<p>Any comments about the following school if you have attended? pros and cons?</p>
<p>Poly Prep country school(full schorlarship)
Trinity school(2/3 grants)
Stuyvesant high school(top 10% on shsat entrance exam)</p>
<p>I'm very bright, but never work hard.
also possible to be accepted by andover and exter, NH</p>
<p>it is difficult choose to make, anyone can provide some suggestion?</p>
<p>Best</p>
<p>I don't know anything about Poly Prep, but I have good friends at Trinity and Stuy (and at one point went to Hunter, Stuy's <em>obviously superior</em> (I kid, of course), UES counterpart and both seem to enjoy it - they're both great schools. That said, the scene in each is of course different - Trinity is K-12, and, while not as much of a stereotypical "NYC private school" as, say, Spence - it does have a distinct Upper West Side vibe, is a private school nonetheless. That could be, or could not be, what you're looking for.</p>
<p>And I believe Stuy may be particularly good for math/science kids (at least it was compared to Hunter, the typical arts/English/humanities school.)</p>
<p>whichever school you get the best vibe from</p>
<p>is this supposed to be a trick question?</p>
<p>From what I heard Poly Prep is a very good school, all I know.
Trinity is also very good. These schools add a lot to the private school district. Trinity is less rigorous, just my opinion by looking at the curriculum, compared to Poly Prep, I remember when I used to pronounce it like Holy, that was funny. </p>
<p>I hate that SSAT test, I took a Kaplan course in the fall and did the SHSI program for 2 years. I quit like 4 months before it ended. It was a real lousy experiance, for some reason the test always made me look bad, my scores were dismal! I got 38 points on it! For the ISEE scored all in the 9th stanines 98%. On the TACHS I scored really well, on the 98% percentile on the national percentile rank, and 99% local percentile. There is something really weird about the SSAT, I dont know what...it's just odd....very strange....there is something going on but I cant quite put my finger on it........something being done to the points and scoring. One day Im going to get to the bottom of this perplexing mystery........</p>
<p>oh well Congrats!!!!! You should go to the school that feel best at ! These are all great schools!</p>
<p>You're certainly siting in the catbird seat! Lots of good choices - - but very, very diff schools/experiences.</p>
<p>Where do you live and how would the communte affect your hs life? A lengthy communte - - especially after sports/ECs - - could be a real pain (that and wonder-lust were the primary reason DD and her classmates applied out of NYC day sch for boarding sch). Trinity is a schlep from Bklyn or Queens, and Poly is a schlep from anywhere except Bklyn (although Poly does provide bus transp).</p>
<p>All three are strong schools, but Stuy (3500 students) is much larger than the upper schs at Poly and Trin. Also, class size at Stuy will be much larger than at the two day schs. And Stuy is still heavily math/sci. (Perhaps even more so going forward if students stronger in the humanities continue opting for Beacon - - an increasingly popular self-contained sch of 1200 on the Upper W Side - - over Stuy.)</p>
<p>Also, how important is the finaid to your family? Will the 1/3 tuition at Trin be a hardship?</p>
<p>As for Exeter and Andover - - Andover was never in the running for us (larger day pop than we wanted). </p>
<p>I wouldn't say it's just a matter of the "vibe" b/c you're talking about three very different experiences - - large math/sci public, day sch and boarding sch. What's "best" depends on the type of experience you want.</p>
<p>academically, i know little about these schools. socially however, for stuy read "the notebook girls". i know that no book can provide a completely rounded view of a school but it is a glimpse into the social life of a few students.</p>
<p>by now you should know what each type of school is and what will work best for you. assuming that the op is academically ok with all of the schools then it pretty much comes down to the vibe you got from each place and which one will work best for you. No one on the internet should tell you where to go because they don't know you</p>
<p>I wouldn't want to be at a school that had great academics, but at the same time doesn't have a good feeling to being there (boarding or day)</p>
<p>Stuyvesant - academically is as good if not better than the schools you mentioned- and to my understanding is free. While the benefits to boarding are numerous, so are the negatives, especially the cost. I would send my S to Stuyvesant and save the money for college.</p>
<p>thanks for all, went to all school visit...I like all of them, this is dificult decision to be made.
stuy is acedmically charllenge so does trinity, I'm math& sci person, so stuy would be good to me but worry its too much competition(I'm lazy most of time), trinity is good but worry about stereotypical like ajadedidealist said.
poly's acedemic is too easy to me, but really close to home, also good schorlarship.
I did so well on ssat&isee&shsat. to me, all tests are easy because I'm a really really good test taker. I may go to poly
wish someone can see 4 years from now for me, and give a hint</p>
<p>BetterSchool wrote:</p>
<p>thanks for all, went to all school visit...I like all of them, this is dificult decision to be made.
stuy is acedmically charllenge so does trinity, I'm math& sci person, so stuy would be good to me but worry its too much competition(I'm lazy most of time), trinity is good but worry about stereotypical like ajadedidealist said.
poly's acedemic is too easy to me, but really close to home, also good schorlarship.
I did so well on ssat&isee&shsat. to me, all tests are easy because I'm a really really good test taker. I may go to poly
wish someone can see 4 years from now for me, and give a hint</p>
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<p>holy moly - i suggest attending whichever school has the most relaxed point of view concerning command of the english language. you must be VERY good at math and science. how were your verbal SSAT scores????</p>
<p>to MomtoanUndecided
that was actually my mom. She doesn't have the best of english and grammar and spelling errors are common for her. By the way, I had full score on all the subjects on my SSAT's. (except, of course, writing, in which the essays are sent to the schools</p>
<p>MomtoanUndecided....That was nasty and uncalled for. Why on earth would an adult be so rude to a child? First, this is a message board - grammar and spelling don't truly count here and many (probably most) bright kids do not worry about such things when IM'ing and texting. This page is not an admissions application. Secondly - How could you know if this person's first language is even English?
Shame on you!</p>
<p>OK BetterSchool. The post said "I' and not "my child" so I assumed it was a child.</p>
<p>Keylyme - um, here's the reality: English is almost CERTAINLY not his/her first language but a rather decent command of English is nonetheless expected at these sorts of top schools at the high school level. At more remedial schools or public schools in general, there are certainly ESL classes for those catching up. Perhaps there is at Stuyvesant - I'll ask my husband who does international admissions for a top public university.</p>
<p>I was not actually intending to be rude but I was bringing attention to the fact that this poster would have a very hard time at a school that expected his/her command of English to be up to a competitive level. There are plenty of English-as-second-language kids at my daughter's very competitive school. However, their English is terrific--their command of basic rules of grammar very sound, and their fluency flawless.</p>
<p>And here's a heads-up: you may think it is alright and appropriate to lazily write messages in the style of txting and IM on public forums designed to get sound and reasoned information on top prep schools. However, that that style of message represents a general degradation in communication skills. (And this is all a sidebar - the message was not in IM or text style - it was just very poor English.)</p>
<p>Please let me know if and when you ever send a text message or email to a client or teacher or grandmother or anyone in the adult educated community (and yes, this forum has adults as well as kids, and in some cases amalgams of both --witness BetterSchool's mom who apparently poses as a child on this board....) and that message is well-received and given the thoughtful feedback it apparently seeks. Like any vernacular, it will be best received in its own small tight-knit community (in the case of IMese and textese, among 13 year olds.)</p>
<p>Sorry, Mom, I still say your message was "in your face" rude, immature, and absolutely uncalled for. Pristine grammar has its place; so does common decency.</p>
<p>OK Keyly, that's why it's a horse race. We have different opinions, and I'm OK with that.</p>
<p>Or should I say, fo shizzle my dizzle?</p>
<p>Yes, I opt for good manners, discretion, and kindness. I just think you were too quick to react and too harsh in that reaction.</p>
<p>MomtoanUndecided, Shouldn't "alright" really be "all right?"</p>
<p>Well, here's a little observed tenet of etiquette with which you may disagree: my grandmother, a lovely Southern gentlewoman of advanced years, once told me that it is the height of poor manners to point out others' poor manners. Exception: parents to kids. I did say I was not intending to be rude. I can really see no reason why you would lambast me for pointing out, after the second post by the OP that the English displayed would cause great difficulty for a student at a school that expected a "rather decent command of English." It's just reality that someone with that command of English would struggle in many classes outside of math and science, especially classes like English and History or Philosophy in which a great deal of reading and writing is done. But apparently this child has "full score" on SSAT, which is admirable, whatever it means.</p>
<p>Alright is more informal, but it's accepted, in the dictionary, and is not grammatically defective. I have not suggested that everyone be entirely formal. But yes, in a formal context, "all right" is preferred. MY POINT was that the English displayed was not in fact just casual (and I believe Keyly's examples of IM and txt language were inapposite and really just red herrings) but that the English was completely ungrammatical and displayed a non-command of the language in the context of certain competitive schools. OP asked which school would be best? I replied the one that is not placing a big emphasis on command of English. The truth may hurt, but it was the truth.</p>
<p>Might I suggest a truce? Everyone is perhaps a bit nervous as the big decision day approaches. So, perhaps we should all go to bed, get a good night's sleep (it is late here on the east coast), and then start fresh on new topics tomorrow.</p>