Talk:Stuyvesant High School

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Contents 1 Pronunciation 2 Ivy League Cap 3 sending more students to the nation's most prestigious universities than any other school, public or private....just wrong? 4 Alumni 5 Law and Order

[edit] Pronunciation

Can we get an IPA pronunciation for "Stuyvesant" and particularly "Stuy"? (Is "Stuy" pronounced "sty" as the school's full name, or "stoy"?) Dylan (talk) 15:44, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I think it is "/ˈstаɪvɛsənt/", although I don't know IPA well enough to put it in the article. The first syllable is pronounced "stye" as in "pig sty", not "stwee" as it might be in Dutch, and receives the emphasis (STUY-ve-sant). The second syllable has a hard "v" and an almost unvoiced "e", sort of a "veh". The final syllable with a soft "s" and an again barely-voiced "a". The spoken-Wikipedia article linked near the bottom of this one pronounces it correctly in the first word. RossPatterson (talk) 01:42, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Done. Had to get some help :-) RossPatterson (talk) 00:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ivy League Cap

In the section with the college admission stats, I think it ought to be noted that many Ivy League schools place a cap on how many Stuyvesant students they take. I've heard its also true for other prestigious high schools. I'd include the information myself, but I don't have an official source. Could someone find one and put it up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.107.83.147 (talk) 01:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

If you have a reliable source to cite, go ahead and add it. RossPatterson (talk) 17:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] sending more students to the nation's most prestigious universities than any other school, public or private....just wrong?

How does the reference for this statement back up its veracity? The WSJ article talks only about 8 prestigious schools, not all of them. Plus, I don't understand the "arguably" best in the nation based on that stat...the WSJ article assessed success rates, and Stuyvesant didn't do particularly well on that front.

Stuyvesant is a good enough school that we shouldn't need to invent stats. This language should be deleted from the intro, and some discussion of success can be introduced in the main article. LedRush (talk) 18:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alumni

There's a deletion review of the alumni categories for all US high schools, including Category:Stuyvesant High School alumni. Occuli (talk) 19:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, there are lots of those categories that have 1-5 members, unlike Category:Stuyvesant High School alumni's 141. And those are much better sourced than the averags HS alumni. Should the Deletion Review cause the categories to be removed, I'm going to request a re-review of this one on that basis. RossPatterson (talk) 01:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

There are quite a few other large and properly sourced ones (Phillips, Baltimore). Not sure if they will try Category:Old Etonians next. Occuli (talk) 01:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Law and Order

Isn't Stuyvesant mentioned often on Law and Order? I think many of the high school students featured on the show are said to attend Stuyvesant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.96.37.14 (talk) 20:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)