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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mamdani went to Bank Street K-8, which has essentially the same tuition as Trinity.  As a former private K-8 parent, I suspect he went through both the private and public process, and Bronx Science was his best option (meaning he was rejected by Trinity, HM and more prestigious specialized high schools).  He went on to attend a very expensive college.[/quote]

I don’t know why you would assume he applied to academically selective private schools and didn’t get in - IIRC he gave a speech at one point as a student where he compared Bronx Science not with HM but with Fieldston, which is hardly a TT school academically but was nevertheless the first one he thought of. Not everybody wants an academic grind, or the school culture associated with it.

It may be that his parents were looking at progressive private high schools equivalent to Bank Street but didn’t find any to their liking and felt like saving a quarter million dollars by sending him to Bronx Science. Or it may be they didn’t even apply; I certainly know a bunch of families who left private schools for a specialized high school after 8th because they had a smart kid and felt like they’d do better there and - again - were happy to save the money.

Bronx Science and Stuy between them are I think like 3% of NYC public high school students, so the notion that he went to Bronx Science because it was the best he could do but that he was rebuffed by Horace Mann and Trinity - when he’s clearly a very personable guy with two famous parents and good enough standardized test scores to get into Bronx Science - doesn’t really pass the smell test.[/quote]

He very likely applied to Trinity and Collegiate for K since he was on the UWS. He probably tried to transfer in later too. Bank Street is nothing compared to them and strivers like his parents know that. He couldn’t hack it there if he ends up at Bowdoin as a black applicant. [/quote]

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