Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:47
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
I would take Baruch College (finance) or Stony Brook (CS) over many of the schools listed if you are looking to stay in NY Metro area.
my understanding is that those are more of the commuter feeling schools.
i would assume if the girls wanted to stay in the NY Metro area they would do NYU or Columbia voer Baruch or SB. but that's just my guess.
Baruch is going to have a MUCH harder time getting a good job in finance versus most of the schools on the list.
Columbia and NYU are commuter schools too. Depends on if you are focus on trying to hit a homerun over a single. Corporate Banking and Commercial Banking roles pay well (200K - 400k) and decent work/life balance. You can also save the difference for an Ivy+ grad degree.
Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Martin Shkreli (Hedge Fund) are recent graduates of the school.
Oh, criminals. How inspiring.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:45
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Columbia is not a commuter schoolAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
I would take Baruch College (finance) or Stony Brook (CS) over many of the schools listed if you are looking to stay in NY Metro area.
my understanding is that those are more of the commuter feeling schools.
i would assume if the girls wanted to stay in the NY Metro area they would do NYU or Columbia voer Baruch or SB. but that's just my guess.
Baruch is going to have a MUCH harder time getting a good job in finance versus most of the schools on the list.
Columbia and NYU are commuter schools too. Depends on if you are focus on trying to hit a homerun over a single. Corporate Banking and Commercial Banking roles pay well (200K - 400k) and decent work/life balance. You can also save the difference for an Ivy+ grad degree.
Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Martin Shkreli (Hedge Fund) are recent graduates of the school.
With law school for example, you need the right LSAT and good grades. If you have that, it’s not just that you can maybe get into a top law school from a less well known college. Basically you will get into one. Now I can’t promise it will be Yale, but that’s hard no matter what, and they also take people from a range of undergrad schools.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:37
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Columbia is not a commuter schoolAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
I would take Baruch College (finance) or Stony Brook (CS) over many of the schools listed if you are looking to stay in NY Metro area.
my understanding is that those are more of the commuter feeling schools.
i would assume if the girls wanted to stay in the NY Metro area they would do NYU or Columbia voer Baruch or SB. but that's just my guess.
Baruch is going to have a MUCH harder time getting a good job in finance versus most of the schools on the list.
Columbia and NYU are commuter schools too. Depends on if you are focus on trying to hit a homerun over a single. Corporate Banking and Commercial Banking roles pay well (200K - 400k) and decent work/life balance. You can also save the difference for an Ivy+ grad degree.
Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Martin Shkreli (Hedge Fund) are recent graduates of the school.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:37
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
I would take Baruch College (finance) or Stony Brook (CS) over many of the schools listed if you are looking to stay in NY Metro area.
my understanding is that those are more of the commuter feeling schools.
i would assume if the girls wanted to stay in the NY Metro area they would do NYU or Columbia voer Baruch or SB. but that's just my guess.
Baruch is going to have a MUCH harder time getting a good job in finance versus most of the schools on the list.
Columbia and NYU are commuter schools too. Depends on if you are focus on trying to hit a homerun over a single. Corporate Banking and Commercial Banking roles pay well (200K - 400k) and decent work/life balance. You can also save the difference for an Ivy+ grad degree.
Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Martin Shkreli (Hedge Fund) are recent graduates of the school.
Hedge Fund and 6.5 years in prison, so a bit more nuanced here. (and Neumann was forced to resign and the company declared bankrupt in 2023…) or wait, were you being fascetious?
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:33
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
so a criminal and CEO of a failed BK company are your 2 examples. lolAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
I would take Baruch College (finance) or Stony Brook (CS) over many of the schools listed if you are looking to stay in NY Metro area.
my understanding is that those are more of the commuter feeling schools.
i would assume if the girls wanted to stay in the NY Metro area they would do NYU or Columbia voer Baruch or SB. but that's just my guess.
Baruch is going to have a MUCH harder time getting a good job in finance versus most of the schools on the list.
Columbia and NYU are commuter schools too. Depends on if you are focus on trying to hit a homerun over a single. Corporate Banking and Commercial Banking roles pay well (200K - 400k) and decent work/life balance. You can also save the difference for an Ivy+ grad degree.
Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Martin Shkreli (Hedge Fund) are recent graduates of the school.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:28
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
I would take Baruch College (finance) or Stony Brook (CS) over many of the schools listed if you are looking to stay in NY Metro area.
my understanding is that those are more of the commuter feeling schools.
i would assume if the girls wanted to stay in the NY Metro area they would do NYU or Columbia voer Baruch or SB. but that's just my guess.
Baruch is going to have a MUCH harder time getting a good job in finance versus most of the schools on the list.
Columbia and NYU are commuter schools too. Depends on if you are focus on trying to hit a homerun over a single. Corporate Banking and Commercial Banking roles pay well (200K - 400k) and decent work/life balance. You can also save the difference for an Ivy+ grad degree.
Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Martin Shkreli (Hedge Fund) are recent graduates of the school.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 18:08
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
It depends on who you are and what you want to do and also what region you want to live in. Ivies don’t mean the same thing outside the northeast. Where I grew up, it just meant your Daddy was rich. When a kid tells me they want to go to Harvard, I ask why, just to get them thinking about it. It’s just not an automatic boost for everyone. Internationally, I think HYP might help but not as much as people want to believe. In Silicon Valley, they prefer dropouts.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:53
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish I had done this. The difference between a Williams and a Kenyon is not worth the money.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
As a Spence alum, I can vouch that it is very academically intense. Like, unpleasantly if it's not in your nature to study all the time on top of your other commitments. College and law school was easy after it.
oh for god's sake, just tell us how much your mommy and daddy paid to get you into college. because according to the experts here that's the only reason you got into the school you did.
Hahahaha I did something that no one here believes is good for ROI...took a full ride to a lesser regarded liberal arts college, graduated with zero debt, which then got me half tuition at a solid law school, and now I'm shockingly not failing at life--even though I've wasted too much time on this board. My mommy and daddy were not connected, nor wealthy, I was just decently intelligent, a hard worker, and somehow I did ok.
This is basically it. Send kid to Brearley and spend life savings. You will get her into a top college with sufficient name recognition only to see a single tear slowly roll down the left side of her face every time you mention Shakespeare.
Or save the money and be happy with one of these moderately less selective colleges that’s still full of rich connected New Yorkers and that leads to all the same life opportunities.
Going to a top school leads to better life opportunities. you can argue against it but the fact remains, the Ivy's are overindexed to high paying jobs, CEO spots, judges, nobel prizes, etc.
does this mean everyone from an ivy will do well. of course not. and many people can do well from lots of schools.
there is a reason people want to go to these schools. the outcomes are better.
True and I’m one of those. But no one cares where I went undergrad. My ivy grad school mattered sure, but there were students there from a broad range of colleges and that’s even more the case now.
I’m not a hedge fund person so don’t know about that.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:45
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish I had done this. The difference between a Williams and a Kenyon is not worth the money.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
As a Spence alum, I can vouch that it is very academically intense. Like, unpleasantly if it's not in your nature to study all the time on top of your other commitments. College and law school was easy after it.
oh for god's sake, just tell us how much your mommy and daddy paid to get you into college. because according to the experts here that's the only reason you got into the school you did.
Hahahaha I did something that no one here believes is good for ROI...took a full ride to a lesser regarded liberal arts college, graduated with zero debt, which then got me half tuition at a solid law school, and now I'm shockingly not failing at life--even though I've wasted too much time on this board. My mommy and daddy were not connected, nor wealthy, I was just decently intelligent, a hard worker, and somehow I did ok.
This is basically it. Send kid to Brearley and spend life savings. You will get her into a top college with sufficient name recognition only to see a single tear slowly roll down the left side of her face every time you mention Shakespeare.
Or save the money and be happy with one of these moderately less selective colleges that’s still full of rich connected New Yorkers and that leads to all the same life opportunities.
Going to a top school leads to better life opportunities. you can argue against it but the fact remains, the Ivy's are overindexed to high paying jobs, CEO spots, judges, nobel prizes, etc.
does this mean everyone from an ivy will do well. of course not. and many people can do well from lots of schools.
there is a reason people want to go to these schools. the outcomes are better.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:40
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
I would take Baruch College (finance) or Stony Brook (CS) over many of the schools listed if you are looking to stay in NY Metro area.
my understanding is that those are more of the commuter feeling schools.
i would assume if the girls wanted to stay in the NY Metro area they would do NYU or Columbia voer Baruch or SB. but that's just my guess.
Baruch is going to have a MUCH harder time getting a good job in finance versus most of the schools on the list.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:28
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
All the research supports splitting off accelerated learners. I really don’t think a place that charges tuition can do equity well. I don’t quite understand why they even try — it’s silly.
If I had my druthers, we’d just focus on each kid achieving their maximum potential. It’s not the school I thought I was enrolling her in, and it’s not one I would have chosen, but my daughter is happy and doing well, so I can’t get too worked up about it.
If I had my druthers, we’d just focus on each kid achieving their maximum potential. It’s not the school I thought I was enrolling her in, and it’s not one I would have chosen, but my daughter is happy and doing well, so I can’t get too worked up about it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wrote the stuff about the math curriculum complaints, and my kid still is there, so —- yeah, not sure about the bullying.
FWIW, the school announced it was shifting emphasis and told the parents it was going to and then did, so that’s just…a fact?
Again, not a quant, but the parents complaining have the types of girls who might end up at MIT. One trying to apply out.
Also, equity practices have had an effect on math scores, and I know that because I read an article about how it played out in San Francisco, where the changes they made in the name of equity tanked test scores and widened the racial gap. It’s not some weird right wing conspiracy theory. It was in the NYTimes.
“Equity practices” and “shifting emphasis” - kind of a broad brush. It’s not a one size fits all thing. For STEM, I know there’s a debate about what age to start splitting people into different groups. That’s partly an equity question but not exclusively. I don’t think you’ll find that the high school curriculum is somehow weaker than it used to be.
Personally I’d didn’t love the parent DEI stuff when it was the outside consultants. But I never found myself doubting the quality of what was happening in the classroom.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:22
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Oh my bad, missed the joke.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:18
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:A senior girl died by suicide on Friday. Really talented, smart Presidential scholar. Maybe we could lay off their stats?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
Extremely impressive and congrats to the seniors!
But maybe we can move onto more important questions, like how does this compare to Brearley?
Was not actually asking about their stats.
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:12
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
A senior girl died by suicide on Friday. Really talented, smart Presidential scholar. Maybe we could lay off their stats?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:well it appears that the last 1% posted on IG today. 61 girls. surprised at the Berkeley number and no Duke/Stanford/JHU is a bit surprising. There honestly isn't a bad school in this list.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
7: Penn
6: Chicago, Cornell
5: Harvard
4: Princeton, Michigan
3: Berkeley
2: Brown, Columbia, Williams, WashU
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Tufts, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Barnard, Colgate, Wake Forest, Vassar, Northeastern, Chapman, Kenyon, Wesleyan
Extremely impressive and congrats to the seniors!
But maybe we can move onto more important questions, like how does this compare to Brearley?
Anonymous
05/19/2026 17:08
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Shakespeare is for poor people, too. My grandparents didn’t graduate high school and quoted Milton at length.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish I had done this. The difference between a Williams and a Kenyon is not worth the money.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former Brearley parent. Year after year about 25% of class goes to HYPS. With those in particular, it is a lot of legacy, but plenty of normal legacies. Only about 1/3 maybe get into their early schools so most of what you see is not legacy. Plenty of fancy families but plenty of regular families
Other kid went to a different TT with great results as well but not quite the same.
Honestly, I can’t explain why colleges love Brearley so much. But I can say that these results are not reducible to hooks, which are common at all these schools. It plays a role, but the unhooked are doing fine as well.
i can't really explain it either with respect to Spence. The results are out of this world. I understand some of it is $$. But the broad based number of excellent schools across almost the entire student body says that it has to be something.
So far, Spence has 60 kids posted on Instagram which is probably their 99% or entire of the total senior population. the IVY+ Stanford+ MIT rate is 47%.. this is insane as i would think Spence is not as academically intense as Brearley or HM...
As a Spence alum, I can vouch that it is very academically intense. Like, unpleasantly if it's not in your nature to study all the time on top of your other commitments. College and law school was easy after it.
oh for god's sake, just tell us how much your mommy and daddy paid to get you into college. because according to the experts here that's the only reason you got into the school you did.
Hahahaha I did something that no one here believes is good for ROI...took a full ride to a lesser regarded liberal arts college, graduated with zero debt, which then got me half tuition at a solid law school, and now I'm shockingly not failing at life--even though I've wasted too much time on this board. My mommy and daddy were not connected, nor wealthy, I was just decently intelligent, a hard worker, and somehow I did ok.
This is basically it. Send kid to Brearley and spend life savings. You will get her into a top college with sufficient name recognition only to see a single tear slowly roll down the left side of her face every time you mention Shakespeare.
Or save the money and be happy with one of these moderately less selective colleges that’s still full of rich connected New Yorkers and that leads to all the same life opportunities.