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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for Dalton parents - does it have the same competitive culture in older grades as other TT schools (thinking HM and Trinity)? If not, how does the school diffuse this? The students are obviously high achieving and ambitious at all of these places. [/quote]

Yes, in many ways, it’s almost exactly the same. In terms of academics, work, etc., there are a ton of gunners, everyone’s competing to get into good schools, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing necessarily. The difference is dalton tends to encourage self-study in a way that is great for some kids and terrible for others. But it’s just as hard as the other schools.

Socially, many of the same issues are prevalent across the TT board. There’s very little difference. However, I will say two things: 1) Dalton does make a tremendous and noticeable effort to flatten the inequality curve in a way that trinity didn’t 2) in general, the feeling we’ve had from dalton families is much more relaxed and less stodgy than other tt’s.

-Trinity grad w/ family @ Dalton[/quote]

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