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  • When we looked at Brearley, we were appalled at the way they fawned all over the Euro-trash parents at various events. Now I hear how the school is a place that worships celebrity adn money and I totally believe it. Where did this "down to earth" reputation even come from? Is it some leftover from days gone by or did it actually never exist?

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    08.06.09, 06:45 AM [ Flag ]
    • Disgusting.

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      08.06.09, 07:09 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • Please. All of the schools are like that. Brearley used to be the one that was not but it now has to compete with new money obsession with celebrity so they now fawn too. Sad but not uncommon

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        08.06.09, 07:18 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Who are the famous people who went to Brearley? Are they like CEOs or working in congress now? Not being snarky. Really wondering.

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      08.06.09, 07:13 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • Now or before? Not many famous people before but many musicians, writers, politicians or daughters of those

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        08.06.09, 07:19 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • Oh. Okay.

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          08.06.09, 07:22 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • I know some famous people there: Daughter of Kevin Bacon (graduated this year), daughter of Tea Leoni and David Duchovny (Tea Leoni is a Brearley grad). But all schools are like this, don't act like this is a huge surprise, even our supposedly crunchy granola preschool is like this; event this year that invited select past families, no surprise it was all "famous" people, not people who had 5 kids go through thte school or people who volunteered the most.

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          08.06.09, 01:58 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • DH and I are from Europe and we have a dd at B. So, this automatically makes us Euro trash now. Thanks.

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      08.06.09, 07:13 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Brearley was for years the most down to earth of all the schools. Interested in intellect, shunned celebrity and its money (there are great stories about people they snubbed) but in recent years with the new head of school it has changed dramatically. I was there and we have DD there and we feel differently about the administration now. Curriculum and teaching still outstanding but the culture has changed

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      08.06.09, 07:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • A lot of organizations are like this. They change the "leader" and the org goes down the drain.

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        08.06.09, 10:26 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • that is such bs. the head of school is a scholar and an intellectual. brearley is no different now than it ever was.

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        09.01.09, 07:13 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • glad you feel that way because you are not getting in

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      08.06.09, 07:21 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Brearley used to have thie "HENRY ORIENT" mystique to it. That's long gone sadly.

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      08.06.09, 07:49 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Lots of European parents at my dc's school - does that mean that it fawns over "euro-trash"? B is a good school - not for every family or every kid & all schools, even non-TT, have at least a few celeb families. THis is NY.

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      08.06.09, 08:08 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • I don't know where it got its "down to earth" rep but we didn't find it down to earth at all. don't follow all the celeb stuff but we found it very frosty - wasn't high on our list.

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      08.06.09, 10:36 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Df has daughter there and she told me they're particularly conscious of fund-raising ability in choosing new students b/c they have that new building across the street to pay for.

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      08.06.09, 11:01 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • and of course now they'll have Annie's 3 kids to subsidize adn Madoff made off with a lot of B's endowment

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        08.06.09, 11:18 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • This is so old! All of this animosity toward the school b/c of two celebrity families? Good grief, who cares!

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      08.06.09, 02:16 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • For me it is not because of two celebrities. For me it is because B was the ONLY school where my 99x3 DD got an outright reject. It meant that they don't give a crap about a quality of a kid. She is in another tt now (which means btw that we had no problems with the school report, or parent interview), and I don't care about B, but you must agree that they had some reason to skip a good applicant - too many "other types" to consider.

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        08.06.09, 03:40 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • calm down. maybe she wasn't a good fit for the school. not every smart kid is a fit for every school.

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          08.06.09, 04:13 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • np Same here. 99x3, outright reject at B, at another tt. White, boring, not spectacularly wealthy. PSD said playdate was great but "too many sibs" (which is what, I think, they say when there's no reason for a ding).

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          08.06.09, 04:32 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • You need to let it go!! My 99 x 3 didn't get into Trinity but I'm not holding a grude. Got into other great schools and are more than grateful.

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          08.06.09, 07:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • ITTTTA. SAme thing here and there was no logical reason but for the fact that we applied the same year the Euro was king and there are definitely celeb kids in that year too.

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          08.06.09, 07:25 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • I think I can see why they didn't take the ones posting here about your 99x3 applicants. You need a serious perspective check. B is very wise.

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          08.06.09, 07:46 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • You have this all wrong. MY DS is going to Dalton and he was outright rejected by Trinity and HM. I can only assume they had another kid who fit his profile or they knew he was more likely to end up st Dalton or similar. No sour grapes. No one, and I mean absolutely no one, who applies to the usual 8 or so schools get accepted by all of them.

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          08.06.09, 08:50 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • What I find amazing is that some UB with a kid with a perfect EVERYTHING get dinged from Brearley and they believe it's because Celebrities, transplanted Europeans, and Blacks are took their spot instead of looking at the numbers. I'm sure B gets about 500 new applications, not including sibs or legacies for about 25 open spots and I'm probably on the generous side of open seats.

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      08.06.09, 07:42 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • And a huge number of those 25 seats go to Euros, celebs and the extremely wealthy.

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        08.06.09, 08:10 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • First of all, NO child has a perfect everything and you weren't in there for her playdate. Secondly, I hate to break it to you but I smell that YOU were the problem. Pretty clear to me. Anyone else?

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        08.06.09, 08:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • I don't have a child at B. I work for a private school but not in admissions, thank goodness. I see the amount of applications they receive, which rivals some colleges. If Brearley is like the school I work for, they are up to their eyeballs in applications and they read every single one. When I watched Nursery University, I wasn't surprised by the fact that the admissions personnel began to get "loopy". The worse is when it comes down to applicants who have just about identical statistics. You can't flip a coin to decide.

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          08.07.09, 05:44 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • I am the one with 99x3 kid. Let me also add that we are both academics (full profs from Columbia and a nearby Ivy (dont want to out myself)). All I am saying that I find it suspicious that B was the ONLY school completely dinging us. And i don't have to get over it - I am not that crazy about ss in the first place, and totally happy at my current tt (yes, Sh. Holmes, it is D, T ot HM) . totally get the dynamic of only few places available for non-sibs, etc but - we were acce[pted ot at least w/l at all oter tts. Fine, consider it a statistically insignificant event.

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        08.07.09, 02:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • LOL "The" 99x3 kid--like there's only one a season.

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          08.07.09, 05:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • I agree. They were the only one out of the the probably thousand applications Brearley gets during the admissions process. I actually think 500 applications is on the low side.

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            08.07.09, 05:36 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • I meant I am the one who posted above, so that I can continue my argument. I know that there are many a year (I know at least 2 for example).

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            08.07.09, 05:37 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Brearley is totally down to earth. Intellectuals abound and no one cares about what you or your bank account look like. I don't even know what you're talking about. I hate when people on UB cry sour grapes whenever someone has something negative to say about a school but you're oozing hurt feelings and a bruised ego. I'm sure your daughter is wonderful but she clearly isn't going to impress everyone all the time. I'd start accepting that now, otherwise it's going to be a rough road...for her!

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      08.06.09, 08:55 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • BTW, Uma Thurman dd is at B. Not that I have anything against her (she is my favotite actress) but since people keep saying that there are only 2 celeb families there, I wanted to add this info. (I am not a celeb chaser, and don'rt know much, but her dd went to our preK).

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      08.07.09, 05:16 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • As I sit here and read these catty posts I laugh and sigh with relief that I am way too poor to ever consider private for my dd. Ahhh, the simple life :-)

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      08.07.09, 06:01 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • Simple until you've applied to a public G&T. Then you'll really see the hate and racism fly. Then you'll see the posts of people wanting to accuse Black and Latino parents of using fake addresses to get their kids into P.S. 87 because no Blacks or Latinos live on the UWS.

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        08.07.09, 06:05 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • Nah. DD goes to very good public on the UES. Perfectly happy.

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          08.07.09, 07:01 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • What does G&T have to do with 87? And 87, until this past year, always took in a lot of kids from out of the catchment.

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          08.07.09, 07:52 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • I meant to separate the two points. Just do a search on UB and see how many people say those kids out of the catchment area are lying about their address. Btw, my kids went to 87 in the early 90s and this accusation was going on then.

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            08.07.09, 08:03 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
            • white parents want to keep the old power structure intact. and brearley is at the very top of all of that, whether you want to accept it or not.

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              09.01.09, 07:15 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • It never existed. Anyone who thinks Brearley is "down to earth" is out of their right minds. Go beavers!

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      09.01.09, 07:11 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • we loved that school. our dd didn't get in

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      09.01.09, 07:19 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • can we talk about what "euro-trash" even means? i haven't heard anyone use that since the pet shop boys were big.

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        09.01.09, 07:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Ultra left wing bra burning lesbian stronghold.

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      09.05.09, 07:50 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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