5 Jan 2016

NOW is the Time: NYC Private School Admissions Prep

If your child will be going through the application process for 2018 NYC private school admission, now is the time to get started getting help. This is your family's chance to work with Emily Glickman, one of NYC's most experienced and respected private school consultants.

For 2017 admission more parents than ever wanted to book with Abacus Guide; we had to turn many families away. Help your child get into NYC's best private schools by signing up early.  Now is the Time.

Call today 212-712-2228 or email best NYC private school consultant.

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1 Jun 2018

Robot-Proof Your Children

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All the parents I see in my practice are concerned about their children's future. They see attending a private school where their children can optimally succeed as a key first step.

After all this expensive education, parents hope their children will emerge to be in a position to obtain good jobs, and not lose opportunities to robots.

The 21st Century parent's concern is addressed in The Wall Street Journal's How You Can Raise Robot-Proof Children.  In brief, the Journal recommends teaching your children creativity, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, independence and mental agility.

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1 Jun 2018

Guaranteed Top College Admission, Anyone?

A new private high school makes big promises. Inside Higher Ed reports on a new and dramatic change in a private high school's sell to families: a top college admission guarantee.

A private, for-profit high school in Orange County, California, Fairmont Private Schools, does not just "help" your child obtain admission or brag about prior graduates' success. They actually guarantee top college admission, and even scholarships.

"Fairmont Private Schools, Orange County's largest and oldest nonsectarian private school, is boosting the return on investment in education with the Fairmont College Promise, which guarantees that Fairmont Preparatory Academy graduates will be accepted to and receive scholarships for tuition at the Top 100 U.S. colleges or universities. The school also says it will convert up to 100 percent of tuition paid to attend its high school into a scholarship to the college of choice if the promise is not met."

No private school in New York has yet followed Fairmont's lead. But is this fortunate?

According to Inside Higher Ed:

Myra A. McGovern, vice president of the National Association of Independent Schools, ... said she was troubled by any high school designating only a certain kind of college as appropriate.

"Does that serve students well?" she asked. "The idea of a school isn't that it produces one outcome exclusively, but that it helps a student develop into an adult." Defining success as being admitted to a college praised by U.S. News "is a relatively narrow outcome."

She pointed to her association's code of ethics, which has a provision that warns against any relationships that would have school officials favoring some colleges over others in admissions advising.

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30 Apr 2018

Education Donor Stephen Schwarzman Likes to See His Name on Buildings

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Ignoring Maimonides' teaching that it is best to give charity anonymously so that the ego is not involved, Blackstone private equity CEO Stephen Schwarzman gives only on condition that he is recognized. Hence, his $100 million gift to the New York Public Library resulted in the renaming of the main branch, a historic edifice, as the "Stephen Schwarzman Building".

Recently, some at his alma maters have questioned his modus operandi of quid pro quo. Schwarzman's high school, Abington Senior High School in Abington, PA resisted renaming their high school "Stephen Schwarzman High School" in return for a $25 million gift.

Schwarzman's methods have also caused controversy at his college, Yale. Yale benefited from his $150 million donation for a new student center, naturally to be named after him.

Some feel that the university goes too far kowtowing to major donors, not only offering them name recognition but also power in prioritizing and determining the school's mission. From the Yale Daily News:

"There's a sense among faculty members that, when it comes to the really big-ticket items that the University is working on, like the new science complex or the Schwarzman Center, that a lot of the ideas are driven by the donors rather than driven by the faculty and their mission," said Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate and American Studies professor Matthew Jacobson in an interview with the News this month.

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30 Apr 2018

NYC Private School Building Boom

When my clients tour NYC private schools, they are very frequently impressed by new and improved facilities. Everyone would like their children to enjoy the most innovative science and technology labs, the best sports facilities, the largest libraries, and the most creative arts areas.

Responding to consumer demand as well as competition from new schools and established schools undertaking building projects, many NYC private schools are using influxes of money from well-heeled parent donors as well as favorable tax breaks to fund major expansions.

Many of their neighbors aren't pleased.

NYC Private K-12 Schools Go on a Billion-Dollar Building Spree

Neighbors furious over prep school construction

Another kind of building boom: Private school construction is a $1B biz

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30 Apr 2018

Large Paychecks for Many NYC Private School Heads

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Leslie Brody of The Wall Street Journal reports Pay for Some New York Private School Chiefs Nears $1 Million Compensation tops the pay of many college presidents. As tuition rises to $50,000 a year at many private schools, heads are seeing their paychecks rise as well.

Brody writes,

At least nine heads of private K-12 schools in New York City earned total yearly packages topping $800,000, according to 2015 federal tax forms, the most recent year available.

Trinity School head John Allman received total compensation of $1.1 million, including base pay of $780,528, housing, bonus, benefits and deferred compensation, according to 2015 tax forms filed by the Manhattan school. Mr. Allman declined to comment. He made headlines in September for his letter to parents calling for a deeper school culture of public service rather than entitlement, to avoid being "just a very, very, very expensive finishing school" for its roughly 1,000 students.

By contrast, the average salaries of private college leaders and the Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools are much less.

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17 Feb 2018

NYC Private High School Admission: Clean Sweep!

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NYC private high school admission: clean sweep!

We were thrilled to hear from an Abacus Guide high school client yesterday:

Emily,

Acceptances across the board!!!

We are stunned and thrilled!!!!

 thank you for all your help!!!

 

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