Anonymous
06/03/2026 08:43
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? if your DC is top 10% at CSH or Marymount, vs. top 70% at Brearley? TTs like Brearley is impossible to get into. You probably have a pretty good idea whether the kid is going to perform well at either tier of schools by the age of 10 or 12.
It's not going to be walk in the park to get top 10% at Marymount.
What does this mean?
it means that getting to be the top handful of girls in Marymount requires work and intelligence. People make it out to be that this stuff is all so easy to do.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 08:26
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? if your DC is top 10% at CSH or Marymount, vs. top 70% at Brearley? TTs like Brearley is impossible to get into. You probably have a pretty good idea whether the kid is going to perform well at either tier of schools by the age of 10 or 12.
It's not going to be walk in the park to get top 10% at Marymount.
If you live on the west side it is - how else would you get there?
Anonymous
06/03/2026 08:16
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? if your DC is top 10% at CSH or Marymount, vs. top 70% at Brearley? TTs like Brearley is impossible to get into. You probably have a pretty good idea whether the kid is going to perform well at either tier of schools by the age of 10 or 12.
It's not going to be walk in the park to get top 10% at Marymount.
What does this mean?
Anonymous
06/03/2026 07:59
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BSC and Nightingale all seem to be punching above their weight class here, perhaps because girls tend to be better at getting into college than boys.
All girls and tiny class—recipe for excellent eximission.
If your DD is okay with going to an all girls school - it is the best path to a very good college outcome.
It's probably the clearest thing of all the data that has been shown in that those tables.
Second would be that for college results going to private school is a very good ROI, no matter what the school.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 07:57
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Does it matter? if your DC is top 10% at CSH or Marymount, vs. top 70% at Brearley? TTs like Brearley is impossible to get into. You probably have a pretty good idea whether the kid is going to perform well at either tier of schools by the age of 10 or 12.
It's not going to be walk in the park to get top 10% at Marymount.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 07:55
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BSC and Nightingale all seem to be punching above their weight class here, perhaps because girls tend to be better at getting into college than boys.
How is Brearley punching above its weight class? Niche ranks it as the number one K-12 private in the nation.
Niche is useless ranking.
doesn't it have like 4 NYC SS schools in the top 10 in the country
Anonymous
06/02/2026 23:12
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Does it matter? if your DC is top 10% at CSH or Marymount, vs. top 70% at Brearley? TTs like Brearley is impossible to get into. You probably have a pretty good idea whether the kid is going to perform well at either tier of schools by the age of 10 or 12.
Anonymous
06/02/2026 20:26
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:It's tier 2. Along with Regis
Regis is really outperforming this year versus that historic table. But much less of their class has posted on instagram than the other schools, whatever that might mean. Why do we care so much about Regis?
The real surprises (versus vibes here) are that HM/Trinity aren't clumped with Dalton, Nightingale outperforms, Hunter underperforms, CSH, Marymount really underperform?
Anonymous
06/02/2026 20:14
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:BSC and Nightingale all seem to be punching above their weight class here, perhaps because girls tend to be better at getting into college than boys.
How is Brearley punching above its weight class? Niche ranks it as the number one K-12 private in the nation.
Anonymous
06/02/2026 20:12
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:BSC and Nightingale all seem to be punching above their weight class here, perhaps because girls tend to be better at getting into college than boys.
All girls and tiny class—recipe for excellent eximission.
Anonymous
06/02/2026 20:05
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
BSC and Nightingale all seem to be punching above their weight class here, perhaps because girls tend to be better at getting into college than boys.
Anonymous
06/02/2026 20:02
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
It's tier 2. Along with Regis
Anonymous
06/02/2026 19:13
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Original point of thread was Instagram though (we did historic data from schools because we all though Instagram was skewed/biased), so this is back to the 2026 Instagram Data - added the USN26+LAC10 because everyone wants more schools.
Definitions:
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt
WASP = Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + WASP
HYPSM = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT
USN26+LAC10 = U.S. News National Universities rank-through-#26 + U.S. News Liberal Arts Colleges rank-through-#10, including ties
School (N): Ivy+WASP; HYPSM; USN26+LAC10 | Instagram source
70+%
Brearley (52): 71%; 27%; 83% | @brearley26collegedecisions
60-70%
Spence (64): 64%; 19%; 83% | @spence26niors
Chapin (52): 62%; 12%; 79% | @chapin26decisions
50-60%
Dalton (63): 59%; 22%; 71% | @daltondecisions2026
40-50%
Saint Ann's (73): 49%; 10%; 67% | @saintannsseniors2026
Horace Mann (131): 49%; 5%; 63% | @maroonlions26
Trinity (109): 48%; 12%; 69% | @trindecisions2026
Regis (80): 45%; 8%; 68% | @regisdecisions2026
Nightingale (57): 42%; 2%; 61% | @nbs2enior6
Riverdale (131): 41%; 8%; 65% | @riv26seniors
30-40%
Hunter (123): 39%; 10%; 59% | @hawkscommit2026
Browning (27): 37%; 7%; 59% | @browningdecisions26
Packer (92): 30%; 3%; 48% | @packerseniors26
Fieldston (141): 30%; 9%; 46% | @fieldstonseniors2026
20-30%
Friends Seminary (40): 28%; 5%; 50% | @Fsclassof2026
CGPS (119): 27%; 3%; 48% | @lionsseniors2026
Dwight-Englewood (126): 25%; 6%; 37% | @deseniors2026
Avenues (97): 23%; 4%; 36% | @avenues_seniors; current-class posts since 2025-12-01
10-20%
Berkeley Carroll (77): 18%; 0%; 43% | @bcsseniors2026
Poly Prep (123): 18%; 2%; 38% | @polyprep26
Trevor (88): 18%; 1%; 31% | @trevor2eni6rs
Grace Church (80): 18%; 1%; 30% | @grace2026colleges
Sacred Heart (61): 16%; 3%; 30% | @csh2026decisions
Marymount (71): 11%; 1%; 31% | @mmt26collegewall
Brooklyn Friends (49): 10%; 0%; 14% | @bfsclassof26
Tell me again how SA is not TT…
Anonymous
06/02/2026 17:21
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Original point of thread was Instagram though (we did historic data from schools because we all though Instagram was skewed/biased), so this is back to the 2026 Instagram Data - added the USN26+LAC10 because everyone wants more schools.
Definitions:
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt
WASP = Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + WASP
HYPSM = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT
USN26+LAC10 = U.S. News National Universities rank-through-#26 + U.S. News Liberal Arts Colleges rank-through-#10, including ties
School (N): Ivy+WASP; HYPSM; USN26+LAC10 | Instagram source
70+%
Brearley (52): 71%; 27%; 83% | @brearley26collegedecisions
60-70%
Spence (64): 64%; 19%; 83% | @spence26niors
Chapin (52): 62%; 12%; 79% | @chapin26decisions
50-60%
Dalton (63): 59%; 22%; 71% | @daltondecisions2026
40-50%
Saint Ann's (73): 49%; 10%; 67% | @saintannsseniors2026
Horace Mann (131): 49%; 5%; 63% | @maroonlions26
Trinity (109): 48%; 12%; 69% | @trindecisions2026
Regis (80): 45%; 8%; 68% | @regisdecisions2026
Nightingale (57): 42%; 2%; 61% | @nbs2enior6
Riverdale (131): 41%; 8%; 65% | @riv26seniors
30-40%
Hunter (123): 39%; 10%; 59% | @hawkscommit2026
Browning (27): 37%; 7%; 59% | @browningdecisions26
Packer (92): 30%; 3%; 48% | @packerseniors26
Fieldston (141): 30%; 9%; 46% | @fieldstonseniors2026
20-30%
Friends Seminary (40): 28%; 5%; 50% | @Fsclassof2026
CGPS (119): 27%; 3%; 48% | @lionsseniors2026
Dwight-Englewood (126): 25%; 6%; 37% | @deseniors2026
Avenues (97): 23%; 4%; 36% | @avenues_seniors; current-class posts since 2025-12-01
10-20%
Berkeley Carroll (77): 18%; 0%; 43% | @bcsseniors2026
Poly Prep (123): 18%; 2%; 38% | @polyprep26
Trevor (88): 18%; 1%; 31% | @trevor2eni6rs
Grace Church (80): 18%; 1%; 30% | @grace2026colleges
Sacred Heart (61): 16%; 3%; 30% | @csh2026decisions
Marymount (71): 11%; 1%; 31% | @mmt26collegewall
Brooklyn Friends (49): 10%; 0%; 14% | @bfsclassof26
Definitions:
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt
WASP = Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + WASP
HYPSM = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT
USN26+LAC10 = U.S. News National Universities rank-through-#26 + U.S. News Liberal Arts Colleges rank-through-#10, including ties
School (N): Ivy+WASP; HYPSM; USN26+LAC10 | Instagram source
70+%
Brearley (52): 71%; 27%; 83% | @brearley26collegedecisions
60-70%
Spence (64): 64%; 19%; 83% | @spence26niors
Chapin (52): 62%; 12%; 79% | @chapin26decisions
50-60%
Dalton (63): 59%; 22%; 71% | @daltondecisions2026
40-50%
Saint Ann's (73): 49%; 10%; 67% | @saintannsseniors2026
Horace Mann (131): 49%; 5%; 63% | @maroonlions26
Trinity (109): 48%; 12%; 69% | @trindecisions2026
Regis (80): 45%; 8%; 68% | @regisdecisions2026
Nightingale (57): 42%; 2%; 61% | @nbs2enior6
Riverdale (131): 41%; 8%; 65% | @riv26seniors
30-40%
Hunter (123): 39%; 10%; 59% | @hawkscommit2026
Browning (27): 37%; 7%; 59% | @browningdecisions26
Packer (92): 30%; 3%; 48% | @packerseniors26
Fieldston (141): 30%; 9%; 46% | @fieldstonseniors2026
20-30%
Friends Seminary (40): 28%; 5%; 50% | @Fsclassof2026
CGPS (119): 27%; 3%; 48% | @lionsseniors2026
Dwight-Englewood (126): 25%; 6%; 37% | @deseniors2026
Avenues (97): 23%; 4%; 36% | @avenues_seniors; current-class posts since 2025-12-01
10-20%
Berkeley Carroll (77): 18%; 0%; 43% | @bcsseniors2026
Poly Prep (123): 18%; 2%; 38% | @polyprep26
Trevor (88): 18%; 1%; 31% | @trevor2eni6rs
Grace Church (80): 18%; 1%; 30% | @grace2026colleges
Sacred Heart (61): 16%; 3%; 30% | @csh2026decisions
Marymount (71): 11%; 1%; 31% | @mmt26collegewall
Brooklyn Friends (49): 10%; 0%; 14% | @bfsclassof26
Anonymous
06/02/2026 17:16
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why are there 10 ivies for Regis in the above calculation?
I think someone is using AI
I looked up. Last 4 years, 40 Regis kids enrolled at Columbia and Cornell alone.
I'm the table-creating poster - I didn't post the Regis post. Since there's so much Regis interest, here's the breakdown:
Regis source: https://regis.org/about/
Regis official 2022-2025 aggregate: N=521
Summary:
HYPSM: 29/521 = 5.6%
Ivy+WASP: 128/521 = 24.6%
USN26+LAC10: 226/521 = 43.4%
HYPSM
Princeton University — 12
Yale University — 7
Harvard University — 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 3
Stanford University — 1
Cumulative after HYPSM: 29/521 = 5.6%
Rest of Ivy+WASP
Cornell University — 24
Columbia University — 16
University of Pennsylvania — 12
Williams College — 12
University of Chicago — 10
Duke University — 6
Brown University — 5
Northwestern University — 5
California Institute of Technology — 2
Dartmouth College — 2
Johns Hopkins University — 2
Vanderbilt University — 2
Pomona College — 1
Cumulative after Ivy+WASP: 128/521 = 24.6%
Rest of USN26+LAC10
Georgetown University — 36
University of Notre Dame — 24
Emory University — 8
Carnegie Mellon University — 5
Rice University — 5
University of Virginia — 5
United States Military Academy — 3
United States Naval Academy — 3
University of Michigan — 3
Washington University in St. Louis — 2
Carleton College — 1
Harvey Mudd College — 1
United States Air Force Academy — 1
University of California, Berkeley — 1
Cumulative after USN26+LAC10: 226/521 = 43.4%