The Hunter College H.S. Entrance exam for 2013 will be Friday, January 11. The 2012 5th grade Statewide Exam cutoff scores for Hunter College H.S. is 690 for the E.L.A. and 733 for math.
This year, Elite placed 9 students into Hunter College High School.
About 100 Elite students enter Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech High Schools and other prestigious high schools, such as Townsend Harris every year.
Our branch in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey consistently does well in placing students into Bergen Academy and other reputable schools.
The nationwide trend towards Saturday enrichment education programs for kids examined; scenes shown from classes in Detroit and New York City designed to help the students cram and compete.
While their friends played video games in pajamas or vacationed in the tropics, a dozen sixth graders spent winter break at Elite Academy in Flushing, Queens, memorizing word roots. Time was ticking as they prepared to face the thing they had talked about, dreamed about and lost sleep over for much of the past year: the Hunter College High School admissions exam, a strenuous three-hour test that weeds out about 90 percent of those who take it.
Well, at least more of us are getting more education, says the U.S. Census Bureau.
Among New Yorkers 25 and older, 79% had at least graduated from high school in 2005, up from 72% five years ago. And 32% had a bachelor's degree or more, compared with only 27% in 2000.
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