Anonymous
12/15/2025 10:18
Subject: admissions consultants for Kindergarten
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At HM the incredible exmissions are legacies, super rich kids (HHI over a 10 million a year or major family money), off the chart smart kids (you might think this is your kid, but it probably isn't), athletes, FGLI and minorities. Which is a huge portion of the class. But there are plenty of kids who are none of these and they fade into the woodwork at HM.
I was a non-minority non-athletic non-legacy faculty kid at a middling Midwestern private school and would have absolutely been in this category at HM; at my school I was the smart kid and took advantage of some neat resume-bolstering opportunities and ended up getting into both of the Ivies I applied to.
I can't necessarily promise that would happen at a lower-ranked school in NYC because geographic competition is a concern too, and even at Fieldston you're competing with the billionaire / celebrity kids who weren't smart enough to get into Riverdale, but if we stipulate that private school can make a difference in the options for a given kid, then unless your kid is a rock star who was going to get in everywhere anyway, a lower-ranked school will probably do at least as good a job of packaging them as HM/Trinity/Dalton/Brearley would.
You weren’t an average Joe. You were a faculty brat. They are given priority in admissions at these schools to keep their parents (the college office’s co-workers) happy.
Anonymous
12/15/2025 08:41
Subject: admissions consultants for Kindergarten
Anonymous wrote:At HM the incredible exmissions are legacies, super rich kids (HHI over a 10 million a year or major family money), off the chart smart kids (you might think this is your kid, but it probably isn't), athletes, FGLI and minorities. Which is a huge portion of the class. But there are plenty of kids who are none of these and they fade into the woodwork at HM.
I was a non-minority non-athletic non-legacy faculty kid at a middling Midwestern private school and would have absolutely been in this category at HM; at my school I was the smart kid and took advantage of some neat resume-bolstering opportunities and ended up getting into both of the Ivies I applied to.
I can't necessarily promise that would happen at a lower-ranked school in NYC because geographic competition is a concern too, and even at Fieldston you're competing with the billionaire / celebrity kids who weren't smart enough to get into Riverdale, but if we stipulate that private school can make a difference in the options for a given kid, then unless your kid is a rock star who was going to get in everywhere anyway, a lower-ranked school will probably do at least as good a job of packaging them as HM/Trinity/Dalton/Brearley would.
Anonymous
12/14/2025 22:56
Subject: admissions consultants for Kindergarten
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Less likely to get a BB analyst offer from Stuy. Go to the TT and work the alumni network. It’s not comparable.
OK but how is the unconnected non-plutocrat kid going to take advantage of that network at a place like HM?
By befriending rich kids. Sell them drugs. Date them. Throw a party at your house when your parents are gone. Do whatever it takes to hop into bed with them
OK. Here's the situation. My parents went away on a week's vacation.
Precisely. You hook up the GS MD’s son with some oxy and you’ll be setup with a sweet internship at Apollo in no time
Only if they left the keys to the brand new Porsche. Would they mind?
Um. Well. Of course not.
Anonymous
12/14/2025 22:53
Subject: admissions consultants for Kindergarten
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Less likely to get a BB analyst offer from Stuy. Go to the TT and work the alumni network. It’s not comparable.
OK but how is the unconnected non-plutocrat kid going to take advantage of that network at a place like HM?
By befriending rich kids. Sell them drugs. Date them. Throw a party at your house when your parents are gone. Do whatever it takes to hop into bed with them
OK. Here's the situation. My parents went away on a week's vacation.
Precisely. You hook up the GS MD’s son with some oxy and you’ll be setup with a sweet internship at Apollo in no time
Only if they left the keys to the brand new Porsche. Would they mind?
Take it out for a spin. Make sure to reverse the odometer afterward.
Anonymous
12/14/2025 22:51
Subject: admissions consultants for Kindergarten
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Less likely to get a BB analyst offer from Stuy. Go to the TT and work the alumni network. It’s not comparable.
OK but how is the unconnected non-plutocrat kid going to take advantage of that network at a place like HM?
By befriending rich kids. Sell them drugs. Date them. Throw a party at your house when your parents are gone. Do whatever it takes to hop into bed with them
OK. Here's the situation. My parents went away on a week's vacation.
Precisely. You hook up the GS MD’s son with some oxy and you’ll be setup with a sweet internship at Apollo in no time
Only if they left the keys to the brand new Porsche. Would they mind?
Anonymous
12/14/2025 22:49
Subject: admissions consultants for Kindergarten
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Less likely to get a BB analyst offer from Stuy. Go to the TT and work the alumni network. It’s not comparable.
OK but how is the unconnected non-plutocrat kid going to take advantage of that network at a place like HM?
By befriending rich kids. Sell them drugs. Date them. Throw a party at your house when your parents are gone. Do whatever it takes to hop into bed with them
OK. Here's the situation. My parents went away on a week's vacation.
Precisely. You hook up the GS MD’s son with some oxy and you’ll be setup with a sweet internship at Apollo in no time