Did your DMV private do better than Westminster Atlanta?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is common at the top NYC high schools. Check out the Insta accounts for the classes of 2025 at Trinity, Brearley, Collegiate, Dalton, Horace Mann… Impressive placement %s at Stuy too. I heard 60 (in a class of about 750) admitted at Cornell, 15 Yale etc.

NYC kids have amazing ECs because of access to top hospitals, Wall St, tech, law firms, Broadway, fashion, Lincoln Ctr & Carnegie for music and dance. You name it. I know of kids interning/working with Nobel laureates, Olympic gold medalists, Tony & Oscar winning directors who all live on NYC.

NYC kids also have lots of parents who either went to these schools or can donate a small fortune to these schools. As impressive as they are, the average school for most of them is worse than the average school for the parents. Lots of Harvard/Yale couples sending their kid to Cornell (so doing worse than the parents) or kid got into Harvard/Yale because of the legacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is common at the top NYC high schools. Check out the Insta accounts for the classes of 2025 at Trinity, Brearley, Collegiate, Dalton, Horace Mann… Impressive placement %s at Stuy too. I heard 60 (in a class of about 750) admitted at Cornell, 15 Yale etc.

NYC kids have amazing ECs because of access to top hospitals, Wall St, tech, law firms, Broadway, fashion, Lincoln Ctr & Carnegie for music and dance. You name it. I know of kids interning/working with Nobel laureates, Olympic gold medalists, Tony & Oscar winning directors who all live on NYC.

NYC kids also have lots of parents who either went to these schools or can donate a small fortune to these schools. As impressive as they are, the average school for most of them is worse than the average school for the parents. Lots of Harvard/Yale couples sending their kid to Cornell (so doing worse than the parents) or kid got into Harvard/Yale because of the legacy.

Look at that insta reel for St. Anns....
those were not donor families...at Yale, Williams, Harvard. Maybe Princeton?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is common at the top NYC high schools. Check out the Insta accounts for the classes of 2025 at Trinity, Brearley, Collegiate, Dalton, Horace Mann… Impressive placement %s at Stuy too. I heard 60 (in a class of about 750) admitted at Cornell, 15 Yale etc.

NYC kids have amazing ECs because of access to top hospitals, Wall St, tech, law firms, Broadway, fashion, Lincoln Ctr & Carnegie for music and dance. You name it. I know of kids interning/working with Nobel laureates, Olympic gold medalists, Tony & Oscar winning directors who all live on NYC.

NYC kids also have lots of parents who either went to these schools or can donate a small fortune to these schools. As impressive as they are, the average school for most of them is worse than the average school for the parents. Lots of Harvard/Yale couples sending their kid to Cornell (so doing worse than the parents) or kid got into Harvard/Yale because of the legacy.

You sound bitter. It hasn't been that way for my private (non-DMV) kids. Getting into T20 (better or same) as the T20 we each went to. Full pay obviously helps.

What HS did your kids go to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is common at the top NYC high schools. Check out the Insta accounts for the classes of 2025 at Trinity, Brearley, Collegiate, Dalton, Horace Mann… Impressive placement %s at Stuy too. I heard 60 (in a class of about 750) admitted at Cornell, 15 Yale etc.

NYC kids have amazing ECs because of access to top hospitals, Wall St, tech, law firms, Broadway, fashion, Lincoln Ctr & Carnegie for music and dance. You name it. I know of kids interning/working with Nobel laureates, Olympic gold medalists, Tony & Oscar winning directors who all live on NYC.

NYC kids also have lots of parents who either went to these schools or can donate a small fortune to these schools. As impressive as they are, the average school for most of them is worse than the average school for the parents. Lots of Harvard/Yale couples sending their kid to Cornell (so doing worse than the parents) or kid got into Harvard/Yale because of the legacy.

Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is common at the top NYC high schools. Check out the Insta accounts for the classes of 2025 at Trinity, Brearley, Collegiate, Dalton, Horace Mann… Impressive placement %s at Stuy too. I heard 60 (in a class of about 750) admitted at Cornell, 15 Yale etc.

NYC kids have amazing ECs because of access to top hospitals, Wall St, tech, law firms, Broadway, fashion, Lincoln Ctr & Carnegie for music and dance. You name it. I know of kids interning/working with Nobel laureates, Olympic gold medalists, Tony & Oscar winning directors who all live on NYC.

I just looked at the Spence25 Insta account and holy smokes, it’s very impressive! 6 Harvard, a couple each at Yale, Stanford MIT, Penn, Cornell, Chicago etc. It’s a small school, I read 55-60 girls per class. And it’s not even considered the strongest amongst the NYC privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is common at the top NYC high schools. Check out the Insta accounts for the classes of 2025 at Trinity, Brearley, Collegiate, Dalton, Horace Mann… Impressive placement %s at Stuy too. I heard 60 (in a class of about 750) admitted at Cornell, 15 Yale etc.

NYC kids have amazing ECs because of access to top hospitals, Wall St, tech, law firms, Broadway, fashion, Lincoln Ctr & Carnegie for music and dance. You name it. I know of kids interning/working with Nobel laureates, Olympic gold medalists, Tony & Oscar winning directors who all live on NYC.

I just looked at the Spence25 Insta account and holy smokes, it’s very impressive! 6 Harvard, a couple each at Yale, Stanford MIT, Penn, Cornell, Chicago etc. It’s a small school, I read 55-60 girls per class. And it’s not even considered the strongest amongst the NYC privates.

Spence has incredibly rich kids. Many of the parents will be flagged as major donors giving the kids a huge admissions boost (adding to their privilege).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

This one is much more impressive.

This is quite possibly the best college placement I've seen of ANY private school in the US this year:

https://www.instagram.com/ransomseniors/

[Anonymous]

These are all lies. Ivy colleges have enormously leaned into equity. There are tens of thousands of lower class and middle class students attending public schools. These students are a much higher priority than private school students. The way you guys make it sound that going to a prestigious private independent day or boarding school gives you an advantage. It doesn't.

We are told by the Ivy colleges themselves that they much prefer lower SES students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at Ransom Everglades' (Coconut Groove/Miami) Class of 2025 matriculation:

- from the HOS email: "Thirty-three RE students (more than 20 percent of the class) are heading to Ivy League schools, MIT or Stanford."

https://ransomeverglades.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/748/download/download_10894750.pdf

This one is much more impressive.

This is quite possibly the best college placement I've seen of ANY private school in the US this year:

https://www.instagram.com/ransomseniors/

They are largely Hispanic (Cuban etc) and wealthy. I looked up one kid and stopped there when I realized she's the child of billionaires. This is not DMV money.

[Anonymous]

RE is NYC level money and they all qualify as URM. Pretty much the top of the college admissions heap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RE is NYC level money and they all qualify as URM. Pretty much the top of the college admissions heap.

Many are not hispanic....that's a weird sterotype.

[Anonymous]

Unless I am looking at it wrong, that is fine but nothing special. A huge portion are in-state to Florida. Not very exciting. Thank you for wasting a few minutes of my life. I only bothered to look because one of my best friends went there (they went to a top-20-30ish school in the early 00's). It is a very good school. But nothing off the charts. And I'm pretty sure a big number of the better schools are minorities and/or legacies.

[Anonymous]

DP. I think the results are pretty good - but yes, I'm sure some got a boost from being a minority, legacy, athlete. A family we know moved their kids to RE and the older ones ended up at Top 35ish schools, so you still have to be an excellent student to get into the top tier of colleges - no amount of money or privilege will get you there on its own. Still waiting to see where the youngest is headed.