Hi, new money here. Moving to Manhattan (life long dream to live there). What are the best schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Dalton, Trinity, Horace Mann, Fieldston, and St. Ann's are the best private schools. Some would also toss Brearley and Collegiate in there. A new money child will need IQ scores in the top 2-3% to get in, though, unless you are a celebrity. Cast a wide net to include Columbia Grammar, Berkeley Carroll, Brooklyn Friends, Riverdale Country, Little Red Schoolhouse/ ELizabeth Irwin etc.

Skip Birch Wathen Lenox.

The public magnets, like Hunter, Anderson, and Stuyvesant may be better schools in terms of peer group brainpower.

Public school mom here. Skip the public Citywides (Anderson, NESTm), which now just have lottery admissions and have essentially been scalped by the DOE (NESTm has a nice high school but it is not "gifted" - they're actually better known for special ed support). Hunter & Stuy are filled with brainiacs but are brutally competitive and offer virtually no college support. If I had endless resources I'd choose a private K-12.

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Public school mom here. Skip the public Citywides (Anderson, NESTm), which now just have lottery admissions and have essentially been scalped by the DOE (NESTm has a nice high school but it is not "gifted" - they're actually better known for special ed support). Hunter & Stuy are filled with brainiacs but are brutally competitive and offer virtually no college support. If I had endless resources I'd choose a private K-12.

Has the curriculum changed? It was previously a big advantage compared to zone schools.

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It was always the same public school curriculum for the most part, just accelerated, which G&T kids could handle. And parents with resources to fill in the gaps.

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So are we out of luck for these top tier K if we aren’t legacy, sibling, URM or donor?

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Anonymous wrote:Who is testing the IQ of their 5 year old?? That seems insane to me

Was required in for Atlanta, Georgia private schools over 30 years ago & continues until today and beyond.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dalton, Trinity, Horace Mann, Fieldston, and St. Ann's are the best private schools. Some would also toss Brearley and Collegiate in there. A new money child will need IQ scores in the top 2-3% to get in, though, unless you are a celebrity. Cast a wide net to include Columbia Grammar, Berkeley Carroll, Brooklyn Friends, Riverdale Country, Little Red Schoolhouse/ ELizabeth Irwin etc.

Skip Birch Wathen Lenox.

The public magnets, like Hunter, Anderson, and Stuyvesant may be better schools in terms of peer group brainpower.

Public school mom here. Skip the public Citywides (Anderson, NESTm), which now just have lottery admissions and have essentially been scalped by the DOE (NESTm has a nice high school but it is not "gifted" - they're actually better known for special ed support). Hunter & Stuy are filled with brainiacs but are brutally competitive and offer virtually no college support. If I had endless resources I'd choose a private K-12.

+1. If your only goal is to get your kid into a great college - public school is totally sufficient and schools like Hunter and Stuy very regularly send massive quantities of children to ivy leagues. With private K-12, your college outcome might not be different but your kid will be more well-spoken and a bit more equipped for coastal elite life.

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Anonymous wrote:
+1. If your only goal is to get your kid into a great college - public school is totally sufficient and schools like Hunter and Stuy very regularly send massive quantities of children to ivy leagues. With private K-12, your college outcome might not be different but your kid will be more well-spoken and a bit more equipped for coastal elite life.

There a lot more nuance and complexity towards the decision. The private school kid that becomes a teacher and/or faculty isn't the coastal elite people think of. In addition, families tend to self-segregate based on socioeconomic status.

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Avenues.

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Stuy and Hunter in NYC are both excellent schools pumping out tons of ivy league graduates every year.

New Jersey also has lots of outstanding public school and a few magnet schools.

If you are looking at private schools, it's better to look at NJ. Chances of getting in TT private schools in NYC is extremely low if you are not a sibling, URM, or legacy.