Stuyvesant class of 2025 colleges

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are those poor students finding money to enroll in Curie like enrichment centers that prep for the merit test?

Curie is something like $3000/year all in. If education is a priority, you can make it work.

Many start at Curie in K and have dumped like $30k into enrichemtn by the time they apply to TJ.

So they start at 3-4 years old? It's more like $2K/year in elementary school

Anyways 30K over 10 years is less than a car payment.
It's not a matter of affluence, it's a matter of priorities.
Asians just prioritize education more than other groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are those poor students finding money to enroll in Curie like enrichment centers that prep for the merit test?

Curie is something like $3000/year all in. If education is a priority, you can make it work.

That's way less than most parents spend on youth sports.

[Anonymous]

Over the weekend I met a boy that was recently admitted (his dad is a college friend of DH's). He told me his son's prep started at age 6 and in later years he worked with a Columbia math professor. I had no idea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over the weekend I met a boy that was recently admitted (his dad is a college friend of DH's). He told me his son's prep started at age 6 and in later years he worked with a Columbia math professor. I had no idea!

It's not test prep. They're not prepping for the SHSAT at age 6 any more than they are prepping for the SATs at age 6. It's educational enrichment.

About half the kids at stuyvesant are on free/reduced lunch.
Very few are getting tutored by Columbia professors in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over the weekend I met a boy that was recently admitted (his dad is a college friend of DH's). He told me his son's prep started at age 6 and in later years he worked with a Columbia math professor. I had no idea!

It's not test prep. They're not prepping for the SHSAT at age 6 any more than they are prepping for the SATs at age 6. It's educational enrichment.

About half the kids at stuyvesant are on free/reduced lunch.
Very few are getting tutored by Columbia professors in middle school.

EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT.

The keys to Stuyvesant and TJ, for a large percent of smart but not really gifted kids, is: enrichment.

Mathnasium
Kumon
Russian math
AOPS
Khan
Currie

It is no secret. If the parents value education, push education, and can pay a little bit for extra enrichment, the kids will rise to the top. That cost of that Disney vacation or cruise would likely
pay for a years’ enrichment. It is a choice you, the parent, make.


Why does everyone pretend this is a mystery?