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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in NYC. My kid got the necessary score to go to Stuyvesant. We opted out. Total striver fest. It is big enough that this does not refer to everyone. It is very heavily Asian. But there are Asian kids there who are not strivers. But there are many who are. And some non-Asians who are.

It seemed like a miserable place to go to school. My child is smart enough to succeed there. And there are plenty of kids who go there and end up as smart, well-rounded, kind, well-adjusted human beings. But too many don't. Not how we wanted them to spend four years. Bronx Science also had lots of strivers, but it did not permeate the culture in the same way.

IYKYK (that means If You Know You Know - a good term to differentiate non-strivers from strivers).[

"Sounds like "striver"  is just your lack of faith in your own child's personality and your parenting." [/quote]

Eh, I had a kid at Stuy and another at Bx Sci.
The above poster is right. Stuy is kind of miserable. I wish my Stuy kid had gone to Bx Sci instead.
There's a part of me that wonders if things would have turned out better if they went to Beacon where everything is so much easier.
My Bx Sci kid is now in college with a Beacon kid (both from same middle school). The Beacon kid had the scores for specialized but the family figured the kid would stand out at Beacon and thus had a far easier time scoring a college acceptance than my Bx Sci kid.[/quote]

If Stuy is too hard for your kid than another school is better. My nephew loved Stuy, and my friends who went to Stuy (many years ago) loved it.

But you are talking about “scoring a college acceptance” which marks you as the “striver”, not the Stuy kids.[/quote]

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