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[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]

Public school mom here. Skip the public Citywides (Anderson, NESTm), which now just have lottery admissions and have essentially been scalped by the DOE (NESTm has a nice high school but it is not "gifted" - they're actually better known for special ed support). Hunter & Stuy are filled with brainiacs but are brutally competitive and offer virtually no college support. If I had endless resources I'd choose a private K-12.[/quote]

+1. If your only goal is to get your kid into a great college - public school is totally sufficient and schools like Hunter and Stuy very regularly send massive quantities of children to ivy leagues. With private K-12, your college outcome might not be different but your kid will be more well-spoken and a bit more equipped for coastal elite life. [/quote]

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