<p>new prepdad … I would look at Brunswick. I don’t think St. Luke’s, GreensFarms, or Wooster will work for you with the emphasis on athletics.</p>
<p>Hopkins is probably too far for you (New Haven) along with Choate. My perception is that it’s a good school … not for either of my sons, mostly due to geography.</p>
<p>Most of the kids in our area (central Fairfield County) that want hockey go to Taft, Salisbury, or another Connecticut boarding school.</p>
<p>About the 2 best public schools in NYC: The whole class was cheating on the Stuyvesant Admission’s Test (Specialized High School Test) when the proctor literally “left” the room. This is all giving me second thoughts about the school. And as for Hunter College High School, the same situation may occur. In addition, all my friends there claim the school provides the resourcces but many teachers just don’t care.</p>
<p>cnp55- yup. If we were to go the boarding school route, you are right. It would be Taft, Salisbury etc. They’re among the biggies in hockey.</p>
<p>newprepdad: give St Paul’s a closer look</p>
<p>All three Hilltop schools, Horace Mann, Riverdale, and Fieldston, are excellent academically. I know Westchester kids that go to each. It’s really mostly about fit and vibe. There’s also some concrete differences to think about in terms of curriculum, size of school etc. Horace Mann is bigger for example. They may have changed it, but I believe at one point, Fieldston did not offer AP classes, which might be important to some. Riverdale has two excellent but required core courses 11th and 12th grade- some might like this, others might be turned off. </p>
<p>As for the suit at Riverdale re admissions policies that purpoisepal refers to, a lawyer friend of mine thought the plaintiff’s case was without merit, although he (a former staff member) might have a case for damages regarding lead exposure in school provided housing. I know really nice kids going to all three schools (but of course I have also heard scuttlebutt about all three schools). A serious scholar can get a good education at any one of them; but if you go in there looking for parties you’ll probably find it somewhere.</p>
<p>Of the Westchester schools, Masters seems less challenging than the Hilltop schools. However, it seems like a very supportive environment and might work better for a less academically adept student. The Hilltop schools are very demanding. There’s no faking it and no bsing your way through.</p>
<p>in response to a WAAAY earlier post:
milton definitely isn’t a day school. over 50% of the population is comprised of boarders. the day students we have are mostly students who have progressed through the lower/middle school, which holds about 40 students per grade (out of about 140 in the class). the rest of the population is, essentially, comprised of boarders.</p>
<p>In the Silicon Valley area:</p>
<p>Religiously affiliated:</p>
<p>Bellarmine (All boys)
Presentation (All girls)
St. Francis (coed)
Archbishop Mitty (coed)</p>
<p>Regular:</p>
<p>Harker School (coed)
Castilleja (all girls)</p>
<p>Yeah, I think those are the top schools. Im sure there are a few more that I’ve forgotten.</p>
<p>DC area:</p>
<p>St. Alban’s/National Cathedral School, Georgetown Prep, Landon, Gonzaga College High School, and DeMatha for athletics. </p>
<p>yeah I would also add georgetown day school and sidwell friends and even Maret
The new list would probably be,
STA/NCS, Sidwell, GDS, Maret, Landon, Georgetown Prep/Georgetown Visi., and Gonzaga I guess.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Holton Arms - high in the list above in my opinion, despite some earlier comments about Holton relative to NCS. And I have no Holton connection/loyalty.</p>
<p>longuyland:
vincent smith school(JKJK…its mi escuela i hate it its a ****ty ass school)
catholic(Topnotch ones on longuyland theres a few):
Chaminade(boys)
Kellenberg(CoED)
Sacred Heart(gurls)
REgular:
Waldorf<3 imma sister of a alumni…good school
portledge</p>
<p>Western MA - Berkshire Country Day School, which is closing soon for finacial reasons.</p>
<p>Funny story - my sister dropped out of public school to do homeschooling (she is a junior), and our (public school) principal tried to convince her not to drop out but to go to a different school, and he said, “You could try BCD, that’s a great school.” Everyone in the room fell silent. “Yes,” my dad goes, “it would be a great school for half a semester, until they close.” The principal looked pretty dumb. He should have known that.</p>
<p>Truth be told, though, I really don’t like my school principal. Long story short, he has an epithet that involves a famous genocidal dictator.</p>
<p>In the US:</p>
<ol>
<li>St. Paul’s</li>
<li>Exeter</li>
<li>Andover</li>
</ol>
<p>babouche, are you trying to make st paul’s a day school? By the way, your vote with regard to st. Paul’s is too biased. smile
best school is very subjective. before you go off on SPS matrics to the ivies, I would need some info on exactly how many of those are legacies and other things that may tilt the number. Show me the numbers! smile again</p>
<p>oops! oh well, it’s the best school during the day, at night? I’m not sure</p>
<p>For the poster who was commenting on the Stuyvesant High School test - my son is currently a student at Stuyvesant - he did not encounter any cheating at all going on when he took the test. There are approximately 25,000 students who take the Specialied H.S exam in NYC and only 800 are admitted to Stuy. I’m not saying necessarily that these are the smartest kids, but they certainly are the best test takers. I believe the average SAT’s scores at Stuy are well into the mid 1400’s. The same goes for Hunter H.S. in NY. The odds for admittance to Hunter is even tougher because it’s a smaller school. Their average SAT scores are about the same as Stuyvesant’s - the math is lower but the verbal is higher.</p>
<p>What are the acceptance rates for Stuyvesant and Hunter?</p>
<p>Stuyvesant’s college acceptance rate is very impressive. About 20% go on to the Ivies, (and I mean the original 8 Ivies). Another 5% go on to Stanford, MIT, Duke, Cal Tech. The competition is fierce and it is very tough for a kid like my son - who tests amazingly well but doesn’t have a GPA that is in Ivy category. However, on the other hand, since the school is so well known most ad comms will look at a student’s GPA there and tack on many points, (80% is viewed as 85-90%, 85% is viewed as 90+%, etc). Believe it or not, students have gotten into schools like Penn State, Wisc-Madison, UMD with 80+% averages. You can get into Mich with an 88% average.</p>
<p>I believe Hunter is the same way - they get many of their graduates into the Ivies as well as other top tier schools.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I meant the acceptance rates for kids applying to Stuyvesant and Hunter.</p>
<p>Yeah, the prep school I’m applying to is in Ann Arbor, and a lot of the kids’ parents are profressors there. It sends about 25 students per year to Mich. out of about 80 who graduate. University of Michigan gives applicants from Greenhills a .4 GPA increase and .2 for DCDS and .2 for Cranbrook.</p>
<p>Jonathan- Hunter: for entry in 7th grade (which is when HCHS starts) about 2500 students in NYC apply for only about 240 spots. </p>
<p>Stuy has a much bigger class, but I think also a larger applicant pool, it should be about the same percentages (though every Hunter grad I know says that Hunter is more competitive than Stuy).</p>
<p>NYC is a tough one, since every private school is significantly different from the other, and each attracts a certain kind of student.</p>
<p>But as for the ones that are frequently sending off the double digits to HPY, I’d have to list the top three as Trinity, Brearly, and Collegiate (Co-ed, all girls, all boys…)</p>
<p>But, I think it’s worth mentioning that it’s all about what school works best for a certain kind of student… I go to none of the above and we’re already sending (Out of 60 kids) 1 to Princeton, 1 to Harvard, 2 to Brown 3 to UPenn, 2 to Northwestern, etc… and that’s only ED.</p>