Personal Statement: Stuyvesant High School

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Stuyvesant High School is a specialized high school in New York borough of Manhattan. It is a very prestigious school focused on Science, Mathematics, and Technology. It is one of the top high schools in New York State. To be accepted into Stuyvesant, you have to take the Specialized High School Admissions Test and get a grade that is or above the school’s cutoff score for that year. Stuyvesant has an average cutoff score of five hundred and sixty-two. Through hard work and dedication, I achieved a score of five-hundred and seventy on the test and I got accepted into the school. Whether it is because it will be at a higher level than middle school, is about the very high school expectations from their students that I was hearing around me, …show more content…

From the academic point of view, subjects are expected to be advance therefore a lot harder. That is because they want us to get used to arduous endeavors, for the years of hard work ahead of us. I just hope that the knowledge and the preparation done for me during my middle school years will make me well equipped for the challenges my new school will give me. In addition to that, high school will be preparing us for the next level which is the college level and I expect that I will be trained to be an independent person as a whole. This will be a lot of adjustments on my part because the teachers where I am now are not only supportive but very attentive to all of us, their students. I fear that the teachers there will not be as considerate and caring the way my teachers do now. Of course, the teachers will care about the welfare of their students, but, maybe they will not be as warm as here in Blessed Sacrament. I just hope, that the teachers in Stuyvesant would not be exceptionally hard on freshmen students, so I could easily adjust to my new life as a high school …show more content…

One, me having a new school is having new faces around me. I don’t know anyone, so I have to start making friends. Since I am new, I am scared that it will take time for me to find friends, just Iike the friends that I have made in my middle school. Another thing, is that the commute from my home in Staten Island to Manhattan is long. In the beginning, I am scared of getting lost going to school, thus being late to school and my classes. I will not have enough time to do my homework too. Most of all, I am terrified because of that, it will affect my performance in

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