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Anonymous wrote:I heard Trinity in NYC this year has 9 kids going to Brown? that's wild!

NYC kids are typically very impressive and often with hooks too. I think there are 6-8 girls at The Spence School going to Harvard this year out of a class of 60! Half of Brearley’s class is going to Ivies + Stanford & MIT. Saint Ann’s, Dalton, Hunter, Stuyvesant all have excellent outcomes too. Nothing new there. These are their results (almost) every year.

Almost everyone of these have $50k-100k per year counselors right from 8th grade.

No, they do not. The schools themselves provide the college counseling. I personally know a kid well at one of the privates going to HYPSM with zero outside help. What he does have is 1580 on the SAT that he got at one sitting the summer before his junior year, a 3.95 GPA and a niche major that is his true interest and intended course of study.
The rigor at those schools is insane. Their students are extremely well prepared for college and do very well.

Colin Jost went there before going to Harvard. He wrote about it in his memoir.
Don’t let these schools totally fool you. These kids are not infinitely more impressive or working infinitely harder than dc kids. I know many. They have hooks well beyond just run of the mill legacy. Many have real f’u $ and many do hire private counselors.

They aren’t sending 8 a class to Yale bc they are working these kids harder and colleges are impressed by the rigor.

Private school kids are not smarter, nor are they more impressive. It's not really about the hooks, though, for the majority of the class getting into T20. Their schools are feeders that don't focus on testing (some of these schools don't even have grades). Instead, they focus on the whole person, often hyper-focused on intellectual independence, creativity, and curiosity, which creates strong analytic thinkers with strong communication skills. That is the difference.

- signed non-DMV private school parent

I was referring the ny private schools and the poster saying there were better trained etc. and more impressive kids at those schools. Apparently, I didn’t link to correct post. those kids have outsized performance from dc kids more bc of the family they were born into more than that Dalton or Trinity is so much better than St Albans or Sidwell.

The education between public and private has been debated at length so no need for me to retread there.

But those nyc private school kids are hooked. Just as hooked when we hire them at my finance firm.

+1. The advantages of the connections permeate high school, college, employment beyond college. Anyone at one of these elite colleges watches this go on

I think regis is the opposite of st Ann’s. Not a very connected population and no outside counselors, but a very rigorous, traditional education. They do pretty well!

https://www.instagram.com/regisdecisions2025?igsh=MTFpZGMxcmpoc2l5dQ==

Never heard of it