Talk:Collegiate School (New York)

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Assessment: Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school article. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and I'm reviewing this page. I'm currently giving it a grade of Start on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and an importance of Top on this importance scale. For information on improving this article, please visit the WikiProject Schools Project Page. My reasoning is as follows: Very old school for the US although there is quite a debate about whether it is the oldest US school. Alumni includes JFK. Good article at present. Why this school isn't assessed already is difficult to decide Victuallers 19:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Reassess - more refs and pics for a B Victuallers 20:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Oldest educational institution in North America"

Whoever keeps vandalizing this article to misstate that the Collegiate School is the oldest educational institution in North America, please stop. The National Autonomous University of Mexico, founded in 1551, is quite simply over 75 years older. There are other older educational institutions as well. Wikipedia is not a forum for advertising or boosting your school, it is a repository of fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.39.176 (talk • contribs)

You cannot simply delete article discussion because you do not like what it says, or you will be reported.

In brief: "North America" does NOT mean "the United States." It includes Canada, the United States, and Mexico, which possesses education institutions older than Harvard and, yes, Collegiate. This is a simple matter of fact.

The New York Times article cited in support of the "North America" claim never once mentions "North America," only "the nation." I doubt the citer even read it; check ProQuest. This issue is very simple; again, please stop the vandalism or you will be reported. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.39.176 (talk • contribs)

It is not the oldest independent school; rather, it is the oldest SCHOOL! The NY Times article says: "If accurate, the 1628 date would make Collegiate, now nonsectarian, the oldest school in the nation, predating Boston Latin School, according to Collegiate officials. Boston Latin, a public school founded in 1635 to prepare students for Harvard University, celebrated its 350th anniversary last Tuesday." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.175.100.14 (talk • contribs)

Notice the term "If accurate" <-- the validity of the oldest school claim is in dispute, while the validity of the oldest independent school claim is not. Either we put a modifier around the oldest school claim, or we put a direct statement of the oldest independent school claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NYC5 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Edits to Hopkins School

I'm happy to admit that Hopkins is #3 if it's true, but are you sure TCS has been CONTINUOUSLY operating, as that's what the section you edited referred to? Are you certain it didn't close for WWII or something? Staxringold 02:39, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Yep. Upon checking Roxbury Latin School (an article that made a similar claim), Collegiate closed down briefly during the Revolution so while you are older than Hopkins you are not an older school in continuous operation. Staxringold 02:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

This article makes several claims which are unsubstantiated. There have been several requests to cite them, but no sources have been added. Therefore, the claims will be removed until citations are integrated into the article. If the statements are true, it should be easy to verify them with reliable outside information. Wikipedia must remain credible; unfortunately, we cannot simply trust every Internet user to be 100% right all the time, so sources are an important method of maintaining accountability.

[edit] WSJ - Collegiate NOT named top secondary school

Collegiate was not named the top secondary school in the April 2, 2004 edition of the Wall Street Journal. St. Ann's was named the top school in the country, and other NY schools ranked in the nation's top ten include Trinity (3), Horace Mann (4), Dalton (8), and Hunter College High School (9). Collegiate did not make the list.

See the WSJ article directly for proof or (to avoid paying to read the archives) see College Bound News' summary of the WSJ article [1].

The April 2 Wall Street Journal examined those issues by looking at how 66 private and public high schools did in getting their students admitted to 10 exclusive colleges (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, U. Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Pomona, U. of Chicago, Duke). The top ten high schools were: Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, N.Y., tuition $20,500, success rate, 41 percent; Winsor School, Boston, tuition $23,800, success rate, 39 percent; Trinity School, New York City, tuition $23,475, success rate, 37 percent; Horace Mann School, Riverdale, N.Y., tuition $24,500, success rate, 35 percent; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., tuition $23,400, success rate, 30 percent; Deerfield Academy, tuition $23.005, success rate, 30 percent; National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C., tuition $21,850, success rate, 30 percent; Dalton School, New York City, tuition $24,680, success rate, 30 percent; Hunter College High School, New York City, tuition, $0, success rate 28 percent; St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., tuition $31,125, success rate 28 percent.

Wrong. From that very Wall Street Journal article, available for free here : "Our numbers thresholds, to be sure, excluded some small schools that had an extremely high admissions success rate. For example, New York's Collegiate School -- which John F. Kennedy Jr. once attended -- fell just below our minimum class-size requirement, with a graduating class last year of 49 students. However, a whopping 25 of them, or 51%, went to our college picks; that would have made it No. 1 in our study." RampageouS 21:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable alumni and attendees

It is not right to mislead readers by putting the two together. If there are notable attendees currently on the alumni list, we should move them to a "attendees" list.

Attendees are alumni. The words are synonyms. The distinction you seem to want to make would be alumni vs. graduates. - Nunh-huh 05:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that clarification. Some months ago, I had added some famous attendees who weren't necessarily graduates -- and then they were deleted. RahadyanS 19:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Should the list of alumnis be reordered either alphabetical order or in order of date they would have graduated? RahadyanS 20:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] article name

I'd like to propose moving this article from "The Collegiate School" to "Collegiate School (New York)". Per the Wikipedia naming conventions, there should not be a definite article in the page's name. As Collegiate School is currently taken by a disambiguation page, I think this is the best solution so as both to conform to the naming guidelines and disambiguate this article from the other Collegiates out there. I know that this is probably the "best known" of the similarly named schools, but I'm not sure that presents an "overwhelming" case for not putting the geographic distinction in the page name, too. If there are no real objections in a day or two, I'll make the move. Cheers! Esrever ^(klaT) 02:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "most academically prestigious"

I've reverted the additions to the article that include such statements as "Collegiate is perhaps the second most academically prestigious boys' school in the nation, right behind Massachusettes elite Roxbury Latin School, the oldest continually operated school in the US" and "the Brearley School, the United States most challenging girls' school," mostly because the cited websites don't say any such thing. Neither of the two sites that's been linked to (here or here) suggests any measure of comparative "academic prestige" among Latin, Collegiate, or Brearley. The former is merely a profile of Latin; the latter is a list of schools sending students to Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Neither of those two sites suggests that Collegiate is a better or worse school than any other school, and thus they have no place as citations for POVish statements. There are ample news sources that strive to "rank" high schools. Perhaps cite one of those instead. Esrever ^(klaT) 04:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC)