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[quote=Anonymous]People always seem to think that Spence is somehow less rigorous and more hierarchical than Chapin and Brearley, but I’m unsure how true that is - I only have personal connections with Spence. But that was the reputation when I was at Trinity: Spence is for the silly (actually a worse motto which i won’t leave here).

Along time ago that may have been true, but all three seem to be as competitive as the other. I would say still Spence does appear to have a student body which cares marginally more than about status and maybe a small fraction less about academic perfection, but again, I don’t have experience with the other two outside of reputation. I did spent tons of time with Spence girls in the 2000’s since my cousins were there when I was across town, and they all wound up at ivies, if that matters to anyone. And the Spence students I spent time with were uniformly lovely, sophisticated, intelligent, ambitious young women.

Also, Spence does seem to have an incredibly tightly knit community:  their Spence friends are still their best friends, and I can’t really say that about my Trinity classmates. However, I think that may be the case with the girls schools in general. [/quote]

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