Hi, new money here. Moving to Manhattan (life long dream to live there). What are the best schools?
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| If money wasn't a factor, or transportation issues? |
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I'm feeling like you already started a thread like this. Is this a duplicate thread? |
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No. |
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The Dalton School is where you want to be OP. Enjoy and share some of your house-hunting tips!
https://www.dalton.org/page |
Anonymous
| Horace Mann |
Anonymous
| Would love to see your potential NYC apts., OP. |
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| Trinity |
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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. |
Anonymous
| Why Brooklyn Friends over Friends Seminary? |
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NP and alum of the latter. They're both great. |
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/// How do these schools screen "new money"? I'm contemplating applying for kid for 1st grade, and she's within top 1% based on IQ score. We have the money to afford tuition. Curious how these schools screen and whether we're potentially aiming to enter at a decent entry point. |
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My sister went to Horace Mann; she started in 9th grade. She was a quiet, nerdy kid and did not end up making a lot of friends. This was in the mid-2000s; I’m not sure if it’s changed at all since then.
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Anonymous
| How much new money are you talking? And how did you make it? |
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| Upper West Side. |
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| Flatbush, no question. The diversity is priceless!!! |