Stuyvesant High School
Stuyvesant High School, founded in 1904, is a math and science public secondary school in New York City, New York. Admission to Stuyvesant, which handles grades 9 through 12, is based solely on an entrance exam, and tuition is free. Stuyvesant is one of the most prestigious public high schools in the United States.
- Sing a song of atoms, a pocket full of bombs
Four and twenty scientists in a Cyclotron.
When they turned the switch on the men began to bawl.
Wasn't that a pretty dish for David Lilienthal?
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- —The Spectator, September 1961, on the cyclotron project
- There was no nonsense about grades at Stuyvesant. ... You were expected to get 100 on the New York State Regents. When I got a 98 on, I think, Solid Geometry, my friends asked if I had been ill."
- I went from Stuyvesant to Columbia College. Columbia to me was much easier than Stuyvesant. From Columbia College I went to Harvard Law School, and Harvard Law School was easier than Stuyvesant. Stuyvesant was the toughest place I went to.
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- — Bernard Nussbaum '54 http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv
- My first year there... That year is the most difficult year I've ever had in an educational setting. Forget about the first year of law school, the first year of college... That year in Stuyvesant really kind of gave me confidence in a way. Having gotten through it, I became convinced that there was almost nothing I could not do educationally, intellectually.
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- — Eric H. Holder Jr. '69 http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv
- It doesn't matter if your Dad went here; it doesn't matter if your sister or brother went here; [Stuyvesant] basically takes whoever passes that exam. There are very few places in this country that do that. http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv
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- — Ian Bruce Eichner '62