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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also regarding St Anns DNA. but also can't overlook their college placement, even now.

GCS is a solid school, but also very much a full pay place. They dont have the endowment TTs have. They dont have the college placement of 2Ts like Regis or St Ann's or, if we were adding publics, schools like Bronx Science or Hunter.

I put GCS on the same tier as Beacon and Poly Prep and Berkeley Carroll. I think that's 3T.

And if I wanted to open a can of worms: I'd also put Avenues in this tier. It's a good education with solid college counseling and outcomes. Also pretty much full pay, but it is what it is[/quote]

If you are going to be very granular and say 2T is just Regis, St. Ann's, and maybe Riverdale, then I would agree that Grace is 3T. Though if also being that granular, I would likely differentiate it from Berkeley Carroll and make that 4T. If you are doing a broader view of 2T then Grace sneaks in.

Agreed that Avenues is an odd duck. Probably agree with you on the tiering. But it draws a different crowd. And I know some people who sent their kid for elementary (particularly those who live downtown for whom it was convenient) and maxed out the language portion then applied out as they felt that that was its primary differentiating factor and the HS was not as good.[/quote]

Okay, I'll try. I agree that GCS is getting rising in ranks  - just 3-4 years ago they'd take anyone who could pay and was tier 4 - but it's not tier 2. I don't have deep insight into all these schools so this is just my take as a person who has two kids in private high schools in nyc,  has been through the application process twice as an unhooked family, and follows college placement somewhat. I'm sure there are glaring errors.

(these aren't ranked within tiers)

tier 1 
Trinity
Collegiate
Dalton
Spence
Brearley
HM
Chapin

tier 2
St Ann's
Regis 
Riverdale 
Fieldstone
Marymount
Sacred Heart 
Nightingale

tier 3
Loyola
GCS
Packer 
Poly 
Avenues
Friends Seminary

Tier 4
BFS
BC
Basis
Hewitt
Dwight
Trevor
Calhoun
Hackley
Lycée 
UNIS
Xavier/Fordham Prep
Notre Dame/DA/SVF

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Interesting, this is close to instagram thread post with Ivy+WASP college placements, except Brearley (particularly)/Spence/Chapin are in a league of their own, St Ann's is TT, Fieldston is more around 3T with Friends/Packer.  But Fieldston/Friends/Packer place over Poly/GCS[/quote]

We all understand the tiers and largely agree with most of them. Can someone actually rank all these schools though from 1-50 or so? I think that’d actually be super helpful [/quote]

Really? Talk about a pointless exercise. Get a hobby. I can't wait until your kid is applying to college and you are one of the people who decides where their kid goes to college solely based on the idiotic USN&WR rankings. The world doesn't work like that. Except I can very clearly rank those people who are obsessively dependent on ranking as intellectually inferior to those who are intelligent enough to see them as a very limited tool that can provide a bit of very directional guidance and that is it.[/quote] THE SARCASM WENT TOTALLY OVER YOUR HEAD[/quote]  the top 10 schools are pretty much all the same.  probably the next

They asked for it multiple times. They clearly think it is valuable. Which is stupid. If that is sarcasm then it is really awful sarcasm.

This thread started out reasonably helpful. I think we reached a general consensus on the tiers (with minor disagreements over some tweaks). Now it has jumped the shark.[/quote]  the top 10 are probably all close to one another.   the next 15 are the next tier down.   then the bottom 10 kind of all the same.    They are just different schools with different focuses.  but the absolute rankings are kind of silly.  buckets is the right way.[/quote]

Those ten aren’t close to each other. [/quote]

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