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The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools and Selective Public Schools Kindle Edition

by Victoria Goldman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This is the best and most comprehensive guide to Manhattan’s private schools, including Brooklyn and Riverdale. Written by a parent who is also an expert on school admissions, this guide has been helping New York City parents choose the best private and selective public schools for their children for over 20 years. The new edition has been completely revised and expanded to include the latest information on admissions procedures, programs, diversity, school size, staff, tuition, and scholarships. It now lists over 75 elementary and high schools, including schools for special needs children.

Book Features:

  • Factors to consider when selecting a school, such as location, single sex versus coed, school size, after-school programs, and academic pace.
  • Preparing your child for admissions interviews.
  • Resources for test preparation.
  • School profiles that include key information on school tours and applications, tuition, financial aid and scholarships, staff, class size, homework, diversity, educational approach, atmosphere, and more.

“The information is on the mark and insightful. . . . Parents will pass The Manhattan Family Guide to parents as gleefully as they once passed notes in class.”
—New York Magazine (for a previous edition)

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  3. Publisher
    Teachers College Press
  4. Publication date
    January 8, 2016
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“A knowing look at those privileged places of learning.”

―Town & Country



“Parents will pass The Manhattan Family Guide to parents as gleefully as they once passed notes in class.”

―New York Magazine



“Parents will line up single file for (this) guide to Manhattan’s private schools.”

―The New York Observer



“Parents can turn to . . . objective and informative Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools, the first to cover subjects from admission to tuition, curriculum, and general atmosphere.”

―AVENUE magazine

About the Author

Victoria Goldman is an educational consultant and an expert on school admissions. Her firm, Education First, provides private consultations, workshops, and corporate seminars. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times. She is the author of The Manhattan Directory of Private Nursery Schools and The Los Angeles Guide to Private Schools.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01ACKKRT6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Teachers College Press; 7th edition (January 8, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 8, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0807756563
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  • Reading Fool
    5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect starting point for your private school search!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016
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    If you are applying your child to a NYC private school, step 1 in your search is to read this book.

    The book begins with a comprehensive overview on all aspects of the school admissions process. Then, it takes you through a detailed description of each school, including important information such as birthday cutoffs, enrollment per grade, tuition, financial aid availability, endowment, after-school program availability, and more. It offers parents everything they need to know about NYC private schools in one convenient place - a much easier alternative than reading through each school's individual website (although I do recommend scouring their sites AFTER you've honed your own targeted list of schools). Within each school description, you will learn all you need to guide you in whether or not you want to put that school on your own list and consider it further. You'll find out where the school is located, whether uniforms are required, what their diversity commitment is, how much homework they give, what their after school program and extra-curricular activities are like, whether they have a summer program, and most important, the history of the school, their curriculum, what day-to-day life is like in their program, what parents and kids say about the school, and much more. Victoria Goldman is well-known to all the schools and is given personal, in-depth tours by school heads and admissions directors before she updates each edition of her book. She also speaks to parents and students from each school so that she can give a thorough and balanced review of every program.

    When I looked at private schools for my own kids, this was my go-to book. I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is the perfect starting point for your private school search.
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  • AL_architect
    4.0 out of 5 stars Geared to private school searches
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2023
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    This book, book contains very useful information and provides a strong and broad overview for those searching for a private school.

    For anyone applying to even one private school, the chapter "Everything you want to know about private schools but are afraid to ask" is incredibly useful and addresses all aspects of the application process from applications to reference letters and interviews.

    The school descriptions are comprehensive, many of them multiple pages in length and addressing all grades that a school offers.

    If you are targeting public schools, or if you wish to explore both public and private schools for your child, do not be misled by the book's title: only ~10 of the book's pages (out of ~470) are focused on public schools. Descriptions of the selective public schools in the book are shorter than the private school descriptions, and not all Specialized and Screened schools are covered.
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  • charliegg
    3.0 out of 5 stars Presents each schools' summary of itself without any context or critique
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2018
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    This is a good summary list of pretty much every private school in Manhattan. It is really aimed at kindergarten-level applications rather than high school (although it could work for high school). My main criticism would be that it does not offer great perspective on the schools or any kind of critique. Rather, it takes each schools' own PR spiel and amplifies it, basically saying that every single school is really great. Typically she describes every head of school as "an inspired, gifted educator" and every schools' curriculum as "award-winning" and "innovative". So it's hard to get a sense of which schools are really better, when according to this author they are all so outstanding. It would be more helpful if she provided less laudatory comments about the school administration and teachers, and more context. Those of us who have sent our kids to private schools know that they aren't all great, and there are quite a few complaints even at the good ones. It would be good to get a sense of that in the book, to better serve the reader.
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  • mjm
    5.0 out of 5 stars Useful and candid
    Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021
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    Even though the latest edition is a few years old this book is a great resource—thorough, thoughtful and does a great job of differentiating among schools. Especially help to get a sense of the culture, values and pedagogical approach of each school as you start your search. You get a more candid take than you would scrolling through countless school websites that sometimes start to look and feel too much alike. Definitely a worthwhile purchase.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Useful and convenient overview of the various private schools in ...
    Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2016
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    Useful and convenient overview of the various private schools in NYC but it does not go into enough detail for every school. Some of the reviews on each school are simply summaries of the information contained in the respective school's websites.
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  • Po the panda
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great information
    Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2018
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    Really helpful. Thanks for writing this. It will be nice to see author's own rating/ranking.
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  • BROOKLYN working mom
    1.0 out of 5 stars Lazy author catering to a bygone era. Who is she serving? No one, from what I can tell.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2016
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    As a parent who has done her homework and has a child in one of the leading private schools listed in this book, I can attest that this volume is a shabby piece of work. The school profiles are less informative than any one school's own website, yet it offers nothing additional. No effort has been made to offer a perspective on the schools in relation to one and other. And as for offering any info on "selective public schools", Victoria Goldman should be ashamed of herself. Lazy, lazy, lazy. She offers 10 sentence paragraphs, at most, and an incomplete list of the selective high schools (Brooklyn Latin which has been added to the selective group for a decade isn't even mentioned) and NO information whatsoever on top competitive public high schools like Bard High School, Beacon, Eleanor Roosevelt. All this book does is provide a list of schools, and that's not saying much when there are many FREE online resources doing the same. Save your money. And publishers take note: time for a new entry! Won't take much to knock this off it's thrown.
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