<p>I actually go to Stuyvesant, unlike biggyboy and auxsoleil, so I’m not just assuming things when I say things about this school. There are a few really talented/intelligent people in our school and just some really confident kids in the school who consider Columbia a safety( i know one kid who basically said, “I’m ending up in either Harvard or MIT” and he’s going to Harvard next year), but most of us don’t. We do care a lot about college, which means we also care about our SAT scores, but then again, most people who want to get into a good college do these days. Academics at Stuy are a lot tougher than the ones in regular high school, and some people are really competitve. We have escalators (we have 10 floors used for academics), but they don’t run on the first or tenth floor and they break sometimes.
As a response to biggyboy(who sounds like a Stuy reject in his post):
- We are not all Hunter rejects. There are many kids who tried out for Hunter and got rejected, but there are also kids who didn’t bother to take the test for whatever reason. Also, I know a handful of kids who went to Hunter and decided to come to Stuy.
- We’re not all math nerds. There are many math geeks in the school, but also kids who prefer history/English, and there are those who excel in everything.
- Most students in my school take extracurriculars because they enjoy them. Yes, there are some who just do it for college.
And to auxsoleil:
Oh really? What high school do you go to? Whenever someone asks me what high school I attend, they know the name immediately (both Asians and non-Asians). I can’t think of private school better known than Stuy right now. Actually, the only private school I can think of right now is Regis, and that is only because the speech/debate team always has competitions there.</p>