Wow Stuyvesant in NYC has impressive college results

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Anonymous wrote:About 10% go to ivies[u]. Many kids (250+) go to SUNYs and CUNYs. It is a class of 900 students.

That’s low compared to private high schools.

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Oops, didn't realize I was reading "NYC Urban Moms and Dads"

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I went to Stuy. My year we had 25 acceptances to Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:There are about 900 kids in the graduating class and 120 posts on Instagram. I'm curious where the rest of the class is headed. With 900 seniors, I'd expect the top 10% headed to top colleges. These are the best students in NYC.

*Some* of the best. I live in NYC, and there are at least 15-20 amazing high-schools, both public and private. Brilliant kids also in Hunter, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, LaGuardia, Nest - publics; and Horace Mann, Trinity, Dalton, Brearley, Chapin, Spence, Collegiate, Saint Ann’s, Riverdale, Fieldston, Packer etc.

Last year, Horace Mann sent 21 of its graduating class of around 300 to The University of Chicago alone! That is 1% of Chicago’s entire freshman class.
I have heard from multiple people who work in admissions that if geography wasn’t a metric looked at by colleges, NYC (and Korea for that matter) would be heavily over-represented on college campuses.

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Anonymous wrote:About 10% go to ivies. Many kids (250+) go to SUNYs and CUNYs. It is a class of 900 students.

40% go to Ivies in a typical year

This is wrong. Last year’s graduating class was close to 950. No way 350 students went to Ivies. Not even close. 10-15% is correct.

The top 7-8 privates in New York with much smaller classes do however send 40-45% of their classes to Ivies + Stanford. Collegiate, Brearley, Spence and Chapin have classes of around 60-70 kids.

Hunter out of all NYC publics has better exmissions than Stuy because of its much smaller size too.

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Stuy sends about 50 to Cornell a year, and that's their top Ivy every year. So there's no chance it's 40% a year.

They send more to NYU, which is always surprising to me. like 75 kids. NYU isn't great with FA for most kids, but maybe they are generous with lower income.

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Anonymous wrote:About 10% go to ivies. Many kids (250+) go to SUNYs and CUNYs. It is a class of 900 students.

40% go to Ivies in a typical year

I am from NYC and know Stuy very well. Infact my kid got in but chose to go elsewhere. The data shows acceptances and not matriculation, so the same kids get into multiple ivies. There is no way 40% go to Ivies. Also, a handful go to top ivies and the bulk go to Cornell.

Cornell has the strongest engineering program of the Ivies plus has some programs which favor NY residents. It makes total sense that a NYC STEM Magnet would feed to Cornell.

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Anonymous wrote:Stuy sends about 50 to Cornell a year, and that's their top Ivy every year. So there's no chance it's 40% a year.

They send more to NYU, which is always surprising to me. like 75 kids. NYU isn't great with FA for most kids, but maybe they are generous with lower income.

I would imagine its because of scholarships plus the ability to commute from home vice pay for housing that makes it an attractive option for lower income families.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a massive school-almost 1000 kids per grade. A few dozen ivies is not all that impressive.

This…the Harvard numbers look horrible.

Boston Latin, Phillips Academy and Stuy High are the top three to have the most students admitted to Harvard. According to Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on most of those students were Asian I doubt this is an official school instagram account. But when you look at city public high schools and especially exam schools a majority of top students are from families who are new to the US, not just Asian countries.

I just looked it up. Stuy is 71% Asian.

TJ used to also be like 70% Asian but after the admissions changes, the last class was like 50% Asian.

Stuy is also high FARMS rate (like 40%).

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Anonymous wrote:The Asians cheat like crazy and study insane amounts and go to Cram schools of course they do well

Maybe more kids should cram studies so they get results like this.

I'd like to see your stats on Asian American students and cheating.

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Anonymous wrote:Stuy sends about 50 to Cornell a year, and that's their top Ivy every year. So there's no chance it's 40% a year.

They send more to NYU, which is always surprising to me. like 75 kids. NYU isn't great with FA for most kids, but maybe they are generous with lower income.

Cornell and NYU are both excellent schools.

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Fact of the matter is that the Ivies have started to move on from schools like Stuy and TJ in favor of very wealthy international students.

So yeah, 30 years ago Stuy would send 25-30 to Harvard alone. But today? Harvard doesn't want that many kids from Stuy. Sure, Stuy grads will have an outsized number of placements in banking, tech, etc compared to other high schools. But those wealthy foreign kids are development cases from Day 1 and their families are more than happy to start donating if it can cement a long-lasting relationship with Harvard or Yale.

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Cornell is the most popular Ivy at Stuy because of the lower tuition cost of thecontract colleges within it. Cornell ILR is particularly attractive for those interested in business and law.Plus,NYS tuition programs can be used there. https://cornellsun.com/2023/11/20/the-in-state-applicants-guide-to-cornells-contract-colleges/#:~:text=For%20private%20or%20out-of-state%20students%2C%20the%20initial%20estimated,the%20contracted%20schools%2C%20this%20price%20drops%20to%20%2466%2C834.

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Anonymous wrote:There are about 900 kids in the graduating class and 120 posts on Instagram. I'm curious where the rest of the class is headed. With 900 seniors, I'd expect the top 10% headed to top colleges. These are the best students in NYC.

900 kids per grade??? That is a huge school.

Brooklyn Tech is 1000.