Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 11:51     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Avenues does have better college matriculations than the old UB crowd would have predicted.

Those ND and GU numbers out of Regis are crazy.

Is someone doing all this work by hand or is this AI?
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 11:28     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: I was curious about what someone said about Regis so I looked up two of their school profiles 2024 (for 21-24) and 25 and noticed two things

One this:
For REGIS 2021-2025 (used 21-24 and then 25), total on their site:

Ivy+ detail:
Ivies = 96 (6+8+11+26+5+14+9+5+9+3)
Stanford = 1
MIT = 3
Caltech = 2
UChicago = 12
Duke = 8
Johns Hopkins = 4
Northwestern = 6
Vanderbilt =3
So Ivy+ = 135 / 650 = 21.0%.

REGIS WASP detail:
Williams = 14
Amherst = 0
Swarthmore = 1
Pomona = 0
So WASP adds 15.

Two this:
27 to ND
50 to Georgetown
35 to BC

Those are giant numbers. I suspect they have kids (and/or parents) preferring ND/GU/even BC to places like Cornell or JHU. Fit matters.


I expanded to US News Top 26 (25/26 are tied) National Universities, and top 10 Liberal Arts colleges. ND and Georgetown are included. BC isn’t.

National Universities included:
Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Penn, Caltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, Emory, Georgetown, UNC Chapel Hill, UVA.

Liberal Arts Colleges included:
Williams, Amherst, U.S. Naval Academy, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, U.S. Air Force Academy, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Wellesley, Carleton, Harvey Mudd, West Point.

Historic official results:

70+%
Brearley (61): 71% | 2021-2025

60-70%
Spence (64): 67% | 2021-2025
Dalton (87): 66% | 2019-2024
Riverdale (116): 64% | 2020-2025
Chapin (60): 61% | 2021-2025
Collegiate (52): 60% | 2020-2024

50-60%
Horace Mann (180): 53% | 2023-2025 *** lower bound; max 65% if all 16 uncounted target schools have 4 each
Saint Ann’s (86): 53% | 2024-2025

40-50%
Nightingale (57): 47% | 2021-2025
Fieldston (120): 43% | 2020-2025
Regis (130): 41% | 2022-2025

30-40%
Friends Seminary (74): 39% | 2021-2025
Packer (96): 38% | 2021-2025
Browning (25): 35% | 2021-2025
Sacred Heart (56): 31% | 2021-2025
Avenues (91): 31% | 2023

20-30%
Poly Prep (128): 27% | 2021-2025
Marymount (50): 27% | 2020-2024
Dwight-Englewood (124): 26% | 2023-2025

Tier moves vs Ivy+WASP:

Up 2 tiers:
Riverdale: 40-50% → 60-70%
Chapin: 40-50% → 60-70%
Fieldston: 20-30% → 40-50%
Regis: 20-30% → 40-50%
Packer: 10-20% → 30-40%
Avenues: 10-20% → 30-40%
Sacred Heart: 10-20% → 30-40%

Up 1 tier:
Brearley: 60-70% → 70+%
Spence: 50-60% → 60-70%
Dalton: 50-60% → 60-70%
Collegiate: 50-60% → 60-70%
Horace Mann: 40-50% → 50-60%
Saint Ann’s: 40-50% → 50-60%
Nightingale: 30-40% → 40-50%
Friends Seminary: 20-30% → 30-40%
Browning: 20-30% → 30-40%
Marymount: 10-20% → 20-30%
Poly Prep: 10-20% → 20-30%
Dwight-Englewood: 10-20% → 20-30%

Down tiers: none.
Same tier: none.

Regis and CSH moved up two buckets, Marymount moved up one.


Avenues' numbers seem too high. Where did you get their 2023 matriculation? Their website lists 2023-2025 matriculation, but not 2023 matriculation.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 11:10     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote: I was curious about what someone said about Regis so I looked up two of their school profiles 2024 (for 21-24) and 25 and noticed two things

One this:
For REGIS 2021-2025 (used 21-24 and then 25), total on their site:

Ivy+ detail:
Ivies = 96 (6+8+11+26+5+14+9+5+9+3)
Stanford = 1
MIT = 3
Caltech = 2
UChicago = 12
Duke = 8
Johns Hopkins = 4
Northwestern = 6
Vanderbilt =3
So Ivy+ = 135 / 650 = 21.0%.

REGIS WASP detail:
Williams = 14
Amherst = 0
Swarthmore = 1
Pomona = 0
So WASP adds 15.

Two this:
27 to ND
50 to Georgetown
35 to BC

Those are giant numbers. I suspect they have kids (and/or parents) preferring ND/GU/even BC to places like Cornell or JHU. Fit matters.


I expanded to US News Top 26 (25/26 are tied) National Universities, and top 10 Liberal Arts colleges. ND and Georgetown are included. BC isn’t.

National Universities included:
Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Penn, Caltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, Emory, Georgetown, UNC Chapel Hill, UVA.

Liberal Arts Colleges included:
Williams, Amherst, U.S. Naval Academy, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, U.S. Air Force Academy, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Wellesley, Carleton, Harvey Mudd, West Point.

Historic official results:

70+%
Brearley (61): 71% | 2021-2025

60-70%
Spence (64): 67% | 2021-2025
Dalton (87): 66% | 2019-2024
Riverdale (116): 64% | 2020-2025
Chapin (60): 61% | 2021-2025
Collegiate (52): 60% | 2020-2024

50-60%
Horace Mann (180): 53% | 2023-2025 *** lower bound; max 65% if all 16 uncounted target schools have 4 each
Saint Ann’s (86): 53% | 2024-2025

40-50%
Nightingale (57): 47% | 2021-2025
Fieldston (120): 43% | 2020-2025
Regis (130): 41% | 2022-2025

30-40%
Friends Seminary (74): 39% | 2021-2025
Packer (96): 38% | 2021-2025
Browning (25): 35% | 2021-2025
Sacred Heart (56): 31% | 2021-2025
Avenues (91): 31% | 2023

20-30%
Poly Prep (128): 27% | 2021-2025
Marymount (50): 27% | 2020-2024
Dwight-Englewood (124): 26% | 2023-2025

Tier moves vs Ivy+WASP:

Up 2 tiers:
Riverdale: 40-50% → 60-70%
Chapin: 40-50% → 60-70%
Fieldston: 20-30% → 40-50%
Regis: 20-30% → 40-50%
Packer: 10-20% → 30-40%
Avenues: 10-20% → 30-40%
Sacred Heart: 10-20% → 30-40%

Up 1 tier:
Brearley: 60-70% → 70+%
Spence: 50-60% → 60-70%
Dalton: 50-60% → 60-70%
Collegiate: 50-60% → 60-70%
Horace Mann: 40-50% → 50-60%
Saint Ann’s: 40-50% → 50-60%
Nightingale: 30-40% → 40-50%
Friends Seminary: 20-30% → 30-40%
Browning: 20-30% → 30-40%
Marymount: 10-20% → 20-30%
Poly Prep: 10-20% → 20-30%
Dwight-Englewood: 10-20% → 20-30%

Down tiers: none.
Same tier: none.

Regis and CSH moved up two buckets, Marymount moved up one.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 10:50     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: I was curious about what someone said about Regis so I looked up two of their school profiles 2024 (for 21-24) and 25 and noticed two things

One this:
For REGIS 2021-2025 (used 21-24 and then 25), total on their site:

Ivy+ detail:
Ivies = 96 (6+8+11+26+5+14+9+5+9+3)
Stanford = 1
MIT = 3
Caltech = 2
UChicago = 12
Duke = 8
Johns Hopkins = 4
Northwestern = 6
Vanderbilt =3
So Ivy+ = 135 / 650 = 21.0%.

REGIS WASP detail:
Williams = 14
Amherst = 0
Swarthmore = 1
Pomona = 0
So WASP adds 15.

Two this:
27 to ND
50 to Georgetown
35 to BC

Those are giant numbers. I suspect they have kids (and/or parents) preferring ND/GU/even BC to places like Cornell or JHU. Fit matters.

Regis's average SAT score is higher than all NYC privates except Trinity and Brearley, perhaps Collegiate. These exmissions tallies are useful, but need to be taken with a grain of salt. They give a very incomplete picture.


What is the reliable source for Regis's average SAT score? Or other private schools'?


It's been a while since I've done this, but the schools themselves publish "school profiles" to provide context to college admissions officers. If you spend the time, you can find all the most recent ones. A quick google search for me, though, turned up Trinity 2019, HM 2018, and Regis 2024. If/when you do the work, you're going to find that Regis is above Horace Mann and below Trinity.

https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/390/misc/misc_168309.pdf
https://www.horacemann.org/uploaded/HoraceMann/PDFs/College_Counseling/HM_School_Profile_2018-19.pdf
https://www.regis.org/downloads/2024%20Regis%20School%20Final%20Profile-v1-1.pdf

Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 10:47     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Regis is a great school, don't need to look at SAT etc.

it's a great free education that is hard to top unless you have lots of money.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 10:34     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: I was curious about what someone said about Regis so I looked up two of their school profiles 2024 (for 21-24) and 25 and noticed two things

One this:
For REGIS 2021-2025 (used 21-24 and then 25), total on their site:

Ivy+ detail:
Ivies = 96 (6+8+11+26+5+14+9+5+9+3)
Stanford = 1
MIT = 3
Caltech = 2
UChicago = 12
Duke = 8
Johns Hopkins = 4
Northwestern = 6
Vanderbilt =3
So Ivy+ = 135 / 650 = 21.0%.

REGIS WASP detail:
Williams = 14
Amherst = 0
Swarthmore = 1
Pomona = 0
So WASP adds 15.

Two this:
27 to ND
50 to Georgetown
35 to BC

Those are giant numbers. I suspect they have kids (and/or parents) preferring ND/GU/even BC to places like Cornell or JHU. Fit matters.

Regis's average SAT score is higher than all NYC privates except Trinity and Brearley, perhaps Collegiate. These exmissions tallies are useful, but need to be taken with a grain of salt. They give a very incomplete picture.


What is the reliable source for Regis's average SAT score? Or other private schools'?
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 10:20     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote: I was curious about what someone said about Regis so I looked up two of their school profiles 2024 (for 21-24) and 25 and noticed two things

One this:
For REGIS 2021-2025 (used 21-24 and then 25), total on their site:

Ivy+ detail:
Ivies = 96 (6+8+11+26+5+14+9+5+9+3)
Stanford = 1
MIT = 3
Caltech = 2
UChicago = 12
Duke = 8
Johns Hopkins = 4
Northwestern = 6
Vanderbilt =3
So Ivy+ = 135 / 650 = 21.0%.

REGIS WASP detail:
Williams = 14
Amherst = 0
Swarthmore = 1
Pomona = 0
So WASP adds 15.

Two this:
27 to ND
50 to Georgetown
35 to BC

Those are giant numbers. I suspect they have kids (and/or parents) preferring ND/GU/even BC to places like Cornell or JHU. Fit matters.


100% agree. If you include the top catholic/jesuit schools, Regis, Sacred Heart, and Marymount will all look much better. Regis also has a mandate to serve families that could not otherwise afford this sort of education. They have kids are choosing full rides at Rutgers over the Ivy League. If you are aiming for a full pay spot at an Ivy, this works in your favor. Less competition for spots.

Regis's average SAT score is higher than all NYC privates except Trinity and Brearley, perhaps Collegiate. These exmissions tallies are useful, but need to be taken with a grain of salt. They give a very incomplete picture.

Anonymous
Post 06/02/2026 09:12     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

I was curious about what someone said about Regis so I looked up two of their school profiles 2024 (for 21-24) and 25 and noticed two things

One this:
For REGIS 2021-2025 (used 21-24 and then 25), total on their site:

Ivy+ detail:
Ivies = 96 (6+8+11+26+5+14+9+5+9+3)
Stanford = 1
MIT = 3
Caltech = 2
UChicago = 12
Duke = 8
Johns Hopkins = 4
Northwestern = 6
Vanderbilt =3
So Ivy+ = 135 / 650 = 21.0%.

REGIS WASP detail:
Williams = 14
Amherst = 0
Swarthmore = 1
Pomona = 0
So WASP adds 15.

Two this:
27 to ND
50 to Georgetown
35 to BC

Those are giant numbers. I suspect they have kids (and/or parents) preferring ND/GU/even BC to places like Cornell or JHU. Fit matters.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2026 22:56     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

I see, so Ivy+wasp means Ivy plus + wasp.

Is Vandy one of the pluses now?
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2026 22:31     Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

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.


I believe Collegiate also reports 5-year data on it's website.


School (N/yr): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+ | Years
Brearley (61): 60%; 19%; 53% | 2021-2025
Spence (64): 54%; 17%; 50% | 2021-2025
Collegiate (52): 52%; 12%; 48% | 2020-2024
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; badges <5 students


Not the PP but if you tier her table by 10% increments on Ivy+WASP, you get these.

50+%
Brearley (61): 60%; 19%; 53% | 2021-2025
Spence (64): 54%; 17%; 50% | 2021-2025
Collegiate (52): 52%; 12%; 48% | 2020-2024
Dalton (87): 52%; 16%; 48% | 2019-2024

40-50%
Horace Mann (180): 42%; 6%; 42% | 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
Riverdale (116): 46%; 11%; 43% | 2020-2025
Saint Ann's (86): 45%; 13%; 35% | 2024-2025
Chapin (60): 43%; 11%; 38% | 2021-2025

30-40%
Nightingale (57): 33%; 6%; 28% | 2021-2025

20-30%
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

10-20%
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

I wish I saw this 3 years ago when DD did K admissions. Fit was obviously important (who best to judge fit though than her interviewer who knows the school better than an open house and tour), but this is much more objective than the relative advice we got once we narrowed down (or were narrowed down) on fit.


A lot of these numbers are off quite a bit.

HM only lists colleges where "five or more HM graduates" matriculated during 2023 to 2025. It doesn't list colleges wherein 1-4 HM graduates matriculated. So the percentage is inaccurate.

Nightingale ivy+wasp percentage should be 23% not 33% (68 kids in five years to ivy+wasp, class size 60).
many others are off too.


I’m the PP table poster.

Ivy+ = Ivies + Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt
WASP = Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona
Ivy+WASP = union of those two buckets


For Nightingale 2021-2025, total on their site: 286.

Ivy+ detail:
Ivies = 55
Stanford = 0
MIT = 1
Caltech = 1
UChicago = 2
Duke = 7
Johns Hopkins = 0
Northwestern = 7
Vanderbilt = 7
So Ivy+ = 80 / 286 = 28.0%.

Nightingale WASP detail:
Williams = 5
Amherst = 7
Swarthmore = 1
Pomona = 0
So WASP adds 13.

Therefore Nightingale Ivy+WASP = 80 + 13 = 93 / 286 = 32.5%, rounded to 33%.
HYPSM = Harvard 3 + Yale 9 + Princeton 5 + Stanford 0 + MIT 1 = 18 / 286 = 6.3%, rounded to 6%.

So the Nightingale line is:
Nightingale (57): 33%; 6%; 28% | 2021-2025

I think your 23.8% number might have dropped the “Plus”: Ivies + WASP only = 55 + 13 = 68 / 286 = 23.8%. It excludes MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, etc.

For Horace Mann, current lower-bound line is:
Horace Mann (180): 42%; 6%; 42% | 2023-2025
That is 227/539 Ivy+WASP, 33/539 HYPSM, 227/539 Ivy+.

The missing sub-5 schools called out are Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams. If each had the max possible 4 students:
Ivy+WASP adds 20 → 247/539 = 45.8%, rounded 46%
HYPSM adds 8 from Stanford + MIT → 41/539 = 7.6%, rounded 8%
Ivy+ adds 12 from Stanford + MIT + Caltech → 239/539 = 44.3%, rounded 44%

So Horace Mann max under that assumption is:
Horace Mann (180): 46%; 8%; 44% | 2023-2025 *** upper-bound if Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams each have 4

Does that address the rest of the “lots” that are off by a bit?
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2026 22:16     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The kids get fixated on wealth and talk about it non-stop. The only other place I remember kids this age talking about money this much was Great Neck.


Ah great neck singled out of all the suburbs. Tell me you’re an anti semite without saying you’re an anti semite


Do Jews even live in great neck anymore?

Anonymous
Post 06/01/2026 22:15     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The kids get fixated on wealth and talk about it non-stop. The only other place I remember kids this age talking about money this much was Great Neck.


Ah great neck singled out of all the suburbs. Tell me you’re an anti semite without saying you’re an anti semite


1. Great Neck is actually now very Asian, less Jewish. I was just speaking to a Chinese-American colleague who ironically doesn't want to move there because it is too Asian...
2. I'm Jewish and I will be the first to admit that back in my day, Great Neck was the ultimate case study in tacky conspicuous consumption. That's not anti-Semitic. It is fact. Though I am generally not a big fan of most of Long Island in general.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2026 21:55     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote:The kids get fixated on wealth and talk about it non-stop. The only other place I remember kids this age talking about money this much was Great Neck.


In what grade does this occur?

My high schooler knows who’s loaded and who is not.

My middle schooler has no idea although all her friends are broadly my guess in the 5-50mm range
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2026 21:52     Subject: Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

Anonymous wrote:
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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.


The suburb kid will come to learn grit and resilience through their HS experience, while you might have your child pick up rich kid habits (relying on parent's money) at the private HS. I don't think you will be able to magically turnoff the spending once you go down that path. They will want the same as their peer group. As an adult it takes a level of maturity to be able to handle the wealth disparity that is in your face while living in NYC, I don't know if I would want to subject my child (less mature) to it.



I am pp. grew up in the burbs. Loved it. And so agree on the kids. On the one hand I feel like they are spoiled entitled kids but I don’t want them to go thru the suburban hs experience. (The college game part).

I don’t think the wealth thing in nyc as big of a deal. We are comfortable. But not nyc wealthy. Not even close. But it doesn’t impact us day to day.


It is fairly direct when people ask what you do for a living and where you live. Ask where you summer and if you are in the Hamptons on the weekend. The schools are also very direct with how they fundraise and seating arrangement at the gala.
where we sit at the gala doesn’t impact me day to day.

I guess we don’t really meet a ton of new people because the people we kind of hang out with or are friends don’t care as much.

If someone starts bragging about their 20mm summer house on the beach I will just exit the conversation. But rarely do I come across those type of people.
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Post 06/01/2026 21:49     Subject: Re:Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

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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.


I believe Collegiate also reports 5-year data on it's website.


School (N/yr): Ivy+WASP; H/Y/P/S/M; Ivy+ | Years
Brearley (61): 60%; 19%; 53% | 2021-2025
Spence (64): 54%; 17%; 50% | 2021-2025
Collegiate (52): 52%; 12%; 48% | 2020-2024
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; badges <5 students


Not the PP but if you tier her table by 10% increments on Ivy+WASP, you get these.

50+%
Brearley (61): 60%; 19%; 53% | 2021-2025
Spence (64): 54%; 17%; 50% | 2021-2025
Collegiate (52): 52%; 12%; 48% | 2020-2024
Dalton (87): 52%; 16%; 48% | 2019-2024

40-50%
Horace Mann (180): 42%; 6%; 42% | 2023-2025 *** lower bound; missing Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams; <5 students
Riverdale (116): 46%; 11%; 43% | 2020-2025
Saint Ann's (86): 45%; 13%; 35% | 2024-2025
Chapin (60): 43%; 11%; 38% | 2021-2025

30-40%
Nightingale (57): 33%; 6%; 28% | 2021-2025

20-30%
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

10-20%
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

I wish I saw this 3 years ago when DD did K admissions. Fit was obviously important (who best to judge fit though than her interviewer who knows the school better than an open house and tour), but this is much more objective than the relative advice we got once we narrowed down (or were narrowed down) on fit.


A lot of these numbers are off quite a bit.

HM only lists colleges where "five or more HM graduates" matriculated during 2023 to 2025. It doesn't list colleges wherein 1-4 HM graduates matriculated. So the percentage is inaccurate.

Nightingale ivy+wasp percentage should be 23% not 33% (68 kids in five years to ivy+wasp, class size 60).
many others are off too.
they are using just this years data from IG.

The previous five years I think colleges were on the equity and inclusion extreme push and the rich private school kids did worse. That has thankfully (for our family) gone to the side.