<p>I just got into dalton and i was wondering if you guys could give me some info.</p>
<p>CONGRATS!!! anderson cooper went to dalton!</p>
<p>how is school life</p>
<p>my friends from brearley party with dalton guys lol. i heard they are pretty artsy.</p>
<p>No personal connection–but I think their middle school booklists are the best on the internet–some of my son’s favorite books/authors came from those lists. Couldn’t have kept him in books without them.</p>
<p>[Dalton</a> Middle School Library 2010 Summer Reading List: for Upcoming 7th and 8th Graders](<a href=“http://blogs.dalton.org/mslibrary/2010-summer-reading-list-for-upcoming-7th-and-8th-graders/]Dalton”>http://blogs.dalton.org/mslibrary/2010-summer-reading-list-for-upcoming-7th-and-8th-graders/)</p>
<p>haha nice…partying up</p>
<p>Ideal Upper East Side location, preppy lax bro culture, hefty price tag, impressive facilities.</p>
<p>^^It always amazes me when people post on these boards things they know nothing about. Dalton is the ultimate anti-prep. It has been created as an “antidote” to traditional Upper East Side schools, emphasizes “progressive” education and goes out of their way to attract minority enrollment for its high school.</p>
<p>What % of their students are minority?</p>
<p>Diversity Statement from the
Head of School
Dalton is committed with clear intention to being a diverse learning community. The school strives, not only to reach this goal, but to explain why it is one of our priorities and how it can be achieved. To do this, there must be a continuing dialogue among us all. Dalton’s substantive commitment to becoming a multicultural community takes clarity of purpose that can be reached only when we share our thinking and our goals. It is in that spirit that I want to share a few of my thoughts</p>
<p>Welcome from the Director of Diversity
As Dalton celebrates 90 years of leadership in progressive education, we affirm our commitment to diversity as a central component of academic excellence. Preparing students for a complex and interdependent world requires an education that reflects the history, cultures, beliefs, and perspectives of the global society in which children live, as well as knowledge of an inclusive, democratic community derived from direct experience. The diversity mission embedded in the policy and procedures of the Board of Trustees is made explicit in the Strategic Plan, a multifaceted, community-wide agenda, which mandates the continued recruitment and retention of a diverse student body, faculty, administration, and staff, the development of inclusive curricula, ongoing education on complex cultural issues, measures to determine accountability and progress, and equal access for all community members to participate fully in the life of the school.</p>
<p>rhetoric is nice, but numbers only please.</p>
<p>yeah adding on to mhmm i never knew dalton as a preppy school. my friend said that her friends at dalton are all pretty artsy actually. and laxbros in new york city? please.</p>
<p>ylax – nyc laxbros - have you ever seen baby pigeons? yes there are nyc laxbros, they all go to pre-preps in nyc. Trust me, Ive driven enough of them to away games!</p>
<p>pulsar - I may be wrong, but from what I know, nyc schools dont put numbers in their materials, except $numbers 
. In a perfect world numbers would be extremely fluid year to year, depending on who the applicants are. When a percent stays the same year in year out, it tells me that the school is trying too hard and is keeping numbers artificially. I cant respect that.</p>
<p>Hi jchi88—
I go to Dalton and I’m going to be a sophomore this fall. Shoot me any questions that you want to!</p>
<p>@mhmm most of those kinds of posts on its website, to be honest, are a joke-----don’t take them seriously</p>
<p>My program (which happens to be pretty well known in NY when it comes to private school, i doubt you’ve heard of it, the TEAK Fellowship) does summer enrichment classes there, or did… this year we’re doing it at Hewitt because Dalton needed the space. It’s really cool and easy to navigate through, unlike Hewitt which is like a maze :/</p>
<p>CONGRATS!!! My friend with a 99% SSAT got WL for FA</p>
<p>yeah the building is basically like a rectangular box with stairwells on each side and a central hallway with classrooms branching off.</p>
<p>classicalmama–You’re right: it’s a nice reading list. They’ve misspelled Chaim Potok’s name though.</p>
<p>Pulsar–Dalton lower school is among the most diverse of independent schools in the city (probably around 35%). I don’t know the high school figures. They give a lot of financial aid also.</p>
<p>Yeah the school is really making an effort now to make it more diverse now, so the lower school is great. However, the high school isn’t that diverse—my grade is mostly jewish</p>
<p>@classicalmama The high school library is probably the school’s best facility. It’s great :)</p>