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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stuy parent here.

I know of at least 10 kids going to Harvard. Ivies are nowhere near 40%, but solid. Not everyone posts to Instagram (senior caucus may be more reflective)

And local schools and/or full scholarships are often deciding factors. Sophie Davis more coveted than HYP.

Stuy kids get hit w racism (as seen here). It is what America is. But it also propels a thousand first gen kids into the professional class year after year - and that’s what America can do. A New Yorker who lands in the hospital and hears the surgeon went to Stuy and Harvard - they care about the Stuy part. That’s all merit.

Some colleges don’t really want a school full of stuy kids. Some colleges are fine w it. I was on a Stuy college counseling zoom call where the guest was head of admissions at UChicago.  He said: [b]“I read one territory. And that territory is Stuyvesant High School”[/b][/quote]

What does the bolded mean? The Head of Admissions considers Stuy its own territory separate from its surrounding neighborhood? Aren’t all top schools considered this way?[/quote]

No, it means he personally reads the Stuy applications. That is all he reads. He of course is in the room for the committee deliberations but the territory he reads isn't NY or Southern California or East Asia. It's stuy. I've heard him say this too.[/quote]

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