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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
I mentioned I went to college with about half the class being from boarding schools, but most of the rest were from elite day schools or top quality public schools (e.g. New York's Stuyvesant and Bronx Hgh School of Science, New Trier High in IL, New Canaan High in CT etc). The city kids mostly managed to get to and from their schools on public transit in NYC in a pre-Giuliani age when NYC was more gritty than today. I don't know if the credit for their success goes to their parents or the schools. I think a lot may go to their culture (yeah quite a few Jews in that group and today it would probably be Asians).
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Yes, the elite test-in NYC high schools have all switched from majority Jewish to majority Asian. Stuyvesant, probably the best, is 70%+ Asian. Secular Jews in the city tend to attend magnet publics or secular privates, and religious Jews obviously attend Yeshivas.
The elite high schools are 100% test admittance. They take the top scores, and that's that. Many white parents think they are too oriented towards rote learning.
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