<p>I am applying to some nyc high schools and i have read all the applications, etc. but I really would like to hear from people who actually know the places. Can anyone help me get a real life picture somehow? Appreciate it.</p>
<p>I am applying to
dalton,
Riverdale country schol
horace mann
little red/elizabeth irwin hs
trevor day
fieldston
rudolf steiner</p>
<p>I know someone who goes to Fieldston and he loves it- smart kids, small, interesting classes, excellent teachers, great reputation overall. I know that doesn't help much, but hearing him talk about it, it definitely seems like most students are very happy there.</p>
<p>Dalton is a druggie school and a lot of the kids who go there are really rich and kind of jappy/waspy, but I know a few nice kids from there. I always thought that Riverdale had a really nice student body (their school is gorgeous) but my friend who goes to Horace Mann says the girls there are the biggest b*tches in the private school community (NYC-wise). Horace Mann is a really good school with a really nice campus. The kids are smart, you'll find a lot of rich japs/wasps, but I guess you'll find that everywhere, um, there are a lot of drugs there and they're always in some scandal. But it's a good school. It's the best one on your list. Be careful, though, because it's really competitve and not for everybody. LWEI is a progressive school downtown, and I don't know much about it, but it's nowhere near the rest of the schools on your list academically. I know a girl who goes to Trevor Day, and she's sweet and she likes it, but I actually don't know anything about the school itself, other than the fact that it's not great. Fieldston is known as the "party school" but I guess people party hard at all the hill schools, so it's not really that much more of a party school than the other 2 hill schools. It's pretty good academically, and I don't know anything about the reputation of the kids there, but it's comparable to Horace Mann and Riverdale. Rudolph Steiner is a really tiny school. It's like, out of a townhouse. It's really small. It's not really that good but they have a really interesting way of teaching. It's cute. Depending on where you want to go to college, though, and what kind of person you are, it might not be the right school for you. It's progressive. I don't know anyone who goes there. </p>
<p>What middle school are you coming from? You can PM me if you don't want to post it...</p>
<p>Maybe you should post this in the Prep School Admissions Forum if you haven't already.</p>
<p>i currently am in brooklyn ny and go Edward R. Murrow HS. Its a good public schools very safe and hardly any fights</p>
<p>Are you going to take the Stuy test? </p>
<p>Also, you should visit these schools and learn more about them. Some of the schools on this list are radically different from the rest of them, and it's hard to understand how you came up with this list. Don't go to a school just because of its academic reputation. You don't want to get stuck at a school with an atmosphere you don't like.</p>
<p>thanks ..hmmm. there's really not that many choices in nyc but since I am staying here, I tried to come up with a wide range of schools. Also, it seems so competitive, you can't assume that if you apply to the best schools you will get in, even if you have grades and scores, right. so, unless you re applying to boarding school, which holds no interest to me, logically, don't you have to have more than what to me seems like the traditional choices. I know that there are a couple of schools I would not even entertain because of the repeatedly bad things I have heard from their own students. Every school has negative issues but wow, some schools just seem to a lot of negatives. I am not sure if posting in prep school would be useful because tha forum seems geared for boarding schools, but I may be wrong. Any other helpful observations would be great and thank you to everyone who has responded.</p>
<p>also, anyone know anything about Birch W. Lenox Hill?</p>
<p>Birch Wathen Lenox is where all the kids who got kicked out of their better private schools go. Two girls from my school go there (both left after 6th grade). One got kicked out for ditching school to go drinking and the other one left after failing half of her classes. Other people who go there may have gotten kicked out of their schools for drugs, severe learning disabilities, and other issues. You don't want to go there if you can help it. </p>
<p>Trevor Day's a good safety school. Also, look at the Brooklyn schools. Packer is supposed to be good, I know a bunch of really sweet kids from Berkeley Carroll, St. Anne's is supposed to be good but full of goths, um...and Poly Prep isn't terrible, either. Oh, and look at UNIS (united nations international school), too. It has a pretty good IB program, but I think it's what you make of it. Like, it can be easy or hard.</p>
<p>rudolf steiner aint for ne one like my middle sister went to another nearby to that waldorf school(Waldorf school of gc) and went n-12 but i only went nursery school and my other sister only went k-5</p>
<p>I looked over the Little Red/Elizabeth Irwin "where our gradutes go" list not just the accepted but where they actually went and this year's past graduates are now in a variety of colleges from Yale, U of Penn, Cornell, Brown, Harvard, etc. so is that a shabby list? Does any one else know anything else about this school? I also heard that Juniors and Seniors can take freshman classes at NYU? That's pretty cool.</p>
<p>Look at the numbers next to the schools. In three years, 1 person got into Yale, 1 person got into UPenn, 1 got into Cornell, 4 got into Columbia, 2 got into Brown, 0 got into Harvard, etc. So yeah, that's a pretty shabby list. And LREI is a pretty big school, it's not like they have 30 kids per grade or something. If you look, the majority of their students go to SUNY Binghampton, Eastwestern, and University of Hartford, I think. </p>
<p>My school isn't on your list of places to apply to (it's in the city, though) but we got ~16 kids into UPenn, ~8 into Columbia, ~10 to HYP, a few kids into Stanford, etc. last year alone. We got 22 kids into UPenn in 2005 alone. (We don't get a list of who got into where, but this is what I've heard, and where people I know are going to, etc.) And each grade has less than ~115 kids.</p>
<p>So maybe I'm being a little critical of their matriculation, but it really isn't anywhere near the rest of the schools on your list. Look at it anyway, though, because you might like their progressive approach to teaching.</p>
<p>Look at the numbers next to the schools. In three years, 1 person got into Yale, 1 person got into UPenn, 1 got into Cornell, 4 got into Columbia, 2 got into Brown, 0 got into Harvard, etc. So yeah, that's a pretty shabby list. And LREI is a pretty big school, it's not like they have 30 kids per grade or something. If you look, the majority of their students go to SUNY Binghampton, Eastwestern, and University of Hartford, I think. </p>
<p>My school isn't on your list of places to apply to (it's in the city, though) but we got ~16 kids into UPenn, ~8 into Columbia, ~10 to HYP, a few kids into Stanford, etc. last year alone. We got 22 kids into UPenn in 2005 alone. (We don't get a list of who got into where, but this is what I've heard, and where people I know are going to, etc.) And each grade has less than ~115 kids.</p>
<p>So maybe I'm being a little critical of their matriculation, but it really isn't anywhere near the rest of the schools on your list. Look at it anyway, though, because you might like their progressive approach to teaching.</p>
<p>I, myself, attend a NYC High School. Unfortunately I have never heard of the schools you have listed, nor do I know where they are located. Sorry, I can't help you here.</p>
<p>You've neve heard of any of the schools listed?</p>
<p>...What school do you go to? You can PM it to me, if you want. If you go to public school or a parochial school, that might explain it...</p>
<p>I go to HSES (High School For Environmental Studies). By the way, what is a parochial school?</p>
<p>I think it's what people call christian schools. Jewish schools too, maybe, I'm not sure.</p>
<p>I usually just say Christian/Jewish schools, but a lot of people refer to them as parochial schools, so I say that on CC. lol</p>
<p>That's public, right? So it's a whole different community. It makes sense that you haven't heard of the private schools. I haven't heard of too many public schools, either. Well, actually I do know a few just because I do programs with public school kids, but most private school kids haven't heard of public schools (except for like, stuy).</p>
<p>I know people at St. Anne's! They like it a lot. They turned down LaGuardia for voice to go back to St. Anne's because they just love it, even though they kind of wish now that they had gone to LaGuardia. But she's a Sophomore and she's taking 2 APs.</p>
<p>So, I guess then I am to shoot for what you are calling the hill schools, may be Dalton because it looks like it's a good school and I am sooo not into drugs, so there has to be some kids like me, ummmmright? My parents are thinking about boarding school Hotchkiss but that's because their friends rave about it but I am not so sure I want to be away. Any other suggestions for shools that I am missing. It's kind of lame but I got the list from kids at summer camp and I think if I have the right info, myparents will listen to me. So dont' forsake me.</p>
<p>Heh, I went to Stuy and never heard of most of those schools.. xD</p>