Anonymous wrote:One dalton kid has parent on board of HYP and donated a center in their name

These schools are also taking 15-20% of kids who are first gen - so they are walking the walk but the ROI on these NYC kids is pretty good

One family did the former, another family did the latter.

Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

These TT private schools are hard. They're no joke. A grind that a lot of parents don't want for their kids. Kids who enter in younger grades are often counseled out long before HS. You can apply to get in for MS and then again for HS. But truthfully, they don't take a kid for HS unless they're extraordinary (ie know they won't have issues placing them for college).

Not sure of numbers now, but acceptance rates into these top NYC privates are single digits. Hooked helps, that's true. At privates. Not true at Regis, Stuy, Hunter, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not upset with the kids or their parents, they have figured out the system and are playing the game. What I find appalling is the elite colleges who claim to want socioeconomic diversity, racial diversity, cultural diversity, regional diversity, etc etc, but then take all these kids from one school. An elite upper class private in NYC.

Wealthy, smart kids concentrate in the same place. What did you expect?

That the colleges practice what they preach and select kids from other schools. There is no way these kids are any different in their abilities, extra-curriculars, interests, grades, or character than a lot of other kids at different schools.

Billionaire kids getting access to private tutors since elementary school, and anything else they want, maybe are different?

Anonymous wrote:Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

Dalton doesn't seem to publicly list their profile with grade distributions but here is the one for Trinity - https://trinityschoolnyc.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/390/download/download_4530575.pdf

Matriculations only impressive if they had Northeastern, UVA, Tufts, and Duke with 10 kids each. That's all that counts.

One dalton kid has parent on board of HYP and donated a center in their name

These schools are also taking 15-20% of kids who are first gen - so they are walking the walk but the ROI on these NYC kids is pretty good

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not upset with the kids or their parents, they have figured out the system and are playing the game. What I find appalling is the elite colleges who claim to want socioeconomic diversity, racial diversity, cultural diversity, regional diversity, etc etc, but then take all these kids from one school. An elite upper class private in NYC.

Wealthy, smart kids concentrate in the same place. What did you expect?

That the colleges practice what they preach and select kids from other schools. There is no way these kids are any different in their abilities, extra-curriculars, interests, grades, or character than a lot of other kids at different schools.

One of the Dalton students who has posted on there has a parent on the board of the endowment of a HYP school.

Curious, most of these colleges require As for admission. Do all these kids have As at Dalton? Looks like it must be pretty easy to get As if all these kids are getting them. Grade inflation at Dalton appears to be out of control.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not upset with the kids or their parents, they have figured out the system and are playing the game. What I find appalling is the elite colleges who claim to want socioeconomic diversity, racial diversity, cultural diversity, regional diversity, etc etc, but then take all these kids from one school. An elite upper class private in NYC.

Wealthy, smart kids concentrate in the same place. What did you expect?

I’m not upset with the kids or their parents, they have figured out the system and are playing the game. What I find appalling is the elite colleges who claim to want socioeconomic diversity, racial diversity, cultural diversity, regional diversity, etc etc, but then take all these kids from one school. An elite upper class private in NYC.

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Clearly Dalton is an Ivy feeder. DMV privates may be having a tough year with matriculations to top 20 schools/Ivies, but NYC prep schools seem to be doing just fine and claiming a good percentage of the spots. I thought the Ivies and top 20s were trying to diversify were their admits come from? Instead it looks like NYC prep schools get the most. It's an embarrassment of riches, when looking at this list. No school in the DMV this year can compare. 🙄

Wow. These matriculations are really impressive, especially in a year like this year.

Development admits

Maybe. Now look at Stuy or Hunter or Regis or Tech etc etc

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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.

Columbia Grammar, not the most rigorous, sometimes has super strong admit years - multiple kids in at one Ivy, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Randomly googled one of the Dalton kids’ unique first & last name. One of the first results was the announcement by the same top school that child is committed to of a building donation.

I'm sure they run in circles where everyone's used to mommy and daddy donating $$ to get their kids some advantage, but in the real world, I would find it embarrassing that the only reason you got into some elite school was because your parents literally bought your way in.

IMO, unhooked kids getting into elite schools is impressive. These rich kids getting in.. not so much.

I'm sure they'll feel really sad while flying on daddy's jet to spend the weekend in Deer Vally

sure, and many never go out into the real world, like the Trump family kids, but these kids aren't impressive.

Interestingly, UK (a country with a royal family) colleges don't care who your family is but the US (meritocracy but only for the masses) colleges still do.

I'll believe that when a PMs child or a royal spawn ends up at Hull

Maybe it's because children of smart parents are usually also smart. William went to StA for art history or some such. Not exactly a challenging major to begin with, so the bar was probably pretty low.

In any case, they don't have legacy or family $$$ contributions to the unis there, unlike here.

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.