<p>"At the Collegiate School [on the Upper West Side], they won’t send your transcript out to a second college if you get in somewhere early, even if the admission isn’t binding.” </p>
<p>Can they do that? Wouldn’t people sue them for that as well?</p>
<p>I presume that the parents signed a contract upon entry to the school, agreeing to abide by the school’s decisions in such matters. I have no way to know if that’s true, but I think that would be an effective way to prevent lawsuits.</p>
<p>Or, this might be something which families discover in the spring of senior year. You rely upon your high school for many things. Is it wise to risk antagonizing the school over this? After all, the school must send out your final transcript to colleges. Lawsuits aren’t resolved in a few months. Do you want to put your acceptance at Middlebury at risk, because you’d like to also apply to Dartmouth? </p>
<p>I don’t know the answer. I suspect that parents agree to everything in a contract upon entry to the school.</p>
<p>Its not only at Collegiate but at the 8 “interschool” independent schools in nyc (and perhaps the “hill” (Horace Mann, Riverdale, Fieldston)schools. However, they will send out the transcripts/recs, etc, just not many – generally 2. In terms of steering students to particular colleges – its all about managing expectations.</p>
<p>Does that mean they only allow each student to apply to two colleges???</p>
<p>If a student applied and got into a college EA, then the policy is that they may only then apply to one or two colleges at the outmost. It doesnt apply to rolling admission colleges that students apply to, for the most part, very early (September).</p>
<p>IB - more colleges are preferring it to AP as they feel that you can learn more in IVY freshman english than BS/PHS AP English. Some are no longer even accepting APs. Note the admissions committees still look at them and IB</p>
<p>Also note that in the top ten list above, I know one child whe was accepted to Juliard and told not to go, but to go to Yale the first year to help their %s.</p>
<p>any info on current matriculation 2009 for the top nyc schools such as Brearly, Collegiate or Dalton?</p>
<p>This is an interesting article, beyond the implications for NYC private school grads. The underlying theme is that top private schools don’t hold the same cards they used to for getting kids into Ivies. Parents, you know who you are, take the matriculation data with a grain of salt and focus on the other values of BS</p>
<p>[Private</a> School Rejects | Page Six Magazine | The New York Post](<a href=“http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20080629/Private+School+Rejects?page=2]Private”>http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20080629/Private+School+Rejects?page=2)</p>
<p>I find it shocking that a secondary school believes it can dictate the maximum number of applications for seniors or refuse to send transcripts after a non-binding EA acceptance. Andover places no limits on the number of applications or the mailing of transcripts except after binding commitments. Whether they do the type of brokering implicated in the article (horse-trading to get as many kids as possible into top schools by avoiding cross-admits) I couldn’t say, but it is clearly not an absolute practice because many students are admitted to multiple Ivy and tier 1 universities. </p>
<p>It’s not a perfect measure by any means as many students are best served by LACs, state universities or other excellent colleges/universities, but PA had a great year with more than 1/3 of the graduating class accepting Ivy+SM admissions offers for the fall.</p>