@Hypsplease you may want to read Fisher 2 vs the University of Texas. Taking race into account is legal in this country and not considered discrimination. @T26E4 hit the nail on the head.
@Gibby Stuy is not a TRUE meritocracy. You may want to read this article. http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2014/07/how-to-address-the-stuyvesant-problem-014376. Here is a short quote from the article
“The idea is that taking into account more factors would provide less of an unfair advantage to wealthy middle schoolers whose parents can pay for extensive test prep for the exam the schools now rely on.”
I had heard a lot about Stuy so the last time I was in NYC I walked by it. It looked like a prison to me. My kid goes to college with a couple of Stuy graduates. The former graduates described it as awful. They said the kids who go there are cut throat and vicious and that cheating was rampant. It doesn’t sound like a school that I would personally use as a model