Anonymous
02/04/2026 16:14
Subject: How do Spence, Brearley, Dalton, Chapin, Trinity, and Nightingale differ in terms of student body
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s significantly easier post pandemic to get into most of these schools. Nightingale just revealed its admissions stats and it’s like 35%.
Chapin and Spence let in 5-10 girls at middle school entry point. Not easy.
My guess is that person was talking about K admissions. I do agree MS admissions is much more competitive because there are less spots.
Anonymous
02/04/2026 15:47
Subject: How do Spence, Brearley, Dalton, Chapin, Trinity, and Nightingale differ in terms of student body
Anonymous wrote:It’s significantly easier post pandemic to get into most of these schools. Nightingale just revealed its admissions stats and it’s like 35%.
Chapin and Spence let in 5-10 girls at middle school entry point. Not easy.
Anonymous
08/07/2025 17:34
Subject: How do Spence, Brearley, Dalton, Chapin, Trinity, and Nightingale differ in terms of student body
Anonymous wrote:early action offered to siblings and legacies
Sorry, is this done at most schools? We have one kid at a TT private and were looking to apply there for the other one next year, there’s an earlier application deadline for sibling admits but nothing on the admissions website suggests that we’ll get an earlier decision. (Would be great if we did, since we could potentially save on application fees / paperwork for a bunch of other places assuming he gets in)
Yes. ISAAGNY has an early notification date. Not sure how many schools actually participate in this but it is a decent amount, though I think each school does it slightly differently.
https://www.isaagny.org/isaagny-schools/notification-and-reply-dates
Anonymous
08/07/2025 17:29
Subject: How do Spence, Brearley, Dalton, Chapin, Trinity, and Nightingale differ in terms of student body
early action offered to siblings and legacies
Sorry, is this done at most schools? We have one kid at a TT private and were looking to apply there for the other one next year, there’s an earlier application deadline for sibling admits but nothing on the admissions website suggests that we’ll get an earlier decision. (Would be great if we did, since we could potentially save on application fees / paperwork for a bunch of other places assuming he gets in)
Anonymous
08/07/2025 11:46
Subject: How do Spence, Brearley, Dalton, Chapin, Trinity, and Nightingale differ in terms of student body
If Nightingale had a 54% yield rate at K, that means their actual yield rate for unconnected students is even lower. Very interesting data.
Assume that 15 slots are filled via early action offered to siblings and legacies - that means they really making 75 offers to yield 34 from the regular acceptance cycles (for early cycle you have to commit to a yes if you get the accept).
Assume that 15 slots are filled via early action offered to siblings and legacies - that means they really making 75 offers to yield 34 from the regular acceptance cycles (for early cycle you have to commit to a yes if you get the accept).
Anonymous
08/07/2025 09:10
Subject: How do Spence, Brearley, Dalton, Chapin, Trinity, and Nightingale differ in terms of student body
Anonymous wrote:Can you add a few more schools?
Add more schools to what? What schools?
Anonymous
08/07/2025 06:40
Subject: How do Spence, Brearley, Dalton, Chapin, Trinity, and Nightingale differ in terms of student body
Anonymous wrote:and school culture?
Are some more progressive; some more traditional?
I've been reading a lot of NYC Upper East Side mom novels lately (fun! trashy!) and I'd love to just understand the landscape more.
I know GOOP went to Spence.
Most people have kids in one of these schools not all. How would anyone be able to compare? At best a family has kids at 2. There is no way to do this math. Way too many varables