Anonymous
Post 04/24/2026 15:56     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Top private in NYC means Horace Mann, Trinity or Dalton. HM and Trinity haave similar class sizes (Dalton smaller, I think) so with 8 kids going to Pton, my guess would be either HM or Trinity.


HM is not top. Top are Trinity, Collegiate, Brearley. Then Dalton, Spence, Chapin, HM, Regis.


+1
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2026 11:31     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
This thread makes me so happy on DD’s choice of school. She made the right choice! (No not Princeton)
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 23:48     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.


What about Harvard and Yale?

Yale too, less frequent Harvard.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 23:47     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.


What kind of grades and ECs do these hooked kids have? FGLI kids? Unhooked kids?

Wouldn't assume they have bad grades or ECs, most likely the opposite considering the resources they have, for hooked kids. School doesn't rank.
FGLI should have good grades maybe rigor is not on the very top. Unhooked kids to Penn and Cornell in DC's circle, normal ECs occasionally national awards but not needed. Highest rigor.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 23:42     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:St. Albans sent 5 to Princeton last year.


Athletes and legacy.


Most only had 4.0s and near/or 1600s while being truly special at their sports …but you dismiss as per what you need to do to make you feel justified in your world of silly. Oh yeah, and a few of them also got into Harvard and Yale WITHOUT the sports component or legacy aspect. I guess those schools were just letting them in for sheets and giggles.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 22:36     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:Since Princeton is going back to test mandatory it won't have the ease and flexibility to evade SFFA. You'll see a shift in admissions pattern next year.


It won't be test required until the 27-28 cycle, so in two years.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 22:29     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves classics majors.
And ballet dancers.


so does columbia


I actually know a ballet dancer at Columbia. So this is the truth.


Yes to knowing ballet dancers at both Columbia and Princeton. Its big at both.


Yeap, a ballet dancer going to Columbia from our NYC private this year
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 22:12     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Since Princeton is going back to test mandatory it won't have the ease and flexibility to evade SFFA. You'll see a shift in admissions pattern next year.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 21:22     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves classics majors.
And ballet dancers.


so does columbia


I actually know a ballet dancer at Columbia. So this is the truth.


Yes to knowing ballet dancers at both Columbia and Princeton. Its big at both.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 21:02     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.


What kind of grades and ECs do these hooked kids have? FGLI kids? Unhooked kids?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 21:00     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.


What about Harvard and Yale?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 20:39     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 20:18     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves our nyc private high school. They always take 2-3 and sometimes more via questbridge. Almost all black or hispanic boys who aren't athletes but thrived (or really did well enough) at a PWI. That's in demand. We have more QB kids going to Princeton than any other college. MIT usually second.

Then we have the hooked kids: the famous last names (generational politician family or billionaire donors) followed by athletes with the grades. Legacy helps but it's not the tip the other two are.



What types of grades (like GPA, test scores) do these kids usually have? Do they have normal ECs or outstanding ECs?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 10:45     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Maybe it's a west coast thing - not seeing seeing Princeton on the HW or the Harker pages or some of the local privates in our area in SoCal. I wonder if it's a yield issue and they just don't take as many kids or they lose kids to Stanford and Harvard? Our west coast public is sending 2 this year, and it's a big deal.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 09:12     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Princeton loves our nyc private high school. They always take 2-3 and sometimes more via questbridge. Almost all black or hispanic boys who aren't athletes but thrived (or really did well enough) at a PWI. That's in demand. We have more QB kids going to Princeton than any other college. MIT usually second.

Then we have the hooked kids: the famous last names (generational politician family or billionaire donors) followed by athletes with the grades. Legacy helps but it's not the tip the other two are.