Applying to Stuyvesant

More than half of the freshmen attended selective public schools, while 39.6 percent attended zoned public schools. Only 4.5 percent of students went to private school, while even fewer students went to parochial school. Home-schooled students formed a minority at 0.1 percent.

The majority of students who attended a selective public school were white (64.3 percent), while the majority of students who attended zoned public schools or parochial schools were Asian.

While most students (27.9 percent) studied for the SHSAT six months to a year before the exam, a surprising 21.2 percent of students studied for over a year. Only 4.1 percent of students did not study.

The majority of students who studied for over a year were Asian, while the majority of students who did not study were white. The students who prepared for the most time were largely from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, while the students who prepared for the least amount of time were largely from upper middle class backgrounds, possibly because they had the option of going to prestigious private schools.

The incoming class largely utilized preparatory classes to study for the SHSAT. Most of the students who went to preparatory classes, including the SHSI program, were Asian. Additionally, 14.5 percent of students self-studied. Students who prepared for the largest amount of time studied through preparatory classes, while students who prepared for the least amount of time self-studied.

A prominent 51.4 percent of freshmen said that parental pressure played some sort of a role in their decision to attend Stuyvesant. Relatively few students had no say in the decision to attend Stuyvesant, but of these students, the majority have parents whose highest level of education is high school. Of the students who made the decision to attend Stuyvesant by themselves, the majority were black, Hispanic, or other. For upper middle class students, parental pressure did not play as significant of a role as it did for middle class and lower class students.