Where are all the Ivy admits coming from you wonder? Dalton NYC 2023 Matriculations

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Anonymous wrote:Check out Trinity. I think its even more impressive.

Is it impressive that kids from a very fancy New York City private school are getting into competitive colleges? I think it would make a bigger impression if that were not happening.

There are plenty of (dozens if not more) fancy privates in NYC, not every single one is Dalton. I am wondering if they are indeed doing something right.

I don't think dalton's stats are anymore impressive than the results at Collegiate, Brearley, Chapin, Trinity, Regis, HM, etc. Nevermind Stuy, etc

But we are talking about fancy, old, but not as prestigious ones, Browning, Columbia Prep, Dwight, Trevor, and Grace Church. Plenty more.

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Anonymous wrote:Check out Trinity. I think its even more impressive.

Is it impressive that kids from a very fancy New York City private school are getting into competitive colleges? I think it would make a bigger impression if that were not happening.

There are plenty of (dozens if not more) fancy privates in NYC, not every single one is Dalton. I am wondering if they are indeed doing something right.

I don't think dalton's stats are anymore impressive than the results at Collegiate, Brearley, Chapin, Trinity, Regis, HM, etc. Nevermind Stuy, etc

But we are talking about fancy, old, but not as prestigious ones, Browning, Columbia Prep, Dwight, Trevor, and Grace Church. Plenty more.

We are? I thought we were talking about dalton

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out Trinity. I think its even more impressive.

Is it impressive that kids from a very fancy New York City private school are getting into competitive colleges? I think it would make a bigger impression if that were not happening.

There are plenty of (dozens if not more) fancy privates in NYC, not every single one is Dalton. I am wondering if they are indeed doing something right.

I don't think dalton's stats are anymore impressive than the results at Collegiate, Brearley, Chapin, Trinity, Regis, HM, etc. Nevermind Stuy, etc

But we are talking about fancy, old, but not as prestigious ones, Browning, Columbia Prep, Dwight, Trevor, and Grace Church. Plenty more.

We are? I thought we were talking about dalton

Yes we are. "There are plenty of (dozens if not more) fancy privates in NYC, not every single one is Dalton."

Families at Browning, Columbia Prep, Dwight, Trevor, and Grace Church are all wealthy and privileged. But these schools aren't even half as good as Dalton.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC and grew up in DC. The wealth and connections are generally on a different scale. These are billionaire, private jet, private island type families. They are masters of industry who have Ivy board members on speed dial. They basically own Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

Exactly! The Ivies and top schools are all talk and full of it.

No, the concept is introduce *some* diverse students who will then have access to these elite peers and the education they've always been able to secure (and vice versa, maybe). Eliminate that original group and all is for naught.

They dont really hang out together.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a second-tier NYC private and was unhooked but...

IMO Dalton and Trinity are in a different league because every kid is hooked. They are either the child of a billionaire, or the kid is extremely talented (I knew a couple of kids in my grade who attended Dalton while basically working as professional actors or writers, similar to Professional Children's School) or they were exceptional URM candidates from Prep for Prep.

That's the URM pipeline.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a second-tier NYC private and was unhooked but...

IMO Dalton and Trinity are in a different league because every kid is hooked. They are either the child of a billionaire, or the kid is extremely talented (I knew a couple of kids in my grade who attended Dalton while basically working as professional actors or writers, similar to Professional Children's School) or they were exceptional URM candidates from Prep for Prep.

That's the URM pipeline.

yes, the URMs are poor and FG from PrepforPrep.

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Anonymous wrote:Not only Dalton. NYC privates schools are just one a whole different level. Then maybe MA, CA, TX, NJ and Il. Then here. Not really comparable.

I think TJ holds it's own vs other top publics, but not the privates.

Here's an interesting list: https://polarislist.com/

TJ is right up there but you're right about NYC, MA, NJ, CA, CT being the cream of the crop.

TJ doesn't really compete percentage wise. The wealth difference is simply too large.

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Anonymous wrote:Brearley usually has most HYPSM admits per student in nyc. Then Trinity/Collegiate/Regis/Dalton/HM is race for second.

It's usually collegiate. Or at least it used to be. Brearley is an all girls school.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

These TT private schools are hard. They're no joke. A grind that a lot of parents don't want for their kids. Kids who enter in younger grades are often counseled out long before HS. You can apply to get in for MS and then again for HS. But truthfully, they don't take a kid for HS unless they're extraordinary (ie know they won't have issues placing them for college).

Not sure of numbers now, but acceptance rates into these top NYC privates are single digits. Hooked helps, that's true. At privates. Not true at Regis, Stuy, Hunter, etc.

Admission is not harder at these privates than Stuy or hunter.

Dalton is kind of low end of top private in NYC.

The kids at Stuy and Hunter are smarter but poorer.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

These TT private schools are hard. They're no joke. A grind that a lot of parents don't want for their kids. Kids who enter in younger grades are often counseled out long before HS. You can apply to get in for MS and then again for HS. But truthfully, they don't take a kid for HS unless they're extraordinary (ie know they won't have issues placing them for college).

Not sure of numbers now, but acceptance rates into these top NYC privates are single digits. Hooked helps, that's true. At privates. Not true at Regis, Stuy, Hunter, etc.

Admission is not harder at these privates than Stuy or hunter.

Dalton is kind of low end of top private in NYC.

The kids at Stuy and Hunter are smarter but poorer.

Yeah, I don't know about that last sentence. We know a Dalton to Stuy transfer (because parent is a Stuy alumn). We know a few Stuy families who are quite well off and FAFSA is not part of their college process. It's not the majority, but they are there.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

These TT private schools are hard. They're no joke. A grind that a lot of parents don't want for their kids. Kids who enter in younger grades are often counseled out long before HS. You can apply to get in for MS and then again for HS. But truthfully, they don't take a kid for HS unless they're extraordinary (ie know they won't have issues placing them for college).

Not sure of numbers now, but acceptance rates into these top NYC privates are single digits. Hooked helps, that's true. At privates. Not true at Regis, Stuy, Hunter, etc.

Admission is not harder at these privates than Stuy or hunter.

Dalton is kind of low end of top private in NYC.

The kids at Stuy and Hunter are smarter but poorer.

Hunter college admissions has been atrocious the past few yrs. The kids I know who graduated are now at Indiana. Also, Spence. Filled with connected girls and massive grade inflation. You can retake tests until you get an A. 6 girls to Harvard this yr. Riverdale’s admissions are excellent, Fieldston much less so.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

These TT private schools are hard. They're no joke. A grind that a lot of parents don't want for their kids. Kids who enter in younger grades are often counseled out long before HS. You can apply to get in for MS and then again for HS. But truthfully, they don't take a kid for HS unless they're extraordinary (ie know they won't have issues placing them for college).

Not sure of numbers now, but acceptance rates into these top NYC privates are single digits. Hooked helps, that's true. At privates. Not true at Regis, Stuy, Hunter, etc.

Admission is not harder at these privates than Stuy or hunter.

Dalton is kind of low end of top private in NYC.

The kids at Stuy and Hunter are smarter but poorer.

Hunter college admissions has been atrocious the past few yrs. The kids I know who graduated are now at Indiana. Also, Spence. Filled with connected girls and massive grade inflation. You can retake tests until you get an A. 6 girls to Harvard this yr. Riverdale’s admissions are excellent, Fieldston much less so.

That surprises me about Hunter. Why?

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Anonymous wrote:The parent population at top NYC privates is in an entirely different league than DC’s.

I’m not sure exactly where the kids of Katie Holmes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emily Blunt (if they’re back in NYC now), Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey etc go to school in NYC, but presumably top NYC privates. And I bet they’re far from the wealthiest parents of kids at those schools when you take into account NYC finance parents. Unlike DC privates that have a lot of civil servants making $180k/year.

Katie Holmes - Avenues - eh
Sarah Jessica Parker - City and Country - eh
Emily Blunt - don't know
Blake Lively - Village Community School - eh
Drew Barrymore - Brearley - amazing
Tina Fewy. - Brearley - amazing

Ok this is scary…

SJP’s son went to upper school at Fieldston. He is now at Brown. Idk where her twins are but C and C ends at 8th.

My daughter is at Nightingale and saw Drew on a tour recently. Not sure what that means for her dds. I assumed they were at Spence bc the aunt (Kopelman’s sister) went there.

Suri is at Wake now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

These TT private schools are hard. They're no joke. A grind that a lot of parents don't want for their kids. Kids who enter in younger grades are often counseled out long before HS. You can apply to get in for MS and then again for HS. But truthfully, they don't take a kid for HS unless they're extraordinary (ie know they won't have issues placing them for college).

Not sure of numbers now, but acceptance rates into these top NYC privates are single digits. Hooked helps, that's true. At privates. Not true at Regis, Stuy, Hunter, etc.

Admission is not harder at these privates than Stuy or hunter.

Dalton is kind of low end of top private in NYC.

The kids at Stuy and Hunter are smarter but poorer.

Hunter college admissions has been atrocious the past few yrs. The kids I know who graduated are now at Indiana. Also, Spence. Filled with connected girls and massive grade inflation. You can retake tests until you get an A. 6 girls to Harvard this yr. Riverdale’s admissions are excellent, Fieldston much less so.

That surprises me about Hunter. Why?

Idk. On one hand, half the class is taken based on an IQ test given to 5 year olds which probably isn’t so reliable. But of the kids I know who were denied widely, one got 1580 and the other is a Harvard and Cornell legacy.

Also, Lin Manuel Miranda went there and now his kid is there. I actually think his wife may have gone there too - they started dating in HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

These TT private schools are hard. They're no joke. A grind that a lot of parents don't want for their kids. Kids who enter in younger grades are often counseled out long before HS. You can apply to get in for MS and then again for HS. But truthfully, they don't take a kid for HS unless they're extraordinary (ie know they won't have issues placing them for college).

Not sure of numbers now, but acceptance rates into these top NYC privates are single digits. Hooked helps, that's true. At privates. Not true at Regis, Stuy, Hunter, etc.

Admission is not harder at these privates than Stuy or hunter.

Dalton is kind of low end of top private in NYC.

The kids at Stuy and Hunter are smarter but poorer.

Hunter college admissions has been atrocious the past few yrs. The kids I know who graduated are now at Indiana. Also, Spence. Filled with connected girls and massive grade inflation. You can retake tests until you get an A. 6 girls to Harvard this yr. Riverdale’s admissions are excellent, Fieldston much less so.

That surprises me about Hunter. Why?

https://www.instagram.com/hawkscommit25/
Yep. Hunter is terrible. Definitely not worth the...oh wait, unlike the other schools you mention, it is FREE.