<p>Hello, NYC....most of the people you mentioned actually live in nyc anyway, so of course if you could afford it you would send your child to a good local private school rather than a city public.</p>
<p>Oh God here we go again, see what you have started KS1040. If it makes you feel any better, my sisters went to Spence and I can assure you that the girls at Brearley are much nicer!</p>
<p>This has gone on long enough. </p>
<p>I'd rather my kid eat vanilla ice cream out of the container with Dane Cook any day, than have him eat a chocolate sundae with Hilary Clinton, even if she put whipped cream and nuts on top. It would still be chocolate underneath. :)</p>
<p>OK EDUCATED RANT - My sister graduated from Spence two years ago - she's at Princeton now. I'm still at Spence (both of us started in K from the same preschool about 2 blocks away from Spence) and last year I toured Groton, St. Paul's, Deerfield and Exeter. My mom went to Exeter as one of the first women and then went to Harvard and my dad was at Groton and then went to Columbia. </p>
<p>I found the boarding schools refreshing. There was fresh air and beautiful architecture. But my school had better Ivy Enrollment - last year, around 7 girls out of 40 went to Dartmouth, around 7 to Cornell, 2 to Harvard, 2 to Princeton, about 5 to Penn, 1 to Bron and I think 1 to Yale - and several to Stanford, MIT, Amherst, Williams etc. Boarding Schools are also fabulous and a nice change from city life.</p>
<p>If you're at a private NYC tt day school, you're going to have superior leadership opportunities, NYC as your campus and stellar teachers. I chose to stay at Spence (and I did get in everywhere I applied, trying not to brag) for its excellent reputation and really challenging and FUN academics. You're going to get to know your teachers far better if you've known most for 13 years and don't have to share them with 300 other kids. Plus, I think a lot of the argument is faulty in that the private day schools have a HIGH SCHOOL of only about 200 - the numbers around 600 include k-8, which boarding schools previously mention don't actually have, so a lot of these stats are really untrue.</p>
<p>Oh - both parents are lawyers, more on the old money side, but we're not filthy rich by NYC standards.</p>
<p>BoRiNg. Really BoRiNg.</p>
<p>The college placement is still better at top boarding schools.</p>
<p>i doubt any nyc day school can compete with The Lawrenceville School/Andover/Exeter's matriculations last year (lville had a particularly absurd year in 2007).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lawrenceville.org/on_campus/college/matric.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.lawrenceville.org/on_campus/college/matric.asp</a>
(only one that i'm familiar with)</p>
<p>L'ville and the others place students at top LACs/unis in greater absolute numbers than the top day schs b/c the BSs have MUCH larger enrollments. L'vill enrolls over 800 students, the Brearley upper school is closer to 200. Divide L'villes spectacular 2007 matriculations by 4 for a more accurate comparison.</p>