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Every year I seem to hear it is a "bad year for boys" (2007) or a "bad year for girls" (last year) for K admissions. Any idea what this year is?
14 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]Every year is the same, but everyone wants to say out loud and believe that their year is the hardest so that when little Oliver gets rejected at all his top choices mom can say 'It was not Oliver, it was just a very bad year'
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IME, if you have a really great smart boy, he does well, bc there are fewer of them and that makes it harder for the middle of the pack boys to get into the more competetive schools. i also think that boys with february-june birthdays are at an overall disadvantage unless they are very mature. there tend to me more "Great" girls and therefore it's more competetive among them. i also think the parents of girls tend to want the SS schools far more and are less willing to want co-ed and even less willing to consider the hill schools. which means that the girls are all vying for spots at the same few schools.
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or: i'm sorry, i think there are fewer "really great smart boys" at that age, than there are girls (and i have boys, so i'm not trying to disparage the gender). but you are right there are over 100 fewer spots for boys overall. i still find that more great girls (mature, high scoring, nice parents) get disappointed than great boys.
[ Reply | Options ]But then there are 6 times the number of schools for girls, at least. So the numbers should more than even out.
[ Reply | Options ]NO! there are 7 girls schools with 350-400 spots among them and 6 schools for boys with approximately 250 spots among them. So 100-150 more spots for girls. But I still say that if you look at the top pool of applicants (say the best 10%) - there are far more girls overall.
[ Reply | Options ]No need to yell. There may be 7 top well known schools for girls and 6 schools that include boys (coed) but there are many more SS girl schools than boys. In the top tier, in all tiers. Period.
[ Reply | Options ]okay, of the SS schools starting in K in NYC that are discussed on UB, there are 7 for girls and 6 for boys. The only other SS school that gets discussed here is Regis and that is HS only. So you can go on all you like, but no one is talking about other schools so it's not relevant to the discussion.
[ Reply | Options ]What about all the coed schools people discuss? Where do those factors in to this theory? I don't really know much about any other school but the only HSs for boys that are decent number 2 (maybe), but either way it doesn't matter just an opinion
[ Reply | Options ]the co-ed schools take an equal number of girls and boys so it's not relevant. except that IME, parents of boys are on average more interested in co-ed schools than parents of girls and are more willing to consider the hill schools because of sports in the older grades. in general when US talks about admissions in general, they mean K admissions. so the fact that only 2 SS boys schools have HS, is not relevant.
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