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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The view of all these private schools filled with hooked kids is flawed.  Some rich families, FGLI, POC, definitely there.  But our experience leads us to believe that the number is much lower that the inflated percentage mentioned.

Looking at Spence for this year - 54 girls have public posts - my guess is that's around 85% of the class give or take.
The list is below.  Taking out the HYP or bust mentality (which is silly) - it appears to me that 48/54 girls are going to a pretty decent school. 
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You are very generous with your views of a decent school.  The discussion should also consider the alternative of attending a top public school instead. If Cornell and Columbia are easily achievable from public, why would anyone be impressed with Spence’s results. [/quote]

PP here - you are very generous with you comment of "easily achievable" regarding Columbia and Cornell.  I believe Columbia has a sub 5% acceptance rate.

what are some top public schools you are speaking about?   The suburban schools like Manhasset, Summit, Rye?  Or top city schools like BS, Stuy?

Stuy/BS are excellent free top public schools with very good outcomes - especially across board, including kids getting full rides to schools.  It's just a different learning environment.  Many of the kids there are impressive.

The suburban schools have okay results but it's extremely competitive.  And for many living in the suburbs isn't what they want so it's not a realistic option.

At the end of the day, your child has to get into a school (if not going to the local suburban public school) and you have to decide if the financial cost is worth it to your family to send to a private school.  If the Spence (or any other schools) exmissions don't impress you and the education isn't worth spending the $$, then go to the top public school.  There are enough people willing to pay to to the TT schools in nyc.

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I am referencing Stuy/BS/Hunter. If your family is spending $100k a year on education (tutors, college counselor, extracurricular, etc..) you are going to out resource many families compared to TT private. [/quote]

I doubt most families are spending an incremental $30k on tutors, CC, EC - i know we are not.

but anyway those are the 3 top public schools in nyc.  It's not easy to get into them.

one could argue that it's best to send your kids to one of these schools (assuming they get in) and then spend $25k a year on other items and have a good college outcome.  perhaps that is your point.

for us, we didn't feel like those schools would be right for both of our kids.  we prefer the smaller class sizes versus the larger grades/classes.   one kid would have done fine but we didn't want to do the 1 public 1 private thing.

i am pretty sure that the majority of the kids in those 3 schools would do well academically at a private school.[/quote]

Private school tuition is ~$70k + fundraising. I am still curious what giving a lot of money at the gala will get you. [/quote]

We give $2k a year.   That won't get us access to the special treatment that is for sure.

Curious - what factors lead you to the decision (assumption on my part) to forgo Private for one of the three top private schools?   was it completely value for $$? or something else?  was private a realistic option?

for elementary school we made the value for $ decision and decided public was a better choice.  Financially it would have been possible but not a easy decision - so that factored into the decision.

we are happy with the path we took.[/quote]

We are at a private K-8 and figuring out the HS options. Most of my friends and colleagues did public. The traditional pipeline was accelerated G&T -> Hunter/Stuy/BT/BS -> Ivy+.

If we go private for HS it will be about given the child a sweet experience rather than being naive in thinking it about college admissions.

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Do many people go from private k-8 to public?  We did the citywide G&T to private.  The much more common route was G&T to Stuy/BS/hunter.

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No and the people who did would mention wanting a more STEM focused school rather than college admissions. [/quote]

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