Are you a New Yorker who recently relocated to Florida? If so, and you’re stressed out about enrolling your children in top private schools, particularly in the Palm Beach area, know that you’re not alone. With the influx of so many New Yorkers to Florida, a state that does not …
What are the ISEE and the SSAT exams? The ISEE and the SSAT are admissions tests required by most competitive private schools. Scoring on these tests, summarized in levels 1-9 called stanines, can be a major factor in the admissions process to these schools — especially at the most prestigious …
In a sign of the times, Lowell High School, arguably the top public high school in the city of San Fransisco, has done away with a lottery-based admissions process it put in place during the pandemic. The school has reverted to a merit-based admissions process, one based on students’ grades …
There’s a new trend among wealthy parents of high schoolers in China: many are sending their children to boarding schools in Japan. Apparently, these parents are kicking back at the Chinese government for imposing state-approved curricula in high schools across China this past December aimed to inspire patriotism and quell …
As many elite universities report record number of applications this year, some top private high schools are also announcing new application benchmarks. This is the case at Harvard-Westlake School, an elite independent preparatory day school in Los Angeles that has long served as a feeder school to America’s elite universities. …
In a major victory for Asian American families whose children seek to attend the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a federal judge today put the kibosh on changes to the school’s admissions process that have adversely impacted the representation of Asian American young people at the magnet …
Oh to be the parent of a child in New York city currently applying to the top-ranked public high schools in Gotham. The New York City Department of Education has unveiled a new school admissions system and let’s just say that some folks are happy about it — and some …
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, an elite American magnet school in northern Virginia and home to many Ivy Coach students past and present (hey, when one of our students makes headlines for earning admission to each of the eight Ivy League schools in addition to Stanford, word …
The city of Boston is changing its admissions process to its elite exam schools, including the venerable Boston Latin School. This week, by a unanimous vote of the Boston School Committee, the admissions process to Boston’s three highly selective exam schools will be changed in an effort to increase the …
For those of our readers who happen to reside in New York City and care about the brouhaha surrounding the Specialized High School Admission Test, well, you might get a good laugh from reading a letter to the editor in The New York Times. In the letter, David Golub of …
