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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This looks like a very specific DC Urban Moms / NYC private-school parent prestige ranking, not a ranking of current academic quality or where families are applying today.

A few things jump out immediately:

1. Trevor at #35 is wildly out of sync with current reality

That’s the biggest thing.

Whether someone loves Trevor or not, putting it:

* below Dwight
* below Calhoun
* below Lycée
* below UNIS
* below Xavier
* below Fordham Prep
* below Notre Dame

would surprise most people involved in Manhattan admissions today.

This feels like a ranking frozen around the early 2000s, when Trevor had a much weaker reputation.

2. Nightingale is too low

Nightingale at #14 is hard to justify.

Most current observers would place Nightingale closer to:

* Dalton
* Spence
* Chapin
* Sacred Heart

than to schools ranked 15–25.

3. Sacred Heart is too low

Same issue.

Many NYC families would rank Sacred Heart above:

* Marymount
* Grace Church
* Packer
* Poly
* Avenues

without much hesitation.

4. Avenues is probably too low

Avenues is polarizing, but #19 feels low.

Many current families would place it somewhere in the 10–15 range.

5. Grace Church is probably too low

Grace at #16 feels low given current demand and outcomes.

6. The top is mostly old-school prestige

The placement of:

* Trinity
* Collegiate
* Dalton
* Spence
* Brearley
* Horace Mann
* Chapin

is very much a traditional prestige ranking.

You can argue over the exact order, but that’s clearly the logic.

What the ranking is really measuring

If I had to guess, this ranking is measuring:

“If you gathered wealthy NYC private-school alumni aged 50–75 and asked them to rank schools by prestige.”

For that purpose, it actually makes sense.

That’s why:

* Trevor is #35.
* Grace is #16.
* Avenues is #19.
* Nightingale is #14.
* Sacred Heart is #13.

Those schools have improved dramatically relative to where they sat in the old hierarchy.

My biggest disagreement

If we’re talking 2025–2026 perception among active Manhattan parents, I’d probably move:

* Nightingale
* Sacred Heart
* Grace Church
* Avenues
* Trevor

Down

* Loyola (slightly)
* Xavier
* Notre Dame
* Dwight
* UNIS

The Trevor placement is the one that makes me think the list is mostly historical prestige. I could see reasonable people putting Trevor at #10, #15, even #20. But #35 says more about where Trevor was a generation ago than where it is today.

So my overall take is:

As a historical-prestige ranking: 8/10.
As a current-market Manhattan parent ranking: maybe 5/10.

The further down the list you go, the more it seems to undervalue schools whose reputations have risen in the last 10–20 years.[/quote]

I, too, can type a ranked list of schools into chatGPT and have it evaluate the order with a leading question of whether or not this prestige ranking is still current, and get a biased response based on my leading question. [/quote]

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