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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it more favors the middle class.  TJ can't light a candle to top private schools when you look holistically - even wealthy Asian parents know this and the rule is still true - if you can afford it, go private.  If you can't do the best public you can.

This means across all demographics- wealthy kids go to private; MC kids go to public - and if you can't afford the house you fight for the top application schools like TJ - which are still pretty crap.[/quote]

There is some truth to this I think.
When I try to reconcile the income disparity between stuyvesant and TJ it seems to me that there are several sources of this disparity.
One is the significantly higher FARM population in NYC.
Another is the near absence of a "middle class" in NYC because everyone moves to the suburbs unless they can easily afford college tuition levels of private school tuition, and the ones that can easily afford it will go to the selective private schools, frankly they are much easier to get into.
The last is the holistic element of the TJ application.  Money may improve test scores to a point but it most certainly improves extracurriculars, which almost by definition is costly.

But I don't think schools like TJ and Stuyvesant are crap.  
The peer group is more consistently competitive.  Private schools have legacy admissions and other admissions criteria that significantly dilutes the population.
They routinely score higher on standardized tests.
They routinely achieve more national awards and win more academic competitions.

But if you have the money to send your kid to trinity instead of stuyvesant, you should send your kid to trinity.[/quote]

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