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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poly Prep and Berkeley Carroll are not hard to get into for middle school (5/6 grade). Most of the full pay students come from UMC families. Parents are lawyers, doctors, middle management, business owners etc. I don’t think you will see a huge difference in lifestyle, mostly comfortable but modest. Most notable difference will be the housing situation. Many kids come from the brownstone neighborhoods.[/quote]

That’s a lie. They are hard to get into. You will be fine at that income level. [/quote]

How is that a lie? Every kid on our block goes to one of these schools and often apply to both.  Some kids got rejected by one of them but I don’t know anyone who didn’t manage to get into one. If you look at the ISEE scores needed for these schools vs. the Daltons in Manhattan you’ll understand.

To the earlier poster who said brownstone neighborhoods have a public school tradition, things have been changing, fast. Since the school lottery system started many parents have switched to private. Also the younger residents of Brownstone neighborhoods generally have the means to pay for private. After all a brownstone sells for $4m+ nowadays in many areas. My older neighbors still talk about the days when they worked hard to improve the local public schools. Sadly things seem to be heading in a different direction these days. [/quote]

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