Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 19:25     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is also true at highly-ranked public high schools though


There are retests, GPA weighting, and lack of rigor in every public school that doesn’t require entrance exams. Scarsdale has plenty of illiterates.

Regarding SAT averages, many at Scarsdale don’t take it because they don’t go to college or attend test optional junior colleges. At HM this would be unheard of.


364 out of 370 took either the SAT or the ACT, and 99% of them went on to a 4-year college, so no. I'm sorry you feel so threatened by the fact that an extremely wealthy town full of extremely smart people puts up numbers similar to your precious titi schools, but it does.


Nope. Look at the matriculation. Scarsdale’s is a joke and not TT
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 19:20     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is also true at highly-ranked public high schools though


There are retests, GPA weighting, and lack of rigor in every public school that doesn’t require entrance exams. Scarsdale has plenty of illiterates.

Regarding SAT averages, many at Scarsdale don’t take it because they don’t go to college or attend test optional junior colleges. At HM this would be unheard of.


364 out of 370 took either the SAT or the ACT, and 99% of them went on to a 4-year college, so no. I'm sorry you feel so threatened by the fact that an extremely wealthy town full of extremely smart people puts up numbers similar to your precious titi schools, but it does.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 19:18     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Average SAT score for Horace Mann: 1426
Average SAT score for SHS: 1399

Despite the "grueling and onerous" admissions process for the former and the fact that the latter lets in all of Scarsdale's many broke drug addicts


You do realize HM accepts a ton of poor kids and DEI admits? It weighs down the averages significantly.



Because poor kids are dumb? This is such elitest BS.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 19:15     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:This is also true at highly-ranked public high schools though


There are retests, GPA weighting, and lack of rigor in every public school that doesn’t require entrance exams. Scarsdale has plenty of illiterates.

Regarding SAT averages, many at Scarsdale don’t take it because they don’t go to college or attend test optional junior colleges. At HM this would be unheard of.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:32     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:This is also true at highly-ranked public high schools though


I'm not the person arguing otherwise. The difference, I suppose, is that the class composition is going to be different so it's hard to compare. HM has much more control over that, and the kids are generally high-achievers with very few exceptions.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:27     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
This is also true at highly-ranked public high schools though
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:24     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
I have a senior at HM. The work load is significant, and the classes are rigorous. There are no retests, GPAs are not weighted, and there are high expectations for these kids. You have to earn your As.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:20     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You just said they "give out A's from a pez dispenser" so which is it? (and do you seriously think "broke, sociopathic misfits" are a significant portion of the student body in *Scarsdale*?)


If you show up and do your homework you’ll get good grades at any public high school. That is far from the case at Horace Mann, maybe you get a B- A lot of public school students are neurodiverse or have parents who don’t care about education. Almost no one from either category ends up at Trinity. They are counseled out or never interviewed in the first place. Billionaires are smart, so are their children. They go to TTs in the city.


Please stop.


Sorry your child’s school is free.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:19     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:"Scarsdale is for normies" this is a bit, right? Like out of all of the NYC suburbs Scarsdale is quite possibly the single town this description applies to the least.


Try Matinecock or Bronxville or the better parts of Greenwich.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:17     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
"Scarsdale is for normies" this is a bit, right? Like out of all of the NYC suburbs Scarsdale is quite possibly the single town this description applies to the least.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:15     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You just said they "give out A's from a pez dispenser" so which is it? (and do you seriously think "broke, sociopathic misfits" are a significant portion of the student body in *Scarsdale*?)


If you show up and do your homework you’ll get good grades at any public high school. That is far from the case at Horace Mann, maybe you get a B- A lot of public school students are neurodiverse or have parents who don’t care about education. Almost no one from either category ends up at Trinity. They are counseled out or never interviewed in the first place. Billionaires are smart, so are their children. They go to TTs in the city.


Please stop.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:15     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:An A- is a horrible grade at a public school. This isn’t apples to apples.


So HM and Scarsdale have similar grade distributions and similar SAT scores but the A- in Scarsdale is a "horrible grade" while the HM one is a special rare thing you only get if you're a super-genius who works really hard for it? (and are rich and white?)


Look, Scarsdale is for normies. If you want an overweight wife, a heavily mortgaged ranch house, and a gaudy SUV in the suburbs then go for it. Don’t act like a TT and the families that patronize them aren’t a far superior education and set of people.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:14     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You do realize HM accepts a ton of poor kids and DEI admits? It weighs down the averages significantly.


Wow, talk about telling on yourself. And this comes out n a discussion comparing HM to *Scarsdale*?

Also, do you seriously think that the "poor kids" earning a free ride at a TT school are dummies?


Yes, pretty much.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:13     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:An A- is a horrible grade at a public school. This isn’t apples to apples.


So HM and Scarsdale have similar grade distributions and similar SAT scores but the A- in Scarsdale is a "horrible grade" while the HM one is a special rare thing you only get if you're a super-genius who works really hard for it? (and are rich and white?)
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:11     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:You do realize HM accepts a ton of poor kids and DEI admits? It weighs down the averages significantly.


Wow, talk about telling on yourself. And this comes out n a discussion comparing HM to *Scarsdale*?

Also, do you seriously think that the "poor kids" earning a free ride at a TT school are dummies?