School life, between the linesBy Admissions Diary
School stories, admissions adventures, and the things parents talk about on the way home.
Parent life · New York City
Brooklyn parents ask online whether a preschool across the river is worth the commute. The estimates come in at eleven minutes and go up from there.
The admissions files · New York City
In 2020 New York private schools moved their kindergarten assessment onto Zoom. The rules for the four-year-olds were simple. The rules for the adults were not.
School rivalries · New England
In 1893 Exeter beat Andover with a schoolboy who had worked for Barnum and Bailey. Andover was outraged, and then, much later, honest.
The admissions files · New York City
In 2014 Horace Mann and Riverdale swapped a $568 exam for a $65 iPad test. My eldest was four, and I had a calculator.
