Current K Applicants

[Anonymous]

One of my children goes to Collegiate. They have the same problems as every school - it all depends on the particular class make-up and parent body. Some grades are awesome. Some are not. I have friends with kids at schools across NYC and they all say the same thing. No school is going to be perfect, and every school is going to have happy and unhappy parents. Some are just louder than everyone else (on both sides).

[Anonymous]

I feel like K applications are usually intense, but does it seem extra intense this year? Two separate moms have posted on facebook groups this past month or so about needing medication / therapist to survive the process. What is going on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like K applications are usually intense, but does it seem extra intense this year? Two separate moms have posted on facebook groups this past month or so about needing medication / therapist to survive the process. What is going on?

I think that is just her. People need to chill. Heaven forbid their kids end up at a 2T school or public!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like K applications are usually intense, but does it seem extra intense this year? Two separate moms have posted on facebook groups this past month or so about needing medication / therapist to survive the process. What is going on?

The lack of control combined with the fatigue of applying to so many schools and doing the same loop (application, parent interview, child visit, school tour) can be exhausting.

Also remember these are parents used to things generally going their way -- this experience can very much feel the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like K applications are usually intense, but does it seem extra intense this year? Two separate moms have posted on facebook groups this past month or so about needing medication / therapist to survive the process. What is going on?

Hahaha!! This is hilarious! Which group?? I’m in several of them and haven’t heard this yet. Nonetheless as previous poster stated that person just needs a chill pill. And this is coming from an anxious first time mum. We haven’t even gotten to January. Imagine the waiting game anxiety!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like K applications are usually intense, but does it seem extra intense this year? Two separate moms have posted on facebook groups this past month or so about needing medication / therapist to survive the process. What is going on?

Private school demand is up to pre-covid numbers and there is the dismantling of the G&T to Ivy+ pipeline. In addition, the suburbian house price continues to increase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private school demand is up to pre-covid numbers and there is the dismantling of the G&T to Ivy+ pipeline. In addition, the suburbian house price continues to increase.

I get that, but honestly, now that we're in the last years of the class size law rollout, the argument for fighting through hordes of other parents for a desperate shot at paying $64k/year to send your kid to Trevor Day instead of PS6 is getting prettttty week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like K applications are usually intense, but does it seem extra intense this year? Two separate moms have posted on facebook groups this past month or so about needing medication / therapist to survive the process. What is going on?

Hahaha!! This is hilarious! Which group?? I’m in several of them and haven’t heard this yet. Nonetheless as previous poster stated that person just needs a chill pill. And this is coming from an anxious first time mum. We haven’t even gotten to January. Imagine the waiting game anxiety!

One of the posts was definitely on Moms of the Upper East Side facebook group.

[Anonymous]

Remember too that for some parents which school your child attends becomes a form of external signaling. But unlike buying a Hermes bag the schools are gatekeepers that can’t be swayed by money (unless we are talking true legacy shaping gifts)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I get that, but honestly, now that we're in the last years of the class size law rollout, the argument for fighting through hordes of other parents for a desperate shot at paying $64k/year to send your kid to Trevor Day instead of PS6 is getting prettttty week.

People worry the class size law will have an adverse impact (i.e. less children admitted to good public schools and less resources for the schools).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People worry the class size law will have an adverse impact (i.e. less children admitted to good public schools and less resources for the schools).

From what I can tell they’re mostly just adding classes rather than cutting spaces, and when they run out of classrooms they relocate - for example, Salk and PS40 currently share a crowded building, but they’re both super popular National Blue Ribbon schools, so rather than cutting spaces they’re going to move Salk across town to 75 Morton’s underused building.