<p><a href="http://www.columbiasecondary.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbiasecondary.org/</a></p>
<p>It looks like you can do research and take some courses at Columbia University. Does that mean that you'll have a better chance of being admitted to Columbia after graduating from this high school?</p>
<p>No. It's a prep school.</p>
<p>Wrong, it's not a prep school. It's a specialized NYC public high school that's being built on Columbia's future Manhattanville campus in order to try and mitigate public opposition to the project. But Karot is right in that going there will not improve one's chances at admission.</p>
<p>There is a formerly Columbia-affiliated prep school in Manhattan, Columbia Grammar and Prep, on the UWS...it's no longer tied to the university, though:
<a href="http://www.cgps.org/index.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.cgps.org/index.php</a></p>
<p>Since Columbia designs their curriculum, that means Columbia will know what the graduating students are capable of. In addition, politically speaking, Columbia would want the graduating students to be admitted to big name universities, including Columbia. Plus, students can take courses at Columbia and potentially get letters of recommendations from professors.</p>
<p>Oh, missed out on that public high school graphic at the bottom.</p>
<p>True, but Columbia knows the curricula of many schools in detail, so I doubt this school's admission rate would necessarily be higher than, say, other prep schools or NYC specialty high schools on that basis. Summer school students who get professors' LORs are no more likely to be admitted either. Politically, it would actually be suspect if Columbia were overadmitting students from that school vs. other Ivies; it would have to actually limit its admits on this basis.</p>
<p>re: Formerly-affiliated prep schools-</p>
<p>One of the most famous of this ilk, The Horace Mann School in Riverdale, was originally started as a lab school for Teachers College. Columbia faculty kids could also attend there. </p>
<p>During the 1900s Teachers College was involved with The Lincoln School and The Speyer school, both now defunct, in addition to Horace Mann. Horace Mann broke ties with Columbia, and Lincoln was closed, in the 1940s.</p>
<p>Apparently there's a building at Teacher's College that still says Horace Mann.</p>
<p>After those schools were closed, Columbia started The Agnes Russell School, located at Teacher's College, to teach faculty kids. Agnes Russell was closed sometime in the 70s it seems.</p>
<p>In 2003 a new school, Columbia U School for Children, was started to teach faculty kids.</p>