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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love the NY thread. The top publics are not nornal publics - its like have 8 TJs in NYC.

Specialized high schools are test-in high schools based on one test in 8th grade, the SHSAT, Something like 30,000 8th graders apply, take a one- shot 2 hour test, and Stuyvesant (arguably the top one) lets in 850 based on top scores and then a forced ranking the kid does when he applies). THE SHSAT is like a logic test - my kids took it and also got into Stuy, though they eventually went private. There are 8 or so schools like this. so the fact that this school (or one of the other 8, HSMSE) sends kids to the Ivy League is not surprising since they are already letting in the top academic performers under stress,.

This is also a problem because if you don't test well under pressure, you won't get into Stuy. [/quote]

What happens to academically average (such as, kids that will get 1000-1100 on the SAT when they take it) kids in NYC if they are middle class or poor? Guessing they go to charter schools, parochial or lottery into a random high school?[/quote]

Most go to public schools; there are very few zoned schools, so most HS pull from all over the city.  There are lots of schools for academically average kids.[/quote]

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