<p>It's mostly likely Boston Latin School, out of its 300 graduating class a year, they usually send at least 20 to Harvard. My sis goes there, and got into Harvard.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a cutoff score for Stuy. The cutoff score is only apparent AFTER the results are in. By that I mean the first 700 or so kids who had the highest score on the SSHSAT and chose Stuy as their number one school would get in. Thus the cutoff score would be the lowest score of all the Stuy admits for that year. </p>
<p>Also Stuy rocks. We’re not just math and science people. In fact, I think that the english and history departments are way stronger than the math department.</p>
<p>I am a Stuyvesant High School alumnus (Class of 2007) so I am qualified to speak on this matter.</p>
<p>I happen to know everyone in my graduating class who happened to choose Stuy over Bx Sci/Bklyn Tech (and the 3 new specialized high schools) for good reason…wait, that’s because their SSHSAT test scores were higher 
Not our fault we’re the cream of the crop (top 2-3%)…</p>
<p>All kidding aside, I beg to differ with the claim of homogeneity at Stuy. Its culture is one of prestige and unmatched caliber in academic achievement, hence the fitting school motto “Tradition of Excellence/Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia” and the greatest common trait of its students is persistence. </p>
<p>For the record: Stuy does not have grade inflation, APs are not weighed 1.1 or anything, your GPA is simply an average of all your marks (unlike most prep secondary schools). </p>
<p>Also, it was not ‘anointed’ anything after being moved to its current 10 floor $150 million waterfront building in TriBeCa; rather it is the oldest, most prestigious, most desired, consistently highest ranked of the New York City public high schools, especially amongst the original trio of NYC specialized science high schools. It has always been the top high school, bar none, since 1904. For the record, Bronx Science High was founded by a contingent of Stuyvesant faculty, not unlike Yale’s founding by Harvard faculty. At the end of the day though, Stuy is Stuy and it’s the Harvard of high schools.</p>
<p>Stuy’s reputation is known by those outside the NYC DOE and students who are not familiar with it still rank it as their first choice. They are definitely right though; its facilities, academics, faculty and most particularly students are the very best the city has to offer.</p>
<p>Tiffany4085, there is in effect a cutoff score, because all examinees are ranked. Thus, the x+1st person did not meet the cutoff in a field of x/y (where y equals ~27000, 710/25k accepted when I took it back in 2002) where x is the number of students that put Stuy as their top choice (which is all but few). I think your first and last statements refute each other…perhaps too much thinking for a fellow Pegleg =)</p>
<p>My two cents on the SSHSAT: I think it’s unfairness stems from a perceived reward (education at a specialized high school, assumed to be chock-full of goodies like smarts and brains and knowhow not to mention allnighters, insomnia, lack of social life/real world skills) which hedges on a single test performance on an arbitrary test day and critics say that there are few Black/Hispanic students at these schools, which is true: all are dominated by Asians these days (previously the dominant demographic was white Jewish boys at Stuy) </p>
<p>However, all standardized exams are like that and there’s no other way of equalizing the playing field (you could have a GPA cutoff but in the nation’s largest public education system, that’s kinda hard and you might end up with severe gender disparity like Townsend Harris HS) and for those who might assume that all of us who got into one of the specialized science high schools had been prepping for it since day one in our cribs and went to tutoring or coaching or whatnot, it’s not true. I spent ~$30 on practice tests and two prep books (Barron’s/Kaplan) whereas a friend of mine spent ~$3000 on tutoring and our scores differed by less than 10 points, still over 50 points above the cutoff (607/800).</p>
<p>P.S. We send at least a dozen students to Harvard, yearly. This defies the longstanding “sine-curve” good year/bad year college admissions trend at Stuy…</p>
<p>2005 15
2006 23
2007 12</p>
<p>Not sure why this thread got dug up, but 02138 did some reporting + has stats on the high schools that produced Harvard’s class of 2012: [02138</a> - December 2008](<a href=“http://www.nyfamily-digital.com/nyfamily/200812/?pg=11]02138”>Loading...)</p>
<p>is this even still a question? not gonna read the whole thread, but it’s obv BLS</p>
<p>Glad to see Stuy at the top of NY acceptances, as always #1 =)</p>
<p>Andover sends alot of kids to Harvard and Yale…like more than Stuy, Horace Mann, Milton, Exeter, Deerfield, Choate,…etc.</p>
<p>stuy and bls both had around 26…i highly doubt andover had that much…</p>
<p>at the same time, one must take into account acceptances vs. class size for all those prestige hos out there</p>
<p>My school sends quite a lot to Harvard approx. 8 of a year of 90. But I would agree with BLS as having the most.</p>
<p>Harvard matriculates about 250 students from Massachusetts every year,i think 150 are from public schools,about 42 are from Great Boston(in city),out of the 42,30+are from Latin School.So out of the rest 108 students,I think 70 are from suburbs[winchester,lexington,belmont, dover-sherborn,acton,cambridge,somerville,weston,wellesley,newton,brookline,lincoln-sudbury,harvard,etc),and the rest 38 are from western MA and southeastern MA.
Boston Latin school is the Harvard-feeder public school,boarding school is andover.Totally 250ish students.</p>
<p>If you want to take both classsize and rate into consideration to measure a high school’s quality,you can definitely create a formula,say,a=classsize,b=acceptance rate,and substitute the number into the formula,then you get the answer,it works.</p>