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2 unusual facts about Stuyvesant High School


Esmond Edwards

Edwards was educated in New York City schools, including Frederick Douglas (J.H.S.139), Stuyvesant High School and City College of New York.

Leon Davidson

Leon was a graduate of Columbia College (BS) and Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science (MA, PhD), majoring in Chemical Engineering, a career he selected at the age of 13 while a student at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.


Aleksandr Khazanov

He attended Stuyvesant High School, and was named a finalist and eventually placed 7th at the 54th Westinghouse Science Talent Search for a paper dealing with a variance of Fermat's Last Theorem.

David G. Grier

Raised in New York City and a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, Grier attended Harvard College, where he graduated with high honors in physics.

Himanshu Suri

Born and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Suri graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 2003, where he was the vice president when the September 11 attacks happened two blocks away.

M. G. Sheftall

Sheftall graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point for two years as a member of the Class of 1984, and received a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from Fordham University in 1985.

Paul Moskowitz

Moskowitz is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, received a Ph.D. in Physics from New York University, and has held research and teaching positions at the University of Grenoble, France, the University of Mainz, Germany, and the University of Colorado.

Specialized High Schools Admissions Test

In recent years, students who reside in Manhattan take it at Stuyvesant High School, in the Bronx at Bronx High School of Science, in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Technical High School, in Queens at Long Island City High School or John Adams High School, and in Staten Island at Staten Island Technical High School.


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