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Anonymous

02/09/2025 20:34 Subject: What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Thank you for your insight, indeed MAPCDS has better facilities. If I want to try to target St. B’s would any of these preschools provide a better prep and chance over others? Episcopal and STMPG don’t showcase their exmissions online.

Anonymous

02/09/2025 19:50 Subject: What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:Which one would you pick between Episcopal and STMPG? Similarly, between All Souls and MAPCDS?

Episcopal over STMPG. STMPG was too stuffy for me.
MAPCDS over All Souls. I preferred the director and the facilities.

Anonymous

02/09/2025 19:10 Subject: What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Which one would you pick between Episcopal and STMPG? Similarly, between All Souls and MAPCDS?

Anonymous

02/06/2025 14:16 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Preschools in NYC are irrelevant. In fact,
all the top independent schools there like to have broad representation from neighborhoods and preschools. My DC attended a small, local, UPK preschool and is at one of the TT K-12 privates now. Friends who sent their kids to “top” preschools were brokered or shut out from the top tier school.

was it hard to get UPK teacher to fill out the ISAAGNY form

NP here. ISAAGNY form is very basic. It wasn’t hard to have UPK teacher to fill it out.

so interesting NP but why did you apply from UPK? Why didn’t you attend private PreK? was it because you repeated PK at public due to age reasons?

Our plans changed.

Anonymous

02/06/2025 09:37 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Preschools in NYC are irrelevant. In fact,
all the top independent schools there like to have broad representation from neighborhoods and preschools. My DC attended a small, local, UPK preschool and is at one of the TT K-12 privates now. Friends who sent their kids to “top” preschools were brokered or shut out from the top tier school.

was it hard to get UPK teacher to fill out the ISAAGNY form

NP here. ISAAGNY form is very basic. It wasn’t hard to have UPK teacher to fill it out.

so interesting NP but why did you apply from UPK? Why didn’t you attend private PreK? was it because you repeated PK at public due to age reasons?

Anonymous

02/03/2025 22:39 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Preschools in NYC are irrelevant. In fact,
all the top independent schools there like to have broad representation from neighborhoods and preschools. My DC attended a small, local, UPK preschool and is at one of the TT K-12 privates now. Friends who sent their kids to “top” preschools were brokered or shut out from the top tier school.

was it hard to get UPK teacher to fill out the ISAAGNY form

NP here. ISAAGNY form is very basic. It wasn’t hard to have UPK teacher to fill it out.

Anonymous

02/03/2025 22:08 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:Preschools in NYC are irrelevant. In fact,
all the top independent schools there like to have broad representation from neighborhoods and preschools. My DC attended a small, local, UPK preschool and is at one of the TT K-12 privates now. Friends who sent their kids to “top” preschools were brokered or shut out from the top tier school.

was it hard to get UPK teacher to fill out the ISAAGNY form

Anonymous

02/03/2025 21:45 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:Preschools in NYC are irrelevant. In fact,
all the top independent schools there like to have broad representation from neighborhoods and preschools. My DC attended a small, local, UPK preschool and is at one of the TT K-12 privates now. Friends who sent their kids to “top” preschools were brokered or shut out from the top tier school.

That is very broad statement. There are some (maybe one that I know of) TT that may want to do away with feeder preschool and tend to select from a wide pool, but most of TTs do broker with the TT preschools.

Anonymous

02/03/2025 21:42 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Preschools in NYC are irrelevant. In fact,
all the top independent schools there like to have broad representation from neighborhoods and preschools. My DC attended a small, local, UPK preschool and is at one of the TT K-12 privates now. Friends who sent their kids to “top” preschools were brokered or shut out from the top tier school.

Anonymous

02/03/2025 21:31 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Yes, she is still there but she is leaving by end of the school year. The new incoming head has been decided.

Anonymous

02/03/2025 21:30 Subject: What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Park Children and WSMS also getting new directors next year. Does this tend to affect exmissions?

Mimi’s leaving WSMS? I hadn’t heard that.

Yes, they have a new director now. Can’t imagine WSMS without Mimi

I was there the other day and she was still head of school as far as I could tell.

You’re right. They have a search going on now for her successor: https://www.carneysandoe.com/assets/WSMS-05.18.pdf

Anonymous

02/03/2025 21:26 Subject: What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Park Children and WSMS also getting new directors next year. Does this tend to affect exmissions?

Mimi’s leaving WSMS? I hadn’t heard that.

Yes, they have a new director now. Can’t imagine WSMS without Mimi

I was there the other day and she was still head of school as far as I could tell.

Anonymous

02/03/2025 21:26 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these answers... no. Here is the ranking of all the TT pre-schools in Manhattan:

TT of the TT: Episcopal and 92 Street Y

Then: Temple Emanu-El, Brick Church, Park Children's Day on the UWS (huge connections at Brearley)

Then: STMPG, All Souls, West Side Montessori, Washington Market, Garden House, Christ Church

(But even the third tier of the TT are very TT).

LOL. Outdated. Exmissions at Episcopal is meh. The TT private schools overwhelmingly take kids from 92NY and WSMS. Everything else is a “then.” Brick Church is in shambles since the director left.

Brick’s latest reported class had 6 each Brearley/Collegiate, 5 Dalton, 3 Trinity. That counts as shambles? I only know anecdotal (couple datapoints) from 92NY so hard to compare. Does the whole class get into Trinity or something?

Such high numbers- siblings?

Good point. 3 Trinity and 6 each in Brearley/collegiate which happen to be schools with strong sibling policy seems to indicate siblings.

Anonymous

02/03/2025 21:19 Subject: Re:What is the most elite NYC preschool?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these answers... no. Here is the ranking of all the TT pre-schools in Manhattan:

TT of the TT: Episcopal and 92 Street Y

Then: Temple Emanu-El, Brick Church, Park Children's Day on the UWS (huge connections at Brearley)

Then: STMPG, All Souls, West Side Montessori, Washington Market, Garden House, Christ Church

(But even the third tier of the TT are very TT).

LOL. Outdated. Exmissions at Episcopal is meh. The TT private schools overwhelmingly take kids from 92NY and WSMS. Everything else is a “then.” Brick Church is in shambles since the director left.

Brick’s latest reported class had 6 each Brearley/Collegiate, 5 Dalton, 3 Trinity. That counts as shambles? I only know anecdotal (couple datapoints) from 92NY so hard to compare. Does the whole class get into Trinity or something?

Such high numbers- siblings?