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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd move Collegiate up to Tier 1. Really top of the top are Trinity, Brearley, Collegiate.

I'd move Regis up (it's a school where unhooked kids get into HYP) to Spence level.

St Ann's is not as desirable as it was even 3 years ago. [/quote]

What changed with St. Ann’s? [/quote]

The recent scandal I would imagine?  I would never send my children there after that.[/quote]

They fired everyone involved, the catfishing felon teacher took a deal and will be in prison for a few years - but that plus the suicide case profiled in the NYT turned me off completely. I don’t believe their college rates are good because it’s a good school at all at this point, I think it’s past reputation, legacy donations, and other ineffable things. It never had a rep for rigor or high intellectual activity, did it?[/quote]

St. Ann's is very artsy fartsy. Which is very attractive for some people. But I agree that it was never known for its academic rigor, and the recent situations have brought out into the open what it is. I am a Dem but I always found St. Ann's to be so performatively woke, and the effort to be super kind and forgiving to the horrible teacher blew up.

Ironically, I know a family that is now pretty Trumpy that sent their kid there, but the kid graduated pre-2015 so the world was a different place then.[/quote]
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The top students at St Ann's learn more than any student at any other school in NYC or possibly elsewhere.

The reason is that the no grades policy plus the very long school day (7:30-6:15 with no lunch, if you are crazy enough to try) allows the students to take huge numbers of extra academic subjects and electives without having to worry about doing perfectly in each class.  For self-motivated kids, this is perfect.  There are tests, but there are far more research papers and project based learning exercises.

The class isn't as big as at Dalton, and there are considerably fewer STEM types, so kids can and do run out of classes.

They used to cater more to prodigies -- e.g. a 2nd grader taking calculus, but I haven't seen many of those lately.

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