Blaeser/Moy - Perfection or Monkeys got lucky?

[ugarte]

I knew a few people from Westchester.  I can't say that I knew of any that lived in NJ.

Sorry about this very parochial thread drift.  Hey, JTW - now you know how I feel when I click through and end up reading a post about semipro baseball in Sweden! ;-)

[Keith K \'93]

FWIW - I went to Hunter High ('89) and knew a few people who lived in either NJ or Westchester but used NYC addresses to keep attending.

[ursusminor]

Josh,

It could be the RPI education. ;-)

Jayson and I had an email exchange some time ago in which he insisted that Stuyvesant has always been a better rated school than BHSS. Stuyvesant certainly appears to take more awards these days than BHSS, but this wasn't the case in the 1960's. BHSS suffered from the fact that the Bronx, its main source of students, became a war zone. I was one of 44 students in BHSS'64, a class of about 850, from Queens. Now the school is over half from Queens. Also, when I was in HS, BHSS was coed and Stuyvesant was not which meant that BHSS had a larger pool of potential students. Furthermore, now Stuyvesant is the one with a new, modern building.

Just remember that when Daniel Libeskind (BHSS'65), the architect who designed the new WTC for NYC, was asked whether he was part of the grand conspiracy of Bronx Science graduates to rule the world, he replied noncommitally and only stated "It's a wonderful school; you meet so many people who have gone there." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/nyregion/28BUIL.html :-D

Sorry for continuing this off-topic conversation, but sadly for me, it's off-season. :`(



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[Robb]

Not at all, Greg.  I went to a public high school in the hills of East Tennessee (dropout rate ~20%) - and arrived at Cornell with 27 AP credits in my pocket.  School is way more about what you put into it than what it "puts into" you.....

[jtwcornell91]

BigRed Apple wrote:
Sorry about this very parochial thread drift.  Hey, JTW - now you know how I feel when I click through and end up reading a post about semipro baseball in Sweden! ;-)

Switzerland, dude, not Sweden.

I haven't joined in because I doubt anyone here has even heard of Poughkeepsie Day School.  Although I did meet the brother of a PDS alum at a conference last week.

[ugarte]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:
Switzerland, dude, not Sweden.

Of course.  How embarrassing.  I shouldn't post at the end of the day on so little sleep.  As for "Sweden" it must be playoff fever. I've got Murray on my mind. . .

[Ken Deschere]

Having gone to the local public schools there (through HS at Poughkeepie HS) and with a son now at Vassar,  I'm one person who knows the Day School and holds it in high regard.  Did you commute from Kingston or did you live on the East side of the Hudson back then?

Ken '71

[CU at Stanford]

Me, McKinley High School, downtown Honolulu.  And I was the only public school student from Hawaii to Cornell in the Class of '87.

[ugarte]

That is because 99 out of 100 students who choose Ithaca's weather over Honolulu's are certifiable.  The admissions office must have sensed the hockey fan in you.

[jtwcornell91]

Commuted from Kingston. (I was originally supposed to go to Ulster Academy before they folded.)  Six years by bus/van and my senior year by car.  I listened to a lot of WPDH. B-]

[EZ \'02]

Stop wasting our time showing off about your public schools.  You get what you pay for.  If you didn't believe that you would have gone to CUNY instead of Cornell. (Andover)  :-P

[kingpin248]

Screw BU. ::flipb::

- Matt, Northport '99

[CUlater \'89]

My roommate freshman year was from Hawaii and a housemate junior yeat was as well.  They each had a handful of high school classmates who chose Cornell too.  But the only one of my friends who complained about the climate was a roommate from Flagstaff, AZ  ::nut::

[CUlater \'89]

In the '80s, Stuyvesant was considered the better school, if you judge by the cutoff scores for the exams and the number of applicants who put Stuyvesant as their first choice.  That seems to me to be the only realistic way to judge how schools like that rate, since awards and the like are influenced by so many outside factors.