Feeder Schools: Guaranteed to help for 9-12?

prpdd
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:04:25 +0000

Don’t know anything about west coast schools. But I do know a little about NYC and Boston “feeder schools”. In NYC there are definitely a number of elite schools that regularly send a large portion of their 8th and 9th grade classes to top boarding schools. Spence, Chapin, Brearly, Collegiate, Dalton, Buckley, St. Bernards, Horace Mann all come to mind. (Note many of these schools go through 12th grade and are very succesful at getting their students into top colleges. Also, Spence, Chapin and Brearly sp? are for girls only). That’s the good news. The bad news is that many of these schools are as competative, if not more competative than the top boarding schools. They are looking for the very bright children of successful, wealthy, socially connected parents.