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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found a handy chart of Westchester school district average SATs on a realtor's website:

https://houlihanomalley.com/westchester-high-schools/

What leaps out at me about this is the range - from 1413 in Scarsdale to 1229 in Rye Neck (still considered one of the better ones) to 1023 in Tuckahoe or 900 in Yonkers. Low-to-mid 1200s is also where the top districts in Connecticut land. Roosevelt - often considered the best GenEd high school in NYC - averages around 1360, and the SHSAT schools range from around that number for Brooklyn Tech to 1500 at Stuy.

My argument would be that while Scarsdale and Edgemont and Chappaqua and Armonk don't technically get to counsel out or turn away anybody any more than Yonkers does, the wealth and educational attainment of their towns' populations is such that it effectively functions as a form of screened admissions; "buying a house in Scarsdale" is a very different filter than "getting your kindergartener into Horace Mann" or "getting your 9th grader into Bronx Science" but they all end up producing pretty similar student populations.

(which raises some interesting larger questions about the value / selectivity of private schools in general)[/quote]

Similar SAT scores (assuming that’s true) does not mean similar student populations. The non financial aid students at TTs will be better socialized, resourced, and have better careers down the road than their suburban counterparts. They have more access to the fine arts and will make a bigger impact in college and beyond. [/quote]

Strongly disagree. I know tons of super well rounded, cultured, interesting Ivy grads from the burbs. And a lot of rich but ignorant, low class, tacky alums of TT schools.

Making broad generalizations like this is showcasing ignorance. Assume this post was by the anti-Scarsdale faux squash fan.[/quote]

Colleges, investment firms, and even country clubs don’t want super well rounded. They want personality and X factor. Scarsdale produces very milquetoast dweebs. That is why Scarsdale underperforms in matriculation despite posters here bragging about its SAT repeatedly. [/quote]

On not wanting super well rounded - I could see the light leave the eyes of my Spence interviewer when i said i went to a large public high school. [/quote]
OMG, I literally had a Spence interviewer say after DD's interview: "well, she is obviously very well-rounded" in the most unenthusiastic way imaginable...
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