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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back in my day (the 1980s), every Chapin girl had a brother at St. B’s and every St. B’s boy had a sister at Chapin- as they were the WASPiest schools. 
Spence and Buckley were also WASPy, but flashier money.
Brearley was half WASP half artsy Jewish girls from the UWS.
Allen-Stevenson - a mixture, skewed more Jewish.
st. David’s - Catholic
I went to NBS which had old and new money. Skewed more Waspy than Jewish
But on the whole, Jewish kids went to the coed schools. I’m an UES WASP who grew up 5 blocks from Dalton and didn’t know a single kid who went there.

But, times have changed.[/quote]

Why do you think that's the case... pure conjecture but very interesting to me as a jewish person[/quote]

I think it’s because, historically, the single sex schools were bastions of old school wasps. The boys schools, except Collegiate and Browning, all end at 8th/9th grade because the boys were presumed to go on to boarding school. The girls schools were basically finishing schools. And, no doubt, there was blatant discrimination in the admissions offices. My mother grew up in NYC in the 1950s, she was half Jewish and very smart, but was not accepted at Chapin, Brearley, NBS or Spence. [/quote]

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