Is Bryn Mawr School still worth it?

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Anonymous wrote:Bryn Mawr has an EXCELLENT reputation. Many, including myself, have never heard of Tome School, and I'm guessing most employers haven't either.

Happen to know a current freshman who is loving Bryn Mawr, learning tons and has made great friends.

I am not sure what city you don't live in any more, or what that has to do with where your child goes to school, but most people believe that Bryn Mawr is worth the cost

Why do employers care where someone went to HS? How is it possible you don’t see a correlation in where someone lives to where they send their child to HS? Unless you’re confusing OP’s question with Bryn Mawr College in PA?

Sigh, the original poster thinks this is a thread on Bryn Mawr college.

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Anonymous wrote:Bryn Mawr has an EXCELLENT reputation. Many, including myself, have never heard of Tome School, and I'm guessing most employers haven't either.

Happen to know a current freshman who is loving Bryn Mawr, learning tons and has made great friends.

I am not sure what city you don't live in any more, or what that has to do with where your child goes to school, but most people believe that Bryn Mawr is worth the cost

This is a thread on The Bryn Mawr School, for K-12 girls, not college.

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Anonymous wrote:So sad to live your life with such a consuming level of fear.

I had a girlfriend who went to Loyola who felt like that. She was held at knife point on the campus there in the nice part of Baltimore. The was almost 2 decades ago. I can't imagine it's gotten better since then. But yeah, you're probably right. The crime statistics are probably lying. Racist cops and all that. That's why real estate is moving so fast in the area...

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Anonymous wrote:Plus, last time I checked, school is over at 3:30, sports go to 5:30-6, maybe there are evening activities canpus but that’s rare and when they occur I do feel perfectly safe walking with purse and phone out. What is your problem????

I just looked at Baltimore PDs crime map for reported crimes in the past year. Zooming into the Roland Ave area a few blocks around Gilman and Bryn Mawr, in the past year there have been over 70 cases of theft from auto, 12 cases of auto theft, 10 or so burglaries, 27 cases of aggravated assault, 3 car jackings, and a partridge in a pear tree. That's the most cursory examination and generously zooming in only to a couple of blocks.

Your problem is that you aren't so bright and are super oblivious I guess. When it's you or your kids turn, blame yourself, not the police or systemic racism, ok sweetie?

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

The troll may be right about drug addicts watching and cheering the game. They're called students with their vapes.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Bryn Mawr is barely in the city. It sit at the edge of Roland Park, the county side. easily accessible from points north of town.


Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Is this a joke? Have you never been to the North Baltimore private schools? The biggest danger is your kid being run over by a Mercedes suv.

Roland Park et al are not even remotely safe areas. Those campuses are not exactly locked down either. I don't know where exactly the bus drop off would be, but you have a strange sense of what is safe if those areas seem ok to you. Especially in 2023.

You are either a troll or certifiably insane. Maybe both.

For those who re rational, the bus drops off the students at each school, as one would expect.

Haha every Baltimore thread we have you nutters come out of the woodwork and insist the city is safe. Last time I remember someone posted current footage in real time of drug addicts and homeless on the street perpendicular to Bryn Mawr

Definitely going with a troll.

Yeah, because everyone knows Baltimore is super safe. That's for sure the common wisdom. And the criminal stats support your case too! You're definitely not engaged in willful self deceit.

I love walking along Northern Parkway at night with the kids!

I know people who live on Northern Parkway a few blocks from Bryn Mawr. I have no idea what you're trying to allege. Actually, I do, but it makes no sense and only shows that you know nothing about Baltimore.

I live in the burbs and very cognizant of the many problems plaguing Baltimore but your ranting posts about lack of safety around Bryn Mawr is ridiculous. The North Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the campus are handsome, safe, and lovely.

I live in the burbs too, but when I went to a gilman football game last fall, there were 100% drug addicts from the street in attendance. They just walked in and stood at the fence around the field to watch and cheer for the game. I know and respect all these schools, but there isn't a moat separating you from the rest of the city or anything. You have to be aware and conscious of that.

Obviously this never happened. But even if it did, what’s your problem with drug addicts having a good time at a football game like anyone else?

The only crime taking place on Roland Avenue is the price gouging that Eddie’s engages in

I kind of low-key want to meet this person who wouldn't be bothered by a manic drug addict shouting in the end zone at a Gilman football game and who thinks there is no crime in the 21210 or 21212. Is this the same person who takes leisure walks up and down the cesspool that is Northern Parkway? If so, I have a bridge I want to sell you ...
and as I said before, I have a lot of respect for these schools, but these areas of Baltimore are crime prone in a way that neighborhoods even two miles north of there are not. And I say this as a resident, someone who loves the architecture, a runner who routinely traverses the many roads of the city, is raising their children here, blah blah. I don't live my life in fear, but I have a normal and healthy respect for the criminals and the insane drivers on Northern Parkway.

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Anonymous wrote:Bryn Mawr has an EXCELLENT reputation. Many, including myself, have never heard of Tome School, and I'm guessing most employers haven't either.

Happen to know a current freshman who is loving Bryn Mawr, learning tons and has made great friends.

I am not sure what city you don't live in any more, or what that has to do with where your child goes to school, but most people believe that Bryn Mawr is worth the cost

This is a thread on The Bryn Mawr School, for K-12 girls, not college.

The funny thing is that some employers do care about Bryn Mawr or where you went to school if you end up in the Baltimore area.

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Anonymous wrote:So sad to live your life with such a consuming level of fear.

I had a girlfriend who went to Loyola who felt like that. She was held at knife point on the campus there in the nice part of Baltimore. The was almost 2 decades ago. I can't imagine it's gotten better since then. But yeah, you're probably right. The crime statistics are probably lying. Racist cops and all that. That's why real estate is moving so fast in the area...

I went to Loyola and my kid is there now. His friends go to other urban schools- Drexel, Duquesne, La Salle, Manhattan, etc and they all said that as long as you aren't doing "stupid stuff" like walking alone at night, you are safe. The campuses are safe but the surrounding areas are where they need to exercise caution. I walked all around Guilford, Roland Park, Wyndhurst, Homeland and never felt unsafe. They are the nicest areas of the city. Sure, there is non-violent crime but most people are stupid and leave their cars unlocked with visible belongings in it. That's just dumb for any location.

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Anonymous wrote:So sad to live your life with such a consuming level of fear.

I had a girlfriend who went to Loyola who felt like that. She was held at knife point on the campus there in the nice part of Baltimore. The was almost 2 decades ago. I can't imagine it's gotten better since then. But yeah, you're probably right. The crime statistics are probably lying. Racist cops and all that. That's why real estate is moving so fast in the area...

I went to Loyola and my kid is there now. His friends go to other urban schools- Drexel, Duquesne, La Salle, Manhattan, etc and they all said that as long as you aren't doing "stupid stuff" like walking alone at night, you are safe. The campuses are safe but the surrounding areas are where they need to exercise caution. I walked all around Guilford, Roland Park, Wyndhurst, Homeland and never felt unsafe. They are the nicest areas of the city. Sure, there is non-violent crime but most people are stupid and leave their cars unlocked with visible belongings in it. That's just dumb for any location.

As a point of comparison, there are exactly zero cases of property theft or assault within a 10 mile radius of my house. But then again I'm one of those dumb hick suburbanites you Baltimore folk look down upon.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Bryn Mawr is literally walking distance from the city-county line.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Bryn Mawr is literally walking distance from the city-county line.

I'm looking at their bus route as I type this, and from the Fallston stop to Bryn Mawr is 43 minutes per the bus company. Fallston is Harford, not Baltimore County. Although it's right on the line.

It's a bit of a stretch. At least for young kids. I'm thinking about my 3 year old for kindergarten. That's an awfully long commute for her everyday. And depending on the age of the kids she's riding with, I could see that being not great, e.g., a bunch of 15 year olds talking about sex or something. I assume that all ages and all the schools are packed into one bus since there aren't as many people coming from my area.

I'd really like to make Bryn Mawr work, but it might not make sense until my daughters are a bit older. Maybe at like age 8? I don't know how other parents would feel about this. Im just thinking kindergarten and a 45 minute bus ride 2x daily wouldn't work.

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OP - pls check out McDonogh and also Bryn Mawr - kangaroo coach provides bus service to Roland park privates so it may be doable. Both schools do an excellent job preparing kids for college and beyond.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - pls check out McDonogh and also Bryn Mawr - kangaroo coach provides bus service to Roland park privates so it may be doable. Both schools do an excellent job preparing kids for college and beyond.

gatekeepers.

I do plan on contacting McDonogh about their bus routes. I think that's a great suggestion. They don't have any stops in Harford Co, but I'm assuming there are stops pretty close to the line in Balt Co, so it could possibly work.

I guess my main hang up at the moment is whether a long bus ride for a 5 year old is feasible. If my kids are OK with it, either school could work. I'm not averse to it per se, I just don't know if I'm putting too much on them.

Regardless, a stop in Baltimore County going to McDonogh would be under 30 minutes.. I think?

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Man, people start shrieking with terror the minute anyone mentions the word Baltimore. I’ve lived in the city for 25 years, safely and happily. But I’m sure I’m actually just deluded.

Nevertheless, OP, commute does matter a great deal. I would not rule out Bryn Mawr on the basis of it being in scary, scary, Roland Park, but I would rule it out if it is a commute that would be tough — if it’s hard as a kindergartener, it will only get worse as they get older, and have more activities. I mean, I do know people who commute to the RP schools from much farther away, but it’s not a choice I would personally make.

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Anonymous wrote:You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields.

Yes, Harford County. Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome? Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome. The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.

Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name.

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates. I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City. I mean, I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.

Bryn Mawr is literally walking distance from the city-county line.

I'm looking at their bus route as I type this, and from the Fallston stop to Bryn Mawr is 43 minutes per the bus company. Fallston is Harford, not Baltimore County. Although it's right on the line.

It's a bit of a stretch. At least for young kids. I'm thinking about my 3 year old for kindergarten. That's an awfully long commute for her everyday. And depending on the age of the kids she's riding with, I could see that being not great, e.g., a bunch of 15 year olds talking about sex or something. I assume that all ages and all the schools are packed into one bus since there aren't as many people coming from my area.

I'd really like to make Bryn Mawr work, but it might not make sense until my daughters are a bit older. Maybe at like age 8? I don't know how other parents would feel about this. Im just thinking kindergarten and a 45 minute bus ride 2x daily wouldn't work.

No school is worth that kind of commute. If you want to send your kid to a Baltimore school you should move, or stay where you are and stick to a Harford Co school. It's not as good, but so what. There are many factors that lead to success, school is just one of them.