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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]but anyway those are the 3 top public schools in nyc.  It's not easy to get into them.[/quote]

A typical grade cohort in NYC is around 60,000, so between Hunter's 200 and BS/Stuy's 750 each we're talking around the top 3% of kids. (maybe a touch more if you throw in HSMSE)

Which is not an *easy* lift, but if your kid is getting the ISEE 8's and 9's needed to interest Trinity or Brearley or HM as an unconnected kid (note that the percentiles on those are relative to other ISEE test takers and not the general population), they can probably also do well enough on the SHSAT or Hunter Test to get into one of those top public schools.[/quote]

being top 3% is impressive. It's not easy.  but i understand your point.

I question if it's that hard to get into these private schools as an unconnected kid.  we have 1 in what is considered TT and 1 in 2T.  We are not a connected family at all.  We are like the thousands of generic "upper middle class" manhattan families - dual income making $500-1mm a year.[/quote]
it may feel generic, but if you make >$500k/yr in nyc, you are within 3% of the city's top-earning households.   :twisted: [/quote]  "upper middle class" in quotes.

are you in the top 10% of families in manhattan with 500k?  [/quote]
it's snobbish to say manhattan south of 96th street.

that use to be the term people used in the past
"Manhattan" is way too broad. Because their are a lot of people living in the upper half/third of Manhattan who are way below that who would weigh down the averages.[/quote][/quote]

It's not snobbish. It's a fact. The financial status of those in upper Manhattan is dramatically different than UES, UWS, etc. And I'm guessing that when the OP posed the question they were not factoring that in. That does not make those people better or worse. Just a fact of life. Lighten up.[/quote]

Yep. Almost no full pay family would be caught dead buying their residence north of 96th[/quote]

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