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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that's why many of the kids who enter private from public in 6th or 8th grade tend to be more advanced and do better than the kids who have attended from K.  Obviously, not 100% the case. But at places like Trinity, the kids who enter in 9th tend to be extreme performers.  The kids who got in at K may not have necessarily received an acceptance if they applied at 9th.

Same story with Hunter. The 7th grade entrants tend to perform better than the K lifers.[/quote]

Completely agree - kids accepted in later grades for academics (as opposed to those who get in for connections) have a much more meaningful academic basis for acceptance - the metrics for accepting a kid for K are not very meaningful. As noted, I think this is particularly relevant at Hunter which thinks it has a great testing mechanism for K but it is completely useless.

At my child's school which adds a lot of kids for ninth, the new kids tend to be smarter. There are a few from places like Basis who are a year or two ahead in math (i.e. most kids are tracked to take Calculus in 12th, but they are tracked to take it in 11th or even 10th).

Privates add a lot of public school kids in 9th who are from upper middle class professional families - perhaps making $500k a year with 2-3 kids so private K-12 for all kids is tough, but public k-8 then private 9-12 is manageable, and they are tired of dealing with NYC public school drama and don't want to deal with SHSAT schools, even if their kids got into Stuy, Bronx Science, HSMSE, etc.[/quote]

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