Stuyvesant vs. Townshendharris vs. Horrace Mann

mattmom
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:15:47 +0000

Stuyvesant is free. Horace Mann is wonderful but expensive. If you are lucky enough to get into Stuyvesant it is clearly a better financial choice, and given how expensive private schools are nowadays that is a real factor–you might be surprised how many kids from quite affluent NYC families switch from good private elementary and middle schools to Stuyvesant if they get in. You will probably get more individualiszed attention at Horace Mann, but at a minimum iof $20,000 a year, that’a a lot to pay if an equally good academic option is available for free. To some extent, comparing Stuyvesant and HM is apples and oranges. You and your parents would really have to think about this one, because it isn’t a matter of better or worse exactly but of quite different experiences. and it may be that if your family can afford HM you will be applying to other very good private schools as alternatives if you don’t get in to Stuyvesant.

I suspect Townshend Harris (spell it right on your app–it is named after a person!) is not in the same league reputationally. I don’t know about substantively.