Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brearley usually has most HYPSM admits per student in nyc. Then Trinity/Collegiate/Regis/Dalton/HM is race for second.

Riverdale has really strong matriculation nowadays - rivals or is better than Horace Mann. But I know someone who was completely unhooked but really strong student at one of these schools - probably top 20% and ended up at Vassar. It’s the hooks that makes the admissions, not the school.

Can you say which school?

Not the PP but here's a guess:

Brearley
Chapin
Collegiate
Dalton
Fieldston
Horace Mann
Riverdale
Spence
Trinity

I'm probably missing one but that's pretty much the list.

Anonymous wrote:Chapin decisions:
https://instagram.com/chapin23decisions?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

They all seem a bit too young to me.

Anonymous wrote:Mclean HS has three into Harvard this year. While 3 is less than 8 (I am a genius), some years things do work out for some schools.

Link?

Anonymous wrote:DC was a "lifer" who graduated from Trinity. We are not billionaires nor are we well-connected or Prep for prep as common wisdom would have it. The academics at Trinity are intense, probably too intense, such that a GPA of 3.6 is considered really good. All classes are essentially taught at the college level. Not sure I would put my DC through it if we had to do it all over again.

What college did DC go to?

Anonymous wrote:All the Dalton guys I went to school with were d—cks.

Right? D-bag central. Making a point to never hire Harvard, Princeton, Penn undergrads from NY. Spoiled. Entitled. Goodbye

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friends daughter is on the list. Even though she had already completed K elsewhere, they would only admit her for K. Many of these schools have a June 1 cutoff for K, redshirting is very common for girls and boys bc money is not an issue vs rushing to start free K in a public school.

+1. My daughter is one of the youngest in her class…her birthday is April 28.

My kids both go to the TT schools in NYC, they started in sixth grade and have late July and August birthdays. By 6th they don't care about the age as much, but some kids are a 1.5 years older than my kids. Lot of wealth in the schools but the wealthy don't flaunt their wealth much. We are immigrants who came to the US for Masters and did well in Finance, there are many families in which both parents work in addition to the uber rich families.

Anonymous wrote:My friends daughter is on the list. Even though she had already completed K elsewhere, they would only admit her for K. Many of these schools have a June 1 cutoff for K, redshirting is very common for girls and boys bc money is not an issue vs rushing to start free K in a public school.

+1. My daughter is one of the youngest in her class…her birthday is April 28.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC was a "lifer" who graduated from Trinity. We are not billionaires nor are we well-connected or Prep for prep as common wisdom would have it. The academics at Trinity are intense, probably too intense, such that a GPA of 3.6 is considered really good. All classes are essentially taught at the college level. Not sure I would put my DC through it if we had to do it all over again.

Was the college placement worth it?

I’m sure they attended for reasons unrelated to that

Mclean HS has three into Harvard this year. While 3 is less than 8 (I am a genius), some years things do work out for some schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The private schools in nyc have much better college results than local private schools, for sure. Not just Dalton, but HM and Collegiate and Brearley and on and on.

And you can make all the arguments re: privates vs publics.

But what accounts for top publics in NYC doing so much better than the top publics here?

Economic diversity. A kid in NYC top public is more likely to be first gen because most schools are not zoned, so there is no requirement to buy into a specific area in irder to attend a top public school.

there must be twice as many people in NYC than in the DC metro area. And they all get sifted into a few schools. if you pulled the top kids from this entire metro area and put them in one school, it'd do pretty well too.

Anonymous wrote:DC was a "lifer" who graduated from Trinity. We are not billionaires nor are we well-connected or Prep for prep as common wisdom would have it. The academics at Trinity are intense, probably too intense, such that a GPA of 3.6 is considered really good. All classes are essentially taught at the college level. Not sure I would put my DC through it if we had to do it all over again.

Was the college placement worth it?

Anonymous wrote:The private schools in nyc have much better college results than local private schools, for sure. Not just Dalton, but HM and Collegiate and Brearley and on and on.

And you can make all the arguments re: privates vs publics.

But what accounts for top publics in NYC doing so much better than the top publics here?

Economic diversity. A kid in NYC top public is more likely to be first gen because most schools are not zoned, so there is no requirement to buy into a specific area in irder to attend a top public school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brearley usually has most HYPSM admits per student in nyc. Then Trinity/Collegiate/Regis/Dalton/HM is race for second.

Riverdale has really strong matriculation nowadays - rivals or is better than Horace Mann. But I know someone who was completely unhooked but really strong student at one of these schools - probably top 20% and ended up at Vassar. It’s the hooks that makes the admissions, not the school.

Can you say which school?

DC was a "lifer" who graduated from Trinity. We are not billionaires nor are we well-connected or Prep for prep as common wisdom would have it. The academics at Trinity are intense, probably too intense, such that a GPA of 3.6 is considered really good. All classes are essentially taught at the college level. Not sure I would put my DC through it if we had to do it all over again.

Anonymous wrote:All the Dalton guys I went to school with were d—cks.

Duh. I lived in a hall with a girl from Chapin my freshman year of college and she didn't talk to anyone except for the girl from Greenwich... lol. Like... she wouldn't even acknowledge you if you said hi. It was so strange.