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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basic take on tiers of private schools:

If $70k/year is a significant burden to you and you don't qualify for financial aid, your kid is almost certainly better off going to public school - even compared to a "TT" private where they would be one of the poor/unconnected kids - and having you use the ~$1.5M or so with interest that you saved to buy them their first house/apartment and start them off with a healthy savings account.

If $70k/year is something you can afford easily, going to Trevor or CGPS or Calhoun or LREI or Dwight or whatever is not likely to be *worse* for them then public school, and having a nice clean building with small class sizes and somebody to call about every little problem is a nice luxury.[/quote]

Honestly I wouldn’t even put Trevor next to CGPS or LREI. Those have at least served long standing niches and communities. Trevor is a joke given how many better 3T schools there are close by. [/quote]

I wasn't trying to make any sort of point about Trevor specifically but simply to say that even <insert whatever school you think is particularly mediocre here> will be fine for your kid if you have enough money not to care about the tuition.[/quote]

The problem is, people with that sort of money get into TTs and 2Ts so long as the kid is passable and the parents aren’t jerks. Schools like Trevor attract the least desirable applicant families who fit the “enough money not to care” criteria [/quote]

Not really. It actually has a lot of normal, down-to-earth families who don't want the drama of TT schools and want to avoid the opinionated jerks like the one who has derailed this thread. Particularly at the HS level. I actually do agree that for elementary I would probably pick PS9, 87, 199, etc.

Check out their 2026 IG page. It isn't TT but it is pretty good - Princeton and a bunch of Cornell, Penn, Hopkins, etc. I'm sure the snobs here will criticize it because it isn't all HYPS but that is not trash.[/quote]

The cross admits of a TT and Trevor-like schools go with the TT 99% of the time. If you knew how first choice letters work and brokering applicants, you’d know this. Trevor has a TON of flashy jerks in sports cars and houses out East too. They have worse pedigrees and personalities and can’t get into a TT because of that.

Got it, a couple good college acceptances. Go compare the median of Trevor with Trinity. lol [/quote]

Did anyone say Trevor is better than Trinity? Nope. Please just stop. You are a pathetic child. You don't like Trevor. Got it. Move on. So sad. You are kind of actually making me like it more. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.[/quote]

Actually, some posters say Trevor is better because you can avoid TT competition. The pathetic children are those who go to Trevor.

Go ahead, spend over a million with expected tuition increases on Trevor. An idiot is swindled every day. They’ll gladly take your money and don’t have a line out the door like the 2Ts [/quote]

You are calling children pathetic? Speaking of pathetic...[/quote]

Yep. Paying a fortune to avoid all those awful BIPOC students in the public schools they fear. That is why Trevor exists. It is a white flight school [/quote]

I have first hand experience with both PS 9 and 199 - two of the whitest schools in the system. Private schools are usually way more diverse than the neighboring PSes. [/quote]

Whether they are or not doesn’t matter, it’s the perception. And parents sending kids to Dwight and Trevor would rather pay a fortune for worse academics (yes, much worse and less rigorous) because they view the publics as low class and “ghetto”[/quote]

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