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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academically Hunter is better than most privates and equal to the very top privates (Trinity, Horace Mann).  The students at Hunter are on average smarter than the students at the privates. Hunter kids get into better colleges.  Ask the private you are considering for their college stats only for kids applying to college through the normal admission process—no legacies, no kids of famous people, no kids from families able to build libraries and no recruited athletes. When you compare those college admissions stats (and some schools will provide them) to Hunters, Hunter is ahead by a wide margin.

At a private school, your kid will have more individual support and more social support.  The facility will be nicer. In early years it will be easier for your child to socialize with classmates because most will have nannys or SHMs. At Hunter many will go to aftercare and will live far away. Your kid probably will be more well rounded and better socialized coming out of a private school and, assuming it is a TT private, will get an education equivalent to Hunter or one that’s only a little worse. Also, some of the TT privates are not as intense as Hunter.  Hunter is a pressure cooker like Horace Mann or Trinity in the HS grades. At a private, your kid likely will graduate with a better network. It doesn’t surprise me that the other poster said their family was more comfortable at Dalton. One parent with a kid at a TT private and another kid at a v good public (not Hunter) said that at the private school he was a client and at the public he was a taxpayer.  That’s accurate. [/quote]

different poster, but great answer.[/quote]

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