Nerd school

[asterroc]

As if nerdcamp kids weren't strange enough, here's a whole NY Times article about people cramming for the entrance exam for the high school I went to. I can't recall being that insane about it myself.

Edit: The punchline at the end, what if they don't get in? "I’ll be sad, ... but there’s still Stuyvesant." LOL!

Comments

[oh-chris.livejournal.com]

wow. yeah, it was just "ok, kids, you're going to take the hunter test" for my class, and half a dozen of us got in. i didn't see it as make or break or anything.
i liked the stuy dig.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I think around 3-5 of my 6th grade classmates took it, which is surprising considering that we were in the "alpha" class - apparently my elementary school was one of the first in the city (borough?) to offer a gifted class, and that's what it was called, the alpha program.

[oh-chris.livejournal.com]

odd. we were a gifted program too, but called "gifted", and most of the class took it. and i'm pretty sure we didn't go to the same school...

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

You know that not just anyone can take it, you have to be invited based upon your city-wide standardized tests. Perhaps your school taught to those tests more than mine.