Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:55
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I dont know what it's like coming out of public in nyc, but coming out of private, you can be in the bottom 25% of the class and get into Tufts.
And maybe this is the value in private? It puts in a bottom. You may not be going to HYP but you won't end up at (insert a college ranked 100 )
A friend of mine has a daughter that grinded it out in a upper middle class nyc suburb. all sorts of EC. 4.0 GPA. good ACT score. Tufts was the best school she got into.
(and loves it, which is important!). tough 4 years.
versus being middle of the pack at a 2T school and getting into Tufts or being in the bottom quartile at a TT and getting into Tufts.
the optionality of a better college with the "floor" of tufts is worth $300k to me if the alternative is a miserable 4 years fighting for each .01 on GPA at a top suburban school.
Others make a different choice.
Depends on what you do with the $300k from my experience. Many Ivy grads have to grind well into their 40's to make it worth it. Not everyone is going to reach the top of the pyramid in their field.
it's just over 5% of our net worth (for two kids to private high school). so while theoretically i understand the save $300k and put it into the stock market and give the kids $1mm when they graduate (although i think the math is less than $1mm but i get your point) - in reality that's not how it works for the majority of people putting their kids in private school.
do we love writing the $150k a check. Nope. but it's a one time (actually 4x) event. we move on. it's not really changing our lifestyle either way. we don't really spend our earnings completely anyway.
and it's the floor of Tufts that was the discussion, the Ivy potentially - that was just the cherry on top if it happened to be the case.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:48
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I dont know what it's like coming out of public in nyc, but coming out of private, you can be in the bottom 25% of the class and get into Tufts.
And maybe this is the value in private? It puts in a bottom. You may not be going to HYP but you won't end up at (insert a college ranked 100 )
A friend of mine has a daughter that grinded it out in a upper middle class nyc suburb. all sorts of EC. 4.0 GPA. good ACT score. Tufts was the best school she got into.
(and loves it, which is important!). tough 4 years.
versus being middle of the pack at a 2T school and getting into Tufts or being in the bottom quartile at a TT and getting into Tufts.
the optionality of a better college with the "floor" of tufts is worth $300k to me if the alternative is a miserable 4 years fighting for each .01 on GPA at a top suburban school.
Others make a different choice.
The other side of that coin, though, is that when you’re at one of these schools (I’m a trin grad, kids at dalton), you’re not competing with other schools. Your competition is almost solely internal: your extremely competitive, remarkably gifted (and sometimes extraordinarily well-connected) classmates. So, while the floor may be higher (it truly is, in my grad year, mid students with b’s and c’s got into michigan and emory, etc.), the bar to clear for admissions to top colleges is also significantly higher, which leads to an ungodly amount of stress and pressure. A lot of kids who, had the gone to a public school and thrived, could have potentially gotten into ivy+ rather than some of the places they ended up.
These are the tradeoffs. I really did not enjoy school so much, however I did adore my college experience.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:20
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I dont know what it's like coming out of public in nyc, but coming out of private, you can be in the bottom 25% of the class and get into Tufts.
And maybe this is the value in private? It puts in a bottom. You may not be going to HYP but you won't end up at (insert a college ranked 100 )
A friend of mine has a daughter that grinded it out in a upper middle class nyc suburb. all sorts of EC. 4.0 GPA. good ACT score. Tufts was the best school she got into.
(and loves it, which is important!). tough 4 years.
versus being middle of the pack at a 2T school and getting into Tufts or being in the bottom quartile at a TT and getting into Tufts.
the optionality of a better college with the "floor" of tufts is worth $300k to me if the alternative is a miserable 4 years fighting for each .01 on GPA at a top suburban school.
Others make a different choice.
Depends on what you do with the $300k from my experience. Many Ivy grads have to grind well into their 40's to make it worth it. Not everyone is going to reach the top of the pyramid in their field.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:13
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Only these schools changed adding MIT: Spence +1, Dalton +1, Regis +2, Hunter +2, Fieldston +1.
Also added Hunter, Browning, and Dwight-Englewood
School (N): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+
Brearley (46): 36 (78%); 14 (30%); 32 (70%)
Spence (64): 41 (64%); 12 (19%); 38 (59%)
Chapin (52): 32 (62%); 6 (12%); 28 (54%)
Dalton (59): 33 (56%); 13 (22%); 32 (54%)
Saint Ann's (73): 36 (49%); 7 (10%); 27 (37%)
Horace Mann (131): 64 (49%); 6 (5%); 63 (48%)
Trinity (109): 52 (48%); 13 (12%); 49 (45%)
Regis (79): 35 (44%); 6 (8%); 29 (37%)
Nightingale (57): 24 (42%); 1 (2%); 22 (39%)
Riverdale (128): 53 (41%); 11 (9%); 48 (38%)
Hunter (114): 46 (40%); 12 (11%); 42 (37%)
Browning (27): 10 (37%); 2 (7%); 10 (37%)
Packer (92): 28 (30%); 3 (3%); 23 (25%)
Fieldston (141): 42 (30%); 12 (9%); 40 (28%)
Friends Seminary (39): 11 (28%); 2 (5%); 10 (26%)
CGPS (119): 32 (27%); 3 (3%); 28 (24%)
Dwight-Englewood (124): 31 (25%); 8 (6%); 28 (23%)
Avenues (91): 21 (23%); 4 (4%); 20 (22%)
Trevor (87): 16 (18%); 1 (1%); 16 (18%)
Berkeley Carroll (77): 14 (18%); 0 (0%); 9 (12%)
Poly Prep (123): 22 (18%); 2 (2%); 22 (18%)
Grace Church (80): 14 (18%); 1 (1%); 13 (16%)
Sacred Heart (61): 10 (16%); 2 (3%); 10 (16%)
Marymount (70): 8 (11%); 1 (1%); 7 (10%)
Brooklyn Friends (48): 5 (10%); 0 (0%); 3 (6%)
H/Y/P/S/M = Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Stanford + MIT
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford + MIT + Caltech + UChicago + Duke + Johns Hopkins + Northwestern + Vanderbilt
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + Williams + Amherst + Swarthmore + Pomona
Actual data from schools' websites. 5 year averages where available, otherwise, latest year(s) available averaged.
School N/yr Ivy+WASP H/Y/P/S/M Ivy+ Years (Averaged)
Brearley 61 60% 19% 53% 2021-2025
Spence 64 54% 17% 50% 2021-2025
Dalton 87 52% 16% 48% 2019-2024
Riverdale 116 46% 11% 43% 2020-2025
Saint Ann's 86 45% 13% 35% 2024-2025
Chapin 60 43% 11% 38% 2021-2025
Nightingale 57 33% 6% 28% 2021-2025
Fieldston 120 28% 3% 24% 2020-2025
Browning 25 25% 3% 23% 2021-2025
Regis 130 25% 6% 22% 2022-2025
Friends Seminary 74 24% 5% 21% 2021-2025
Packer 96 19% 5% 16% 2021-2025
Avenues 91 19% 3% 17% 2023
Dwight-Englewood 124 17% 3% 16% 2023-2025
Sacred Heart 56 16% 3% 15% 2021-2025
Poly Prep 128 15% 2% 12% 2021-2025
Marymount 50 14% 3% 13% 2020-2024
Horace Mann 180 42% 6% 42% 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
BCS, BFS, CGPS, GCS, Hunter, Trevor, Trinity don't report #s, just schools.
Woow this is much more meaningful data! Thanks for putting this together
she still won't add the other colleges. this is Ivy+ or bust mom!
What's your guess which schools move up and which move down if she added 5-10 more schools? I can't imagine much changes.
it changes the data to show how broadly the schools do - this Ivy plus WASP is a very tight definition.
For example, CGPS has 67 kids (out of 120) going to the ivy plus wasp PLUS - emory, washu, berkley, ucla, michigan, texas, rice (and i think i included tufts and usc in here as well).
versus 32 i believe they had for ivy plus wasp. so another 25% (35 kids) or so going to what most would say are really good schools.
if you just use the ivy plus wasp you are really just narrowing now the list and of course the top schools will be doing better.
These are really excellent schools. I'd agree adding them but they are also not difficult to get into from NYC schools.
Many T2 send multiple students to Emory, WashU, Michigan each year.
Same thing for LACs, why only WASP? Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin are all excellent schools.
Ok - one time analysis, because it doesn't really change the order much, right?
Ivy+24 = Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Emory, WashU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, Rice, Tufts, USC, Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin
2026 Instagram
Spence: 87.5%
Brearley: 84.8%
Chapin: 75.0%
Dalton: 71.2%
Riverdale: 67.2%
Saint Ann's: 65.8%
Horace Mann: 65.6%
Trinity: 64.2%
Nightingale: 63.2%
Hunter: 52.6%
Fieldston: 52.5%
Packer: 51.1%
Regis: 50.6%
CGPS: 50.4%
Friends Seminary: 48.7%
Browning: 48.1%
Avenues: 42.9%
Dwight-Englewood: 41.1%
Berkeley Carroll: 40.3%
Poly Prep: 36.6%
Grace Church: 32.5%
Trevor: 32.2%
Marymount: 25.7%
Sacred Heart: 21.3%
Brooklyn Friends: 16.7%
Up:
• Riverdale: #10 → #5, +5 spots. 41.4% → 67.2%. This is the biggest beneficiary: +33 added-school kids.
• Fieldston: #14 → #11, +3. 29.8% → 52.5%. +32 added-school kids.
• CGPS: #16 → #14, +2. 26.9% → 50.4%. +28 added-school kids.
• Packer / Poly / Hunter / Grace / Berkeley Carroll / Marymount each +1.
Down:
• Regis: #8 → #13, -5. 44.3% → 50.6%, but only +5 from the expanded bucket, so it gets passed.
• Browning: #12 → #16, -4. 37.0% → 48.1%, only +3.
• Trevor: #19 → #22, -3. 18.4% → 32.2%, decent absolute lift but not enough vs others.
• Brearley slips #1 → #2 only because Spence has huge Tufts/expanded-bucket lift
Is this meaningful?
Keep expanding the list until every high school gets 100%.
In terms of how competitive these colleges are, only two cutoff matter: The first is HYPMS. The second is T20 + T10 lacs.
Are we using last year’s T20 or this year’s? There are a lot more than 20 schools in this year’s T20. Some of them are not that competitive out of NYC schools.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:08
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Only these schools changed adding MIT: Spence +1, Dalton +1, Regis +2, Hunter +2, Fieldston +1.
Also added Hunter, Browning, and Dwight-Englewood
School (N): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+
Brearley (46): 36 (78%); 14 (30%); 32 (70%)
Spence (64): 41 (64%); 12 (19%); 38 (59%)
Chapin (52): 32 (62%); 6 (12%); 28 (54%)
Dalton (59): 33 (56%); 13 (22%); 32 (54%)
Saint Ann's (73): 36 (49%); 7 (10%); 27 (37%)
Horace Mann (131): 64 (49%); 6 (5%); 63 (48%)
Trinity (109): 52 (48%); 13 (12%); 49 (45%)
Regis (79): 35 (44%); 6 (8%); 29 (37%)
Nightingale (57): 24 (42%); 1 (2%); 22 (39%)
Riverdale (128): 53 (41%); 11 (9%); 48 (38%)
Hunter (114): 46 (40%); 12 (11%); 42 (37%)
Browning (27): 10 (37%); 2 (7%); 10 (37%)
Packer (92): 28 (30%); 3 (3%); 23 (25%)
Fieldston (141): 42 (30%); 12 (9%); 40 (28%)
Friends Seminary (39): 11 (28%); 2 (5%); 10 (26%)
CGPS (119): 32 (27%); 3 (3%); 28 (24%)
Dwight-Englewood (124): 31 (25%); 8 (6%); 28 (23%)
Avenues (91): 21 (23%); 4 (4%); 20 (22%)
Trevor (87): 16 (18%); 1 (1%); 16 (18%)
Berkeley Carroll (77): 14 (18%); 0 (0%); 9 (12%)
Poly Prep (123): 22 (18%); 2 (2%); 22 (18%)
Grace Church (80): 14 (18%); 1 (1%); 13 (16%)
Sacred Heart (61): 10 (16%); 2 (3%); 10 (16%)
Marymount (70): 8 (11%); 1 (1%); 7 (10%)
Brooklyn Friends (48): 5 (10%); 0 (0%); 3 (6%)
H/Y/P/S/M = Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Stanford + MIT
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford + MIT + Caltech + UChicago + Duke + Johns Hopkins + Northwestern + Vanderbilt
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + Williams + Amherst + Swarthmore + Pomona
Actual data from schools' websites. 5 year averages where available, otherwise, latest year(s) available averaged.
School N/yr Ivy+WASP H/Y/P/S/M Ivy+ Years (Averaged)
Brearley 61 60% 19% 53% 2021-2025
Spence 64 54% 17% 50% 2021-2025
Dalton 87 52% 16% 48% 2019-2024
Riverdale 116 46% 11% 43% 2020-2025
Saint Ann's 86 45% 13% 35% 2024-2025
Chapin 60 43% 11% 38% 2021-2025
Nightingale 57 33% 6% 28% 2021-2025
Fieldston 120 28% 3% 24% 2020-2025
Browning 25 25% 3% 23% 2021-2025
Regis 130 25% 6% 22% 2022-2025
Friends Seminary 74 24% 5% 21% 2021-2025
Packer 96 19% 5% 16% 2021-2025
Avenues 91 19% 3% 17% 2023
Dwight-Englewood 124 17% 3% 16% 2023-2025
Sacred Heart 56 16% 3% 15% 2021-2025
Poly Prep 128 15% 2% 12% 2021-2025
Marymount 50 14% 3% 13% 2020-2024
Horace Mann 180 42% 6% 42% 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
BCS, BFS, CGPS, GCS, Hunter, Trevor, Trinity don't report #s, just schools.
Woow this is much more meaningful data! Thanks for putting this together
she still won't add the other colleges. this is Ivy+ or bust mom!
What's your guess which schools move up and which move down if she added 5-10 more schools? I can't imagine much changes.
it changes the data to show how broadly the schools do - this Ivy plus WASP is a very tight definition.
For example, CGPS has 67 kids (out of 120) going to the ivy plus wasp PLUS - emory, washu, berkley, ucla, michigan, texas, rice (and i think i included tufts and usc in here as well).
versus 32 i believe they had for ivy plus wasp. so another 25% (35 kids) or so going to what most would say are really good schools.
if you just use the ivy plus wasp you are really just narrowing now the list and of course the top schools will be doing better.
These are really excellent schools. I'd agree adding them but they are also not difficult to get into from NYC schools.
Many T2 send multiple students to Emory, WashU, Michigan each year.
Same thing for LACs, why only WASP? Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin are all excellent schools.
Ok - one time analysis, because it doesn't really change the order much, right?
Ivy+24 = Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Emory, WashU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, Rice, Tufts, USC, Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin
2026 Instagram
Spence: 87.5%
Brearley: 84.8%
Chapin: 75.0%
Dalton: 71.2%
Riverdale: 67.2%
Saint Ann's: 65.8%
Horace Mann: 65.6%
Trinity: 64.2%
Nightingale: 63.2%
Hunter: 52.6%
Fieldston: 52.5%
Packer: 51.1%
Regis: 50.6%
CGPS: 50.4%
Friends Seminary: 48.7%
Browning: 48.1%
Avenues: 42.9%
Dwight-Englewood: 41.1%
Berkeley Carroll: 40.3%
Poly Prep: 36.6%
Grace Church: 32.5%
Trevor: 32.2%
Marymount: 25.7%
Sacred Heart: 21.3%
Brooklyn Friends: 16.7%
Up:
• Riverdale: #10 → #5, +5 spots. 41.4% → 67.2%. This is the biggest beneficiary: +33 added-school kids.
• Fieldston: #14 → #11, +3. 29.8% → 52.5%. +32 added-school kids.
• CGPS: #16 → #14, +2. 26.9% → 50.4%. +28 added-school kids.
• Packer / Poly / Hunter / Grace / Berkeley Carroll / Marymount each +1.
Down:
• Regis: #8 → #13, -5. 44.3% → 50.6%, but only +5 from the expanded bucket, so it gets passed.
• Browning: #12 → #16, -4. 37.0% → 48.1%, only +3.
• Trevor: #19 → #22, -3. 18.4% → 32.2%, decent absolute lift but not enough vs others.
• Brearley slips #1 → #2 only because Spence has huge Tufts/expanded-bucket lift
Is this meaningful?
Question becomes what happened to Trinity and HM ? They have such an academic rigor reputation but now being the lowest 2 among all TTs.
Sibling policy for Trinity.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:07
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:I dont know what it's like coming out of public in nyc, but coming out of private, you can be in the bottom 25% of the class and get into Tufts.
And maybe this is the value in private? It puts in a bottom. You may not be going to HYP but you won't end up at (insert a college ranked 100 )
A friend of mine has a daughter that grinded it out in a upper middle class nyc suburb. all sorts of EC. 4.0 GPA. good ACT score. Tufts was the best school she got into.
(and loves it, which is important!). tough 4 years.
versus being middle of the pack at a 2T school and getting into Tufts or being in the bottom quartile at a TT and getting into Tufts.
the optionality of a better college with the "floor" of tufts is worth $300k to me if the alternative is a miserable 4 years fighting for each .01 on GPA at a top suburban school.
Others make a different choice.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:04
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Only these schools changed adding MIT: Spence +1, Dalton +1, Regis +2, Hunter +2, Fieldston +1.
Also added Hunter, Browning, and Dwight-Englewood
School (N): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+
Brearley (46): 36 (78%); 14 (30%); 32 (70%)
Spence (64): 41 (64%); 12 (19%); 38 (59%)
Chapin (52): 32 (62%); 6 (12%); 28 (54%)
Dalton (59): 33 (56%); 13 (22%); 32 (54%)
Saint Ann's (73): 36 (49%); 7 (10%); 27 (37%)
Horace Mann (131): 64 (49%); 6 (5%); 63 (48%)
Trinity (109): 52 (48%); 13 (12%); 49 (45%)
Regis (79): 35 (44%); 6 (8%); 29 (37%)
Nightingale (57): 24 (42%); 1 (2%); 22 (39%)
Riverdale (128): 53 (41%); 11 (9%); 48 (38%)
Hunter (114): 46 (40%); 12 (11%); 42 (37%)
Browning (27): 10 (37%); 2 (7%); 10 (37%)
Packer (92): 28 (30%); 3 (3%); 23 (25%)
Fieldston (141): 42 (30%); 12 (9%); 40 (28%)
Friends Seminary (39): 11 (28%); 2 (5%); 10 (26%)
CGPS (119): 32 (27%); 3 (3%); 28 (24%)
Dwight-Englewood (124): 31 (25%); 8 (6%); 28 (23%)
Avenues (91): 21 (23%); 4 (4%); 20 (22%)
Trevor (87): 16 (18%); 1 (1%); 16 (18%)
Berkeley Carroll (77): 14 (18%); 0 (0%); 9 (12%)
Poly Prep (123): 22 (18%); 2 (2%); 22 (18%)
Grace Church (80): 14 (18%); 1 (1%); 13 (16%)
Sacred Heart (61): 10 (16%); 2 (3%); 10 (16%)
Marymount (70): 8 (11%); 1 (1%); 7 (10%)
Brooklyn Friends (48): 5 (10%); 0 (0%); 3 (6%)
H/Y/P/S/M = Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Stanford + MIT
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford + MIT + Caltech + UChicago + Duke + Johns Hopkins + Northwestern + Vanderbilt
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + Williams + Amherst + Swarthmore + Pomona
Actual data from schools' websites. 5 year averages where available, otherwise, latest year(s) available averaged.
School N/yr Ivy+WASP H/Y/P/S/M Ivy+ Years (Averaged)
Brearley 61 60% 19% 53% 2021-2025
Spence 64 54% 17% 50% 2021-2025
Dalton 87 52% 16% 48% 2019-2024
Riverdale 116 46% 11% 43% 2020-2025
Saint Ann's 86 45% 13% 35% 2024-2025
Chapin 60 43% 11% 38% 2021-2025
Nightingale 57 33% 6% 28% 2021-2025
Fieldston 120 28% 3% 24% 2020-2025
Browning 25 25% 3% 23% 2021-2025
Regis 130 25% 6% 22% 2022-2025
Friends Seminary 74 24% 5% 21% 2021-2025
Packer 96 19% 5% 16% 2021-2025
Avenues 91 19% 3% 17% 2023
Dwight-Englewood 124 17% 3% 16% 2023-2025
Sacred Heart 56 16% 3% 15% 2021-2025
Poly Prep 128 15% 2% 12% 2021-2025
Marymount 50 14% 3% 13% 2020-2024
Horace Mann 180 42% 6% 42% 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
BCS, BFS, CGPS, GCS, Hunter, Trevor, Trinity don't report #s, just schools.
Woow this is much more meaningful data! Thanks for putting this together
she still won't add the other colleges. this is Ivy+ or bust mom!
What's your guess which schools move up and which move down if she added 5-10 more schools? I can't imagine much changes.
it changes the data to show how broadly the schools do - this Ivy plus WASP is a very tight definition.
For example, CGPS has 67 kids (out of 120) going to the ivy plus wasp PLUS - emory, washu, berkley, ucla, michigan, texas, rice (and i think i included tufts and usc in here as well).
versus 32 i believe they had for ivy plus wasp. so another 25% (35 kids) or so going to what most would say are really good schools.
if you just use the ivy plus wasp you are really just narrowing now the list and of course the top schools will be doing better.
These are really excellent schools. I'd agree adding them but they are also not difficult to get into from NYC schools.
Many T2 send multiple students to Emory, WashU, Michigan each year.
Same thing for LACs, why only WASP? Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin are all excellent schools.
Ok - one time analysis, because it doesn't really change the order much, right?
Ivy+24 = Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Emory, WashU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, Rice, Tufts, USC, Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin
2026 Instagram
Spence: 87.5%
Brearley: 84.8%
Chapin: 75.0%
Dalton: 71.2%
Riverdale: 67.2%
Saint Ann's: 65.8%
Horace Mann: 65.6%
Trinity: 64.2%
Nightingale: 63.2%
Hunter: 52.6%
Fieldston: 52.5%
Packer: 51.1%
Regis: 50.6%
CGPS: 50.4%
Friends Seminary: 48.7%
Browning: 48.1%
Avenues: 42.9%
Dwight-Englewood: 41.1%
Berkeley Carroll: 40.3%
Poly Prep: 36.6%
Grace Church: 32.5%
Trevor: 32.2%
Marymount: 25.7%
Sacred Heart: 21.3%
Brooklyn Friends: 16.7%
Up:
• Riverdale: #10 → #5, +5 spots. 41.4% → 67.2%. This is the biggest beneficiary: +33 added-school kids.
• Fieldston: #14 → #11, +3. 29.8% → 52.5%. +32 added-school kids.
• CGPS: #16 → #14, +2. 26.9% → 50.4%. +28 added-school kids.
• Packer / Poly / Hunter / Grace / Berkeley Carroll / Marymount each +1.
Down:
• Regis: #8 → #13, -5. 44.3% → 50.6%, but only +5 from the expanded bucket, so it gets passed.
• Browning: #12 → #16, -4. 37.0% → 48.1%, only +3.
• Trevor: #19 → #22, -3. 18.4% → 32.2%, decent absolute lift but not enough vs others.
• Brearley slips #1 → #2 only because Spence has huge Tufts/expanded-bucket lift
Is this meaningful?
Keep expanding the list until every high school gets 100%.
In terms of how competitive these colleges are, only two cutoff matter: The first is HYPMS. The second is T20 + T10 lacs.
I said T20 + WASP. getting into Carleton is not harder than, say, BC. which is not even a T20.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 16:01
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
I dont know what it's like coming out of public in nyc, but coming out of private, you can be in the bottom 25% of the class and get into Tufts.
And maybe this is the value in private? It puts in a bottom. You may not be going to HYP but you won't end up at (insert a college ranked 100 )
And maybe this is the value in private? It puts in a bottom. You may not be going to HYP but you won't end up at (insert a college ranked 100 )
Anonymous
06/01/2026 15:58
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:not meaningful. a lot of people would put ND, CMU, UVA or Georgetown over Tufts, USC, Texas, Wellesley or Barnard.
I mean .. Tufts? Really?
Yes, all of those are above Tufts, USC, Texas, Wellesley and Barnard.
I think you're missing her point. Adding more schools increases every school's %, but what's the point, to get everyone to 100%? The ranking doesn't really move.
what is important to us is different than many others here. In fact, what we looked at was how good the school's broad placement was. Which included even more schools - like NYU for example.
We ended up being happy with what many consider a 3T school given how high of a percentage fell into our "broadly good school".
Anonymous
06/01/2026 15:53
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Only these schools changed adding MIT: Spence +1, Dalton +1, Regis +2, Hunter +2, Fieldston +1.
Also added Hunter, Browning, and Dwight-Englewood
School (N): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+
Brearley (46): 36 (78%); 14 (30%); 32 (70%)
Spence (64): 41 (64%); 12 (19%); 38 (59%)
Chapin (52): 32 (62%); 6 (12%); 28 (54%)
Dalton (59): 33 (56%); 13 (22%); 32 (54%)
Saint Ann's (73): 36 (49%); 7 (10%); 27 (37%)
Horace Mann (131): 64 (49%); 6 (5%); 63 (48%)
Trinity (109): 52 (48%); 13 (12%); 49 (45%)
Regis (79): 35 (44%); 6 (8%); 29 (37%)
Nightingale (57): 24 (42%); 1 (2%); 22 (39%)
Riverdale (128): 53 (41%); 11 (9%); 48 (38%)
Hunter (114): 46 (40%); 12 (11%); 42 (37%)
Browning (27): 10 (37%); 2 (7%); 10 (37%)
Packer (92): 28 (30%); 3 (3%); 23 (25%)
Fieldston (141): 42 (30%); 12 (9%); 40 (28%)
Friends Seminary (39): 11 (28%); 2 (5%); 10 (26%)
CGPS (119): 32 (27%); 3 (3%); 28 (24%)
Dwight-Englewood (124): 31 (25%); 8 (6%); 28 (23%)
Avenues (91): 21 (23%); 4 (4%); 20 (22%)
Trevor (87): 16 (18%); 1 (1%); 16 (18%)
Berkeley Carroll (77): 14 (18%); 0 (0%); 9 (12%)
Poly Prep (123): 22 (18%); 2 (2%); 22 (18%)
Grace Church (80): 14 (18%); 1 (1%); 13 (16%)
Sacred Heart (61): 10 (16%); 2 (3%); 10 (16%)
Marymount (70): 8 (11%); 1 (1%); 7 (10%)
Brooklyn Friends (48): 5 (10%); 0 (0%); 3 (6%)
H/Y/P/S/M = Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Stanford + MIT
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford + MIT + Caltech + UChicago + Duke + Johns Hopkins + Northwestern + Vanderbilt
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + Williams + Amherst + Swarthmore + Pomona
Actual data from schools' websites. 5 year averages where available, otherwise, latest year(s) available averaged.
School N/yr Ivy+WASP H/Y/P/S/M Ivy+ Years (Averaged)
Brearley 61 60% 19% 53% 2021-2025
Spence 64 54% 17% 50% 2021-2025
Dalton 87 52% 16% 48% 2019-2024
Riverdale 116 46% 11% 43% 2020-2025
Saint Ann's 86 45% 13% 35% 2024-2025
Chapin 60 43% 11% 38% 2021-2025
Nightingale 57 33% 6% 28% 2021-2025
Fieldston 120 28% 3% 24% 2020-2025
Browning 25 25% 3% 23% 2021-2025
Regis 130 25% 6% 22% 2022-2025
Friends Seminary 74 24% 5% 21% 2021-2025
Packer 96 19% 5% 16% 2021-2025
Avenues 91 19% 3% 17% 2023
Dwight-Englewood 124 17% 3% 16% 2023-2025
Sacred Heart 56 16% 3% 15% 2021-2025
Poly Prep 128 15% 2% 12% 2021-2025
Marymount 50 14% 3% 13% 2020-2024
Horace Mann 180 42% 6% 42% 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
BCS, BFS, CGPS, GCS, Hunter, Trevor, Trinity don't report #s, just schools.
Woow this is much more meaningful data! Thanks for putting this together
she still won't add the other colleges. this is Ivy+ or bust mom!
What's your guess which schools move up and which move down if she added 5-10 more schools? I can't imagine much changes.
it changes the data to show how broadly the schools do - this Ivy plus WASP is a very tight definition.
For example, CGPS has 67 kids (out of 120) going to the ivy plus wasp PLUS - emory, washu, berkley, ucla, michigan, texas, rice (and i think i included tufts and usc in here as well).
versus 32 i believe they had for ivy plus wasp. so another 25% (35 kids) or so going to what most would say are really good schools.
if you just use the ivy plus wasp you are really just narrowing now the list and of course the top schools will be doing better.
These are really excellent schools. I'd agree adding them but they are also not difficult to get into from NYC schools.
Many T2 send multiple students to Emory, WashU, Michigan each year.
Same thing for LACs, why only WASP? Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin are all excellent schools.
Ok - one time analysis, because it doesn't really change the order much, right?
Ivy+24 = Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Emory, WashU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, Rice, Tufts, USC, Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin
2026 Instagram
Spence: 87.5%
Brearley: 84.8%
Chapin: 75.0%
Dalton: 71.2%
Riverdale: 67.2%
Saint Ann's: 65.8%
Horace Mann: 65.6%
Trinity: 64.2%
Nightingale: 63.2%
Hunter: 52.6%
Fieldston: 52.5%
Packer: 51.1%
Regis: 50.6%
CGPS: 50.4%
Friends Seminary: 48.7%
Browning: 48.1%
Avenues: 42.9%
Dwight-Englewood: 41.1%
Berkeley Carroll: 40.3%
Poly Prep: 36.6%
Grace Church: 32.5%
Trevor: 32.2%
Marymount: 25.7%
Sacred Heart: 21.3%
Brooklyn Friends: 16.7%
Up:
• Riverdale: #10 → #5, +5 spots. 41.4% → 67.2%. This is the biggest beneficiary: +33 added-school kids.
• Fieldston: #14 → #11, +3. 29.8% → 52.5%. +32 added-school kids.
• CGPS: #16 → #14, +2. 26.9% → 50.4%. +28 added-school kids.
• Packer / Poly / Hunter / Grace / Berkeley Carroll / Marymount each +1.
Down:
• Regis: #8 → #13, -5. 44.3% → 50.6%, but only +5 from the expanded bucket, so it gets passed.
• Browning: #12 → #16, -4. 37.0% → 48.1%, only +3.
• Trevor: #19 → #22, -3. 18.4% → 32.2%, decent absolute lift but not enough vs others.
• Brearley slips #1 → #2 only because Spence has huge Tufts/expanded-bucket lift
Is this meaningful?
thanks for sharing. agree with others on the list being a bit too broad. the idea was to capture the very good schools - georgetown, the top state schools, CMU, ND. but in generally really good.
surprised how poor some of the bottom schools did. hard to see value attending the bottom 5 unless $$ isn't an issue.
Brearley should be 1 - i think Spence benefited from Barnard, Tufts. if the ranking ever gets cleaned up, my guess is Spence falls to 2.
Riverdale is TT. I really do believe it. I think the data shows that it belongs.
Nightingale, CGPS punch above their reputation (academic wise).
Trinity poor results are due (in my opinion) to the sibling policy. I'd guess many of the weaker results are from situations where older DC is a superstar.
Overall, the girls schools are pretty remarkable across the board for their college results. I wonder if it's due to bringing in superstars in 9th grade and letting some weaker kids transfer.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 15:51
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Only these schools changed adding MIT: Spence +1, Dalton +1, Regis +2, Hunter +2, Fieldston +1.
Also added Hunter, Browning, and Dwight-Englewood
School (N): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+
Brearley (46): 36 (78%); 14 (30%); 32 (70%)
Spence (64): 41 (64%); 12 (19%); 38 (59%)
Chapin (52): 32 (62%); 6 (12%); 28 (54%)
Dalton (59): 33 (56%); 13 (22%); 32 (54%)
Saint Ann's (73): 36 (49%); 7 (10%); 27 (37%)
Horace Mann (131): 64 (49%); 6 (5%); 63 (48%)
Trinity (109): 52 (48%); 13 (12%); 49 (45%)
Regis (79): 35 (44%); 6 (8%); 29 (37%)
Nightingale (57): 24 (42%); 1 (2%); 22 (39%)
Riverdale (128): 53 (41%); 11 (9%); 48 (38%)
Hunter (114): 46 (40%); 12 (11%); 42 (37%)
Browning (27): 10 (37%); 2 (7%); 10 (37%)
Packer (92): 28 (30%); 3 (3%); 23 (25%)
Fieldston (141): 42 (30%); 12 (9%); 40 (28%)
Friends Seminary (39): 11 (28%); 2 (5%); 10 (26%)
CGPS (119): 32 (27%); 3 (3%); 28 (24%)
Dwight-Englewood (124): 31 (25%); 8 (6%); 28 (23%)
Avenues (91): 21 (23%); 4 (4%); 20 (22%)
Trevor (87): 16 (18%); 1 (1%); 16 (18%)
Berkeley Carroll (77): 14 (18%); 0 (0%); 9 (12%)
Poly Prep (123): 22 (18%); 2 (2%); 22 (18%)
Grace Church (80): 14 (18%); 1 (1%); 13 (16%)
Sacred Heart (61): 10 (16%); 2 (3%); 10 (16%)
Marymount (70): 8 (11%); 1 (1%); 7 (10%)
Brooklyn Friends (48): 5 (10%); 0 (0%); 3 (6%)
H/Y/P/S/M = Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Stanford + MIT
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford + MIT + Caltech + UChicago + Duke + Johns Hopkins + Northwestern + Vanderbilt
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + Williams + Amherst + Swarthmore + Pomona
Actual data from schools' websites. 5 year averages where available, otherwise, latest year(s) available averaged.
School N/yr Ivy+WASP H/Y/P/S/M Ivy+ Years (Averaged)
Brearley 61 60% 19% 53% 2021-2025
Spence 64 54% 17% 50% 2021-2025
Dalton 87 52% 16% 48% 2019-2024
Riverdale 116 46% 11% 43% 2020-2025
Saint Ann's 86 45% 13% 35% 2024-2025
Chapin 60 43% 11% 38% 2021-2025
Nightingale 57 33% 6% 28% 2021-2025
Fieldston 120 28% 3% 24% 2020-2025
Browning 25 25% 3% 23% 2021-2025
Regis 130 25% 6% 22% 2022-2025
Friends Seminary 74 24% 5% 21% 2021-2025
Packer 96 19% 5% 16% 2021-2025
Avenues 91 19% 3% 17% 2023
Dwight-Englewood 124 17% 3% 16% 2023-2025
Sacred Heart 56 16% 3% 15% 2021-2025
Poly Prep 128 15% 2% 12% 2021-2025
Marymount 50 14% 3% 13% 2020-2024
Horace Mann 180 42% 6% 42% 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
BCS, BFS, CGPS, GCS, Hunter, Trevor, Trinity don't report #s, just schools.
Woow this is much more meaningful data! Thanks for putting this together
she still won't add the other colleges. this is Ivy+ or bust mom!
What's your guess which schools move up and which move down if she added 5-10 more schools? I can't imagine much changes.
it changes the data to show how broadly the schools do - this Ivy plus WASP is a very tight definition.
For example, CGPS has 67 kids (out of 120) going to the ivy plus wasp PLUS - emory, washu, berkley, ucla, michigan, texas, rice (and i think i included tufts and usc in here as well).
versus 32 i believe they had for ivy plus wasp. so another 25% (35 kids) or so going to what most would say are really good schools.
if you just use the ivy plus wasp you are really just narrowing now the list and of course the top schools will be doing better.
These are really excellent schools. I'd agree adding them but they are also not difficult to get into from NYC schools.
Many T2 send multiple students to Emory, WashU, Michigan each year.
Same thing for LACs, why only WASP? Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin are all excellent schools.
Ok - one time analysis, because it doesn't really change the order much, right?
Ivy+24 = Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Emory, WashU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, Rice, Tufts, USC, Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin
2026 Instagram
Spence: 87.5%
Brearley: 84.8%
Chapin: 75.0%
Dalton: 71.2%
Riverdale: 67.2%
Saint Ann's: 65.8%
Horace Mann: 65.6%
Trinity: 64.2%
Nightingale: 63.2%
Hunter: 52.6%
Fieldston: 52.5%
Packer: 51.1%
Regis: 50.6%
CGPS: 50.4%
Friends Seminary: 48.7%
Browning: 48.1%
Avenues: 42.9%
Dwight-Englewood: 41.1%
Berkeley Carroll: 40.3%
Poly Prep: 36.6%
Grace Church: 32.5%
Trevor: 32.2%
Marymount: 25.7%
Sacred Heart: 21.3%
Brooklyn Friends: 16.7%
Up:
• Riverdale: #10 → #5, +5 spots. 41.4% → 67.2%. This is the biggest beneficiary: +33 added-school kids.
• Fieldston: #14 → #11, +3. 29.8% → 52.5%. +32 added-school kids.
• CGPS: #16 → #14, +2. 26.9% → 50.4%. +28 added-school kids.
• Packer / Poly / Hunter / Grace / Berkeley Carroll / Marymount each +1.
Down:
• Regis: #8 → #13, -5. 44.3% → 50.6%, but only +5 from the expanded bucket, so it gets passed.
• Browning: #12 → #16, -4. 37.0% → 48.1%, only +3.
• Trevor: #19 → #22, -3. 18.4% → 32.2%, decent absolute lift but not enough vs others.
• Brearley slips #1 → #2 only because Spence has huge Tufts/expanded-bucket lift
Is this meaningful?
Keep expanding the list until every high school gets 100%.
In terms of how competitive these colleges are, only two cutoff matter: The first is HYPMS. The second is T20 + T10 lacs.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 15:45
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:not meaningful. a lot of people would put ND, CMU, UVA or Georgetown over Tufts, USC, Texas, Wellesley or Barnard.
I mean .. Tufts? Really?
Yes, all of those are above Tufts, USC, Texas, Wellesley and Barnard.
I think you're missing her point. Adding more schools increases every school's %, but what's the point, to get everyone to 100%? The ranking doesn't really move.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 15:45
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:not meaningful. a lot of people would put ND, CMU, UVA or Georgetown over Tufts, USC, Texas, Wellesley or Barnard.
I mean .. Tufts? Really?
Yes, all of those are above Tufts, USC, Texas, Wellesley and Barnard.
UVA isn't over Texas or USC.
the others probably correct.
B and T probably need to go.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 15:44
Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Only these schools changed adding MIT: Spence +1, Dalton +1, Regis +2, Hunter +2, Fieldston +1.
Also added Hunter, Browning, and Dwight-Englewood
School (N): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+
Brearley (46): 36 (78%); 14 (30%); 32 (70%)
Spence (64): 41 (64%); 12 (19%); 38 (59%)
Chapin (52): 32 (62%); 6 (12%); 28 (54%)
Dalton (59): 33 (56%); 13 (22%); 32 (54%)
Saint Ann's (73): 36 (49%); 7 (10%); 27 (37%)
Horace Mann (131): 64 (49%); 6 (5%); 63 (48%)
Trinity (109): 52 (48%); 13 (12%); 49 (45%)
Regis (79): 35 (44%); 6 (8%); 29 (37%)
Nightingale (57): 24 (42%); 1 (2%); 22 (39%)
Riverdale (128): 53 (41%); 11 (9%); 48 (38%)
Hunter (114): 46 (40%); 12 (11%); 42 (37%)
Browning (27): 10 (37%); 2 (7%); 10 (37%)
Packer (92): 28 (30%); 3 (3%); 23 (25%)
Fieldston (141): 42 (30%); 12 (9%); 40 (28%)
Friends Seminary (39): 11 (28%); 2 (5%); 10 (26%)
CGPS (119): 32 (27%); 3 (3%); 28 (24%)
Dwight-Englewood (124): 31 (25%); 8 (6%); 28 (23%)
Avenues (91): 21 (23%); 4 (4%); 20 (22%)
Trevor (87): 16 (18%); 1 (1%); 16 (18%)
Berkeley Carroll (77): 14 (18%); 0 (0%); 9 (12%)
Poly Prep (123): 22 (18%); 2 (2%); 22 (18%)
Grace Church (80): 14 (18%); 1 (1%); 13 (16%)
Sacred Heart (61): 10 (16%); 2 (3%); 10 (16%)
Marymount (70): 8 (11%); 1 (1%); 7 (10%)
Brooklyn Friends (48): 5 (10%); 0 (0%); 3 (6%)
H/Y/P/S/M = Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Stanford + MIT
Ivy+ = Ivy League + Stanford + MIT + Caltech + UChicago + Duke + Johns Hopkins + Northwestern + Vanderbilt
Ivy+WASP = Ivy+ + Williams + Amherst + Swarthmore + Pomona
Actual data from schools' websites. 5 year averages where available, otherwise, latest year(s) available averaged.
School N/yr Ivy+WASP H/Y/P/S/M Ivy+ Years (Averaged)
Brearley 61 60% 19% 53% 2021-2025
Spence 64 54% 17% 50% 2021-2025
Dalton 87 52% 16% 48% 2019-2024
Riverdale 116 46% 11% 43% 2020-2025
Saint Ann's 86 45% 13% 35% 2024-2025
Chapin 60 43% 11% 38% 2021-2025
Nightingale 57 33% 6% 28% 2021-2025
Fieldston 120 28% 3% 24% 2020-2025
Browning 25 25% 3% 23% 2021-2025
Regis 130 25% 6% 22% 2022-2025
Friends Seminary 74 24% 5% 21% 2021-2025
Packer 96 19% 5% 16% 2021-2025
Avenues 91 19% 3% 17% 2023
Dwight-Englewood 124 17% 3% 16% 2023-2025
Sacred Heart 56 16% 3% 15% 2021-2025
Poly Prep 128 15% 2% 12% 2021-2025
Marymount 50 14% 3% 13% 2020-2024
Horace Mann 180 42% 6% 42% 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
BCS, BFS, CGPS, GCS, Hunter, Trevor, Trinity don't report #s, just schools.
Woow this is much more meaningful data! Thanks for putting this together
she still won't add the other colleges. this is Ivy+ or bust mom!
What's your guess which schools move up and which move down if she added 5-10 more schools? I can't imagine much changes.
it changes the data to show how broadly the schools do - this Ivy plus WASP is a very tight definition.
For example, CGPS has 67 kids (out of 120) going to the ivy plus wasp PLUS - emory, washu, berkley, ucla, michigan, texas, rice (and i think i included tufts and usc in here as well).
versus 32 i believe they had for ivy plus wasp. so another 25% (35 kids) or so going to what most would say are really good schools.
if you just use the ivy plus wasp you are really just narrowing now the list and of course the top schools will be doing better.
These are really excellent schools. I'd agree adding them but they are also not difficult to get into from NYC schools.
Many T2 send multiple students to Emory, WashU, Michigan each year.
Same thing for LACs, why only WASP? Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin are all excellent schools.
Ok - one time analysis, because it doesn't really change the order much, right?
Ivy+24 = Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Emory, WashU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, Rice, Tufts, USC, Wellesley, Barnard, Bowdoin
2026 Instagram
Spence: 87.5%
Brearley: 84.8%
Chapin: 75.0%
Dalton: 71.2%
Riverdale: 67.2%
Saint Ann's: 65.8%
Horace Mann: 65.6%
Trinity: 64.2%
Nightingale: 63.2%
Hunter: 52.6%
Fieldston: 52.5%
Packer: 51.1%
Regis: 50.6%
CGPS: 50.4%
Friends Seminary: 48.7%
Browning: 48.1%
Avenues: 42.9%
Dwight-Englewood: 41.1%
Berkeley Carroll: 40.3%
Poly Prep: 36.6%
Grace Church: 32.5%
Trevor: 32.2%
Marymount: 25.7%
Sacred Heart: 21.3%
Brooklyn Friends: 16.7%
Up:
• Riverdale: #10 → #5, +5 spots. 41.4% → 67.2%. This is the biggest beneficiary: +33 added-school kids.
• Fieldston: #14 → #11, +3. 29.8% → 52.5%. +32 added-school kids.
• CGPS: #16 → #14, +2. 26.9% → 50.4%. +28 added-school kids.
• Packer / Poly / Hunter / Grace / Berkeley Carroll / Marymount each +1.
Down:
• Regis: #8 → #13, -5. 44.3% → 50.6%, but only +5 from the expanded bucket, so it gets passed.
• Browning: #12 → #16, -4. 37.0% → 48.1%, only +3.
• Trevor: #19 → #22, -3. 18.4% → 32.2%, decent absolute lift but not enough vs others.
• Brearley slips #1 → #2 only because Spence has huge Tufts/expanded-bucket lift
Is this meaningful?
Question becomes what happened to Trinity and HM ? They have such an academic rigor reputation but now being the lowest 2 among all TTs.
Anonymous
06/01/2026 15:43
Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions
Anonymous wrote:not meaningful. a lot of people would put ND, CMU, UVA or Georgetown over Tufts, USC, Texas, Wellesley or Barnard.
I mean .. Tufts? Really?
Georgetown, CMU, ND, UVA definitely have to be there over Barnard.
Tufts is like the worst of the list. probably needs to get removed.