Stuyvesant has had very successful graduates (see below). Sorry to burst your preconceived stereotypes.
Standardized tests have been revised repeatedly over the years to take out any hint of racial/cultural bias. The SAT itself has been revised at least 3 times since the late 1980s. Stuyvesant likes students who can study hard and thrive in an academically challenging environment. That’s not your cup of tea? Go elsewhere.
Frankly, it’s comical that so many families obsess over youth sports (of all things) - having their sons play on 3 different baseball teams at a time while denigrating those who choose to focus on other, more academic passions.
@collegedad13 I can call you neurotic for having whatever interests choose to focus on. That doesn’t make it so. Again, dispense with your racial stereotypes. They’re offensive.
Now that your children have already benefitted from Stuyvesant, you’re happy to tear it down so others may not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School
Stuyvesant is noted for its academic programs, having produced many notable alumni including four Nobel laureates.[95][96] U.S. News & World Report ranked it as one of the best high schools nationwide in their 2012 list of America’s best “Gold-Medal” public high schools[97] and fifth best in its 2012 list of STEM schools.
According to a September 2002 high school ranking by Worth magazine, 3.67% of Stuyvesant students went on to attend Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities, ranking it as the 9th top public high school in the United States and 120th among all schools, public or private.[98] In December 2007, The Wall Street Journal studied the freshman classes at eight selective colleges (Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Williams College, Pomona College, Swarthmore College, U. Chicago, and Johns Hopkins), and reported that Stuyvesant sent 67, or 9.9% of its 674 seniors, to them.[99]
Stuyvesant, along with other similar schools, has regularly been excluded from Newsweek’s annual list of the Top 100 Public High Schools. The May 8, 2008 issue states the reason as being, “because so many of their students score well above average on the SAT and ACT.”[100][101] U.S. News & World Report, however, included Stuyvesant on its list of “Best High Schools” published in December 2009, ranking 31st.[102] In its 2010 progress report, the New York City Department of Education assigned it the highest possible grade of “A”.[103]
Stuyvesant has contributed to the education of several Nobel laureates, winners of the Fields Medal and the Wolf Prize, and other accomplished alumni. In recent years, it has had the second highest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, behind Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia.[104] Over the past nine years (2002–2010), Stuyvesant has produced 103 semi-finalists and 13 finalists on the Intel Science Talent Search, the second most of any secondary school in the United States.[105]