Talk:Saint Ann's School (New York City)
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Is the list of alumni in any particular order? — AnnaKucsma (Talk to me!) 18:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Academic strength
The introduction says "Academically, Saint Ann's is extremely strong: the school allows its high school juniors and seniors to essentially design their own curricula." I don't think that allowing juniors and seniors to design their own curricula necessarily means that the school is academically strong; would anyone be opposed to changing this? (MGS, 22 March 2008) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meghnaveli (talk • contribs) 15:58, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] alumni
I think that the list of alumni needs to be severely cleaned up. A good number of these "notables" are painfully obsecure and a few don't appear to have attended Saint Ann's at all. Is there anyone, who pays attention to this article, who would object if we limited the "notable" alumni to people with some name recognition and accomplishment? Lordjeff06 21:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
... And put into some sort of order (alphabetical?). See my comment above. — AnnaKucsma (Talk to me!) 14:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)- Never mind, I didn't see that you'd already handled it. — AnnaKucsma (Talk to me!) 14:23, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Ok. So, in a premptive defense of my alumni edit (not that anyone seems to care except for AnnaKucsma): I used a twofold system. First, anyone who seemed to have their own (semi-legitmate) wikipedia page was left as "notable." For the others, if a google search didn't yield any meaningful references to them or their works, they were stricken from the list. While I certainly don't mean to discredit anyone's accomplishments, someone whose work has only been published in their college newspaper or the Saint Ann's Review would seem to pale in comparison to Jennifer Connelly, Akiva Goldsman or, even, Michael Diamond. Lordjeff06 03:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- (...and no, I don't "mind" Lordjeff06's edits, as they included imposing some sort of order on the list — which is what I said was needed in August.) — AnnaKucsma (Talk to me!) 21:51, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I added alum writer Neil Gordon (meets criteria mentioned by Lordjeff06).David Couch 05:28, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] yearly culling
In what may become a yearly Christmas-time practice for me, I have once again gone through the list of "notable" alum and removed anyone who did not have a wikipedia article of their own or did not have significant Google search notability. Lordjeff06 (talk) 13:16, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] So typical.
You -do- know that no one really cares about the catalogue of children of NYC's second string social elite, right? If you're looking to bolster your selling points for inclusion on your grant applications for your latest creative project, my suggestion is to dredge the bottom of the St. Ann's review.
Really - so many alleged notable alum provided in the litany here are completely undeserving. It just looks pretentious and self adulating. I recommend the editors take a look at another High School entry and examine the recognized alumni list - you'll find legitimate entries and -not- simply people who paid to self publish their latest critical admonition of the latest urban theory. The number worthy of inclusion here is less than five. Should be fixed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.213.112 (talk) 22:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
