Is Stuyvesant Over-Rated?

kwu
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:52:11 +0000

10.6 percent of Regis High School’s Class of 2008 enrolled at one of HYP, and 7.0 percent of Hunter College High School’s Class of 2008 enrolled at one of HYP.

Both of these schools are tuition-free, the former favoring boys from middle and working class immigrant families, the latter the City’s best public school. Both are far more diverse, ethnically and intellectually. Both are selective to the extreme, both are well-respected, and both offer a rich and rigorous learning experience in small classroom settings.

Admission to Stuyvesant is a pure meritocracy, and the sole factor considered is one’s performance on a single-sitting standardized exam.

It is exceedingly overrated.