Stuyvesant vs. Townshendharris vs. Horrace Mann

keefer
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:05:40 +0000

It’s high school… what’s the big deal?

But…if you don’t mind 30k a year for high school or you can get a sizable scholarship, it’s Horace Mann hands down. Not even close.

Stuy is a bitter experience for a lot of people, you have a ton of gunners going for the few leadership positions in extra-curriculars. There’s no difference between stuy and a good neighborhood school in terms of getting into elite colleges, as long as you have the SATs, stuy does teach you to survive in a tough environment, but other than that, it’s a bad deal, not to mention most people have to travel pretty far to get there every day. Stuy’s average SAT is 1400. The average stuy student can probably goto a regular neighborhood hs and finish in the top 5% with ease.

Everyone I’ve known from Townsend Harris liked it, it’s a smaller environment, more humanities focused, you read a ton, lots of great intellectual exchanges, not as many gunners as Stuy, yet still very competitive.