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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dalton, Trinity, Horace Mann, Fieldston, and St. Ann's are the best private schools. Some would also toss Brearley and Collegiate in there. A new money child will need IQ scores in the top 2-3% to get in, though, unless you are a celebrity. Cast a wide net to include Columbia Grammar, Berkeley Carroll, Brooklyn Friends, Riverdale Country, Little Red Schoolhouse/ ELizabeth Irwin etc.

Skip Birch Wathen Lenox.

The public magnets, like Hunter, Anderson, and Stuyvesant may be better schools in terms of peer group brainpower.[/quote]

///How do these schools screen "new money"? I'm contemplating applying for kid for 1st grade, and she's within top 1% based on IQ score. We have the money to afford tuition. Curious how these schools screen and whether we're potentially aiming to enter at a decent entry point.[/quote]

Entering any of these highly sought after schools in an off year- such as first grade- is next to impossible unless you are an A list celebrity[/quote]

Tina Fey was able to get her DDs into one of these schools partly due to rec letters from Lorne Michaels, whose daughter went to the same school. Similar story with Drew Barrymore’s DD’s. They’re Ari Kopelman’s granddaughters.

That’s what you’re up against OP[/quote]

True story. They are both at my DD’s school. [/quote]

That Tina Fey needed rec letters for her kids at all is insane. She's TINA FREAKING FEY! [/quote]

It's just BS to maintain the pretense. [/quote]

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