High Schools' selection and value in BA. Is Lincoln the best choice?

[sergio]

Needlessly abrasive.

I believe it costs over U$S 32,000 a year!

 

[Warm_breeze]

I believe it costs over U$S 32,000 a year!

how do people even afford this?!!!

 

[sergio]

how do people even afford this?!!!

It's a tiny elite. Lots of foreigners. That's why I said it's a bubble, USA style.

 

[darksider415]

A friend of mine went here, and it's easily one of the top schools in the country. https://www.cnba.uba.ar/

Definitely one of the best public schools in Argentina

 

[ArgentinaVet]

A friend of mine went here, and it's easily one of the top schools in the country. https://www.cnba.uba.ar/

Definitely one of the best public schools in Argentina

Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires unfortunately has become a Marxist indoctrination center over the last 30-40 years.
San Andres, Saint George, Newman, Lincoln, Northlands and a few others are the best private schools in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.

 

[artigas]

Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires unfortunately has become a Marxist indoctrination center over the last 30-40 years.
San Andres, Saint George, Newman, Lincoln, Northlands and a few others are the best private schools in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.

This is a lazy, outdated and erroneous stereotype of CNBA. CNBA is the premier secondary school in Argentina, unapologetically public and tuition free, having been expressly set up to identify and educate future generations of Argentine government and civic elites, not to serve as a expensive finishing school for the moneyed cheto scions of the oligarchy as some of the other schools you mentioned. The CNBA has produced two Nobel prize winners and four presidents of Argentina, countless ministers, generals, scientists and community leaders and continues to draw in the best students in the country. It is one of the few Argentine institutions in the country that remains highly selective and fully meritocratic, and its loyal alumni network is unmatched in Argentina. If you want to become part of the Argentine elite, be it the marxist or capitalist part, CNBA is the place you start. I know this as both my sons, went through the rigorous year long, ten exam selection process, attended and graduated from CNBA and went on directly to attend top Ivy League universities in the States. They both claim that the intellectual atmosphere and level of excellence of their CNBA education, its professors, subject matter, extracurricular activities and classmates fully prepared them, often better then their native US educated counterparts, for the rigorous and highly competitive nature of their respective elite US universities. Argentina has many faults and disappointments, but the CNBA is definitely an exception, an institution which has retained its excellence and standards since 1661.

 

[ArgentinaVet]

This is a lazy, outdated and erroneous stereotype of CNBA. CNBA is the premier secondary school in Argentina, unapologetically public and tuition free, having been expressly set up to identify and educate future generations of Argentine government and civic elites, not to serve as a expensive finishing school for the moneyed cheto scions of the oligarchy as some of the other schools you mentioned. The CNBA has produced two Nobel prize winners and four presidents of Argentina, countless ministers, generals, scientists and community leaders and continues to draw in the best students in the country. It is one of the few Argentine institutions in the country that remains highly selective and fully meritocratic, and its loyal alumni network is unmatched in Argentina. If you want to become part of the Argentine elite, be it the marxist or capitalist part, CNBA is the place you start. I know this as both my sons, went through the rigorous year long, ten exam selection process, attended and graduated from CNBA and went on directly to attend top Ivy League universities in the States. They both claim that the intellectual atmosphere and level of excellence of their CNBA education, its professors, subject matter, extracurricular activities and classmates fully prepared them, often better then their native US educated counterparts, for the rigorous and highly competitive nature of their respective elite US universities. Argentina has many faults and disappointments, but the CNBA is definitely an exception, an institution which has retained its excellence and standards since 1661.

At one time CNBA was in fact the premier secondary school in Argentina; illustrious figures such as Carlos Pelligrini, Marcelo T de Alvear, Manuel Belgrano and Bernardo Rivadavia were educated there; all the Nobel Laureates, Presidents, etc all attended CNBA more than a century ago . Unfortunately in the last 30-50 years or so the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires has produced Marxists such as Mario Firmenich, Axel Kiciloff, Mariano Recalde and Andres Larroque.

 

[QuilmesSlo]

This is a lazy, outdated and erroneous stereotype of CNBA. CNBA is the premier secondary school in Argentina, unapologetically public and tuition free, having been expressly set up to identify and educate future generations of Argentine government and civic elites, not to serve as a expensive finishing school for the moneyed cheto scions of the oligarchy as some of the other schools you mentioned. The CNBA has produced two Nobel prize winners and four presidents of Argentina, countless ministers, generals, scientists and community leaders and continues to draw in the best students in the country. It is one of the few Argentine institutions in the country that remains highly selective and fully meritocratic, and its loyal alumni network is unmatched in Argentina. If you want to become part of the Argentine elite, be it the marxist or capitalist part, CNBA is the place you start. I know this as both my sons, went through the rigorous year long, ten exam selection process, attended and graduated from CNBA and went on directly to attend top Ivy League universities in the States. They both claim that the intellectual atmosphere and level of excellence of their CNBA education, its professors, subject matter, extracurricular activities and classmates fully prepared them, often better then their native US educated counterparts, for the rigorous and highly competitive nature of their respective elite US universities. Argentina has many faults and disappointments, but the CNBA is definitely an exception, an institution which has retained its excellence and standards since 1661.

Congrats on your sons; that’s an impressive record these days (with Ivy admission so competitive)

 

[RichardAlem]

The Ivy League is competitive unless you are a legacy admission (George Bush / Ted Kennedy) or a DEI admission (Barack & Michelle Obama).

 

[QuilmesSlo]

The Ivy League is competitive unless you are a legacy admission (George Bush / Ted Kennedy) or a DEI admission (Barack & Michelle Obama).

Legacy isn’t super meaningful anymore unless you are politically and/or financially connected.

DEI, we’ll see. A lot of changes such as SCOTUS and the new Trump administration score/gpa/ethnicity reporting requirements.

Harvard went over 40% Asian last year.