearley and Spence outcomes blow Riverdale out of the water. Because Riverdale is not a TT, I don't think that supports your assertion either.

Not PP, but as long as we are only going by HYPS acceptances from the instagram pages, Brearley *is* seemingly much more impressive than HM/Trinity, which in turn are much closer to e.g. Fieldston/Riverdale.

HYPS seems just to be a silly barometer of what is doing well but from what i see Brearley has a very high percent of girls who go there. but more importantly the t25 (or whatever broader school metric you want to use) shows the vast percent of B kids go to these great schools.

i hear it very stressful though that might be anecdotal

I hear that too (for high school), but then you hear that about Trinity, HM, etc. No doubt, great matriculations at Brearley, although we should keep in mind that their page currently has less than half of the seniors on it.

Yeah, the page is still very incomplete at this point. I am aware of 16 HYPS so far, though.

The girls school seem to have a great track record of getting girls into top schools. i think 50 spence girls have stated where they are going to school and the number of so so colleges is probably 5. 45/50 is pretty great outcomes overall especially if like 30 of the 45 are "elite (ivys, stanford, williams, stanford, duke, amherst). and the 5 so so are U Miami, Barnard, Colgate, wake forest , northeastern. those are still really good schools.

I'd say it's roughly the same for TT co-eds, with perhaps fewer HYPS admits at HM/Trin.

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At Trinity, so far 8 of 120 graduating seniors have announced they will be attending Princeton (compared to 2 at Horace Mann and 1 at Riverdale). A huge group also going to Columbia, Duke, Chicago and Cornell. Of the 110 kids that have reported college destinations, close to 40 going to Ivies, and close to 70 going to Ivies + Stanford, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Rice, Wash U, Williams, Amherst and Pomona.

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Here's the Trinity page: https://www.instagram.com/trindecisions2026/?hl=en

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The 70/120 at Trinity is excluding those going to very strong but not top schools like Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Emory, Georgetown, Haverford, U Michigan, NYU, UVA, etc. If you add those schools, that gets you to 95 of the 110 students that have declared college destinations. The bottom 15 of the class are going to schools including Colby, Lehigh, McGill, Middlebury, Northeastern, Pitzer, St. Andrews, Tufts, Tulane, UT-Austin, and Wesleyan.

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Anonymous wrote:The 70/120 at Trinity is excluding those going to very strong but not top schools like Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Emory, Georgetown, Haverford, U Michigan, NYU, UVA, etc. If you add those schools, that gets you to 95 of the 110 students that have declared college destinations. The bottom 15 of the class are going to schools including Colby, Lehigh, McGill, Middlebury, Northeastern, Pitzer, St. Andrews, Tufts, Tulane, UT-Austin, and Wesleyan.

Not to nit pick as your point is well taken, and not to turn this into the college thread, but some of the schools in your lower group are arguably more competitive than those in the first group. But it is close enough.

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Off the top, one Princeton admit is a recruited athlete and one is a prof’s kid. I’m sure more hooks abound. The admissions are impressive but I’m not putting huge stock in them esp wrt a particular university.

Anonymous wrote:At Trinity, so far 8 of 120 graduating seniors have announced they will be attending Princeton (compared to 2 at Horace Mann and 1 at Riverdale). A huge group also going to Columbia, Duke, Chicago and Cornell. Of the 110 kids that have reported college destinations, close to 40 going to Ivies, and close to 70 going to Ivies + Stanford, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Rice, Wash U, Williams, Amherst and Pomona.

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How are the 2T schools doing?

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Anonymous wrote:Off the top, one Princeton admit is a recruited athlete and one is a prof’s kid. I’m sure more hooks abound. The admissions are impressive but I’m not putting huge stock in them esp wrt a particular university.

Anonymous wrote:At Trinity, so far 8 of 120 graduating seniors have announced they will be attending Princeton (compared to 2 at Horace Mann and 1 at Riverdale). A huge group also going to Columbia, Duke, Chicago and Cornell. Of the 110 kids that have reported college destinations, close to 40 going to Ivies, and close to 70 going to Ivies + Stanford, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Rice, Wash U, Williams, Amherst and Pomona.

It's interesting because the 2025 page is still up on Instagram and it's a similar proportion going Ivy+ but many more to Brown last year and less to Duke vs vice versa this year. Wonder what drives this and how to think about the value of the school in this context. Sounds like it's just as difficult if not more to get into HYPS as a competitive suburban public but far greater likelihood to end up at the next rung of lower Ivies, Duke and UChicago. Would most find this to be an acceptable or even good outcome for all those tuition dollars?