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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife and I just went through the K admissions process.  We're not originally from NYC and have no connection to any local private schools. Our child was at one of the "Baby Ivies" for preschool and we expected that would translate into excellent admissions choices. However, after completing the process we believe that the excellent exmissions stats of our preschool are largely due to them carefully selecting children who fit the preferred profile of the K-12 schools, and not due to much educational or reputational "value add" on their part. The preferred profile includes children of TT alumni and kids who provide visual but not socioeconomic diversity (think URM with parents in law, finance, medicine, etc.). I suspect the same is true for the high schools with excellent exmission stats. Getting kids into Ivies for college is easier if the parents are alumni and donors.[/quote]

Thanks for this input. Did your PSD do a lot of bartering for the final admission? Also, If a child is unconnected, were their exmissions still as strong?  My colleague whose unconnected child went to a Baby Ivy preschool didn’t get into the top 2 schools she wanted (Trinity and brearley) because all the spots went to siblings and super donors. [/quote]

I imagine the PSD directed your colleague to apply to Spence and Chapin.   Those schools are very similar academically to Brearley.   Yes, Brearley has the reputation of being the most academically rigorous but really the difference is minimal.[/quote]

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