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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's clear.[/quote]

It’s really not; if you’re smart enough to keep up at Trinity, you can go to a lower tier private or a public school, be in the top 10% of your class, do 2 hours a night if homework instead of 4, use the extra 2 hours to pad out your extracurriculars and/or simply enjoy being a teenager, and have pretty much the same odds of getting into Harvard that you would have had at Trinity.

The “pressure cooker” thing is about internal competition - colleges don’t give you much credit for it, because most kids don’t go to those sorts of schools and can’t be faulted for not enduring a similar workload.[/quote]

So you’re saying for a really strong student, their odds of getting into Harvard are the same from Trinity as they are from Browning?[/quote]

no. not unless an athletic recruit. for athletes, there are reasons for going to an easier school [/quote]

Even if true, which I disagree with, is it worth it?  What is the end goal?  So you “succeed” at the pressure cooker and got into Harvard at the cost of mental health, time to develop socially, and time to experiment with interests.  Now what?  In what paths are you at an advantage vs an equally smart kid who went to, for sake of keeping a consistent example, Browning and then a non-Ivy top 25 college?  I guess the parents get to feel good that the “service” they paid for got them some Harvard merchandise?[/quote]

You do realize that, even though it’s hard, you still have time to develop interests and make friends. It’s not bootcamp (even though we kinda called the trinity history department that)

People get such melodramatic/romanticized ideas of what school was like. It’s funny [/quote]

Not sure your age, but, no, school was a joke for me and I mostly just messed around and still ended up at a top college, and I was hardly unique in that regard.  That’s not really the case today, at least for the junior level kids my firm hires (which includes sufficient sample size from TT nyc school).  The hoops you have to jump through are insane and non-productive long term.[/

You're not actually giving an opinion on high school experience based on the kids your firm hires, are you? Come on now. I’ll be the first to say that trinity is not a happy place. I worked constantly, was constantly stressed (wrote about it elsewhere on this site), went to a good school, and even said I’d think long and hard before sending my kid to trinity for high achool (my kiddo’s at Dalton). I won’t speak for other schools. But trinity wasn’t exactly a trauma farm, either. It’s a hard, demanding school. The social pressure is extraordinary, but that’s because New York is a place of extremes. most of us managed to pursue the things we wanted outside of school and if you wanted a normal high school experience, You could have it. The cost would be potentially losing out on a spot at a top school. That’s true everywhere. It’s ultimately just high school. Bear that in mind while writing delulu posts about the lack of character development you judged when hiring some hm kids or something.

This comes off way ruder than intended. It’s just weird having to dispel these weird, baseless opinions. [/quote]

But those are the only recent grads I know!  Small sample anecdotal evidence is the best, right?

But really, I arguing that Trinity to Harvard path is usually not worth it,  not that you can’t have a normal high school experience at Trinity.  We need to bring back valuing the “normal high school experience”.  So maybe my criticism is more about what Harvard and the like have become, not Trinity per se.[/quote]

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