Chapter 47： accidentally invited

"Stuyvesant High School!"

As soon as Hibbert finished speaking, Zuo Li put his hand on Coach Hibbert's forehead. After realizing that he had no fever, he turned his head to look at the sky from the window.

No problem, the sun still rises from the east, and it's still broad daylight. The coach's head doesn't burn, so why is he talking nonsense.

"This, coach, did you mispronounce your name?" Zuo Li reminded in a low voice, there are so many high schools in New York, and some names are indeed very similar. After all, foreigners' names are always monotonous. There is no trick to the combination of words and combinations. One mispronunciation may lead to a change of school.

For example, Stevenson is in California, and Stuyvesant is in New York, so when you apply for the exam, you must read it clearly, otherwise you can’t blame others for getting admitted to Harbin Buddhist College.

"That's right, I've been in New York for so long, how can I still admit to the wrong school, it's Stuyvesant!" Hibbert replied loudly.

Zuo Li, on the other hand, felt a bit square.

Speaking of being in New York, who has not heard the name of Stuyvesant High School? As one of the few high schools in the nation's public high schools, it is definitely the cradle of talents. Since its establishment in 1904, it has always been the top public high school in the United States The Ace School of the Five, which is also the best public high school in New York.

Someone once said, "American public schools are scum, and elites go to private schools." This sentence is only wrong when encountering certain public high schools, and Stuyvesant High School is one of them.

Just look at his admission rate. Just last year, 3.67% of Stuyvesant High School graduates went to Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University, ranking ninth in public high schools in the United States. If you count other top schools including the Ivy League University, the admission rate is about 25%.

As for his honor, that's more, let go and say a chapter, this stuff is okay, but it's not necessary, those who are interested can search for it by themselves.

As for how Zuo Li knew so clearly, of course, it was because Zuo Li worked as a basketball assistant in a public high school in New York City before he crossed the road, so he naturally knew something about the entire public high school in New York City.

But it doesn't matter, what matters is...

"Stuyvesant High School also has basketball?" Zuo Li definitely asked this sentence from the bottom of his heart, because he led his high school to play many high school leagues in his previous life, but he never encountered Stuyvesant College...

"Cough, cough, of course, but we have been playing in the second state league, so..." At this time, the uncle in the suit, who had been silent all the way, finally couldn't help speaking.

At this time, Zuo Licai learned from Mr. Derek's introduction that this white uncle in a pleated suit turned out to be the vice principal of Stevenson High School. His name was Harry Wells, and he was in charge of sports.

"This, you know, our sports have never been very good..."

"Cough cough cough, I'm sorry, you can continue." Zuo Li coughed twice, almost couldn't hold back, who doesn't know in New York, Stuyvesant is so good in learning, and sports are like pulling his hips. In New York In all high school sports evaluations, Stuyvesant is an embarrassing B-.

"We just changed the principal. Like you, she is also a yellow race. In addition to still attaching great importance to the quality of teaching, she also proposed to increase investment in sports, and rebuilding the basketball team is the most important part of it."

"So we want to invite you to join our basketball team!"

"Uh, but you can only get in by passing the exam." Zuo Li scratched his head. Stuyvesant is notoriously difficult to take the exam. About 26,000 students sign up for the school's admissions exam every year, of which only about 800 are admitted. Students are admitted, and the acceptance rate is only 3%.

The test includes math (word questions, computer) and language (reading, logical reasoning, paragraph ordering) proficiency tests. According to New York regulations, admission can only be obtained by taking a competitive, objective, academic test. In a word , those who enter are absolute academic masters.

Although Zuo Li's grades are good and his brain is very smart, he has been getting A's in the past few years, but it takes a little trouble to get in.

"We have already taken this into consideration, so we have a special quota. As long as you pass the benchmark of our exam, we can recruit you into the school, and you will be provided with food and accommodation, as well as scholarships!"

"Is that so..." Zuo Li nodded, this condition is full of sincerity.

And this also makes sense. In the last life, I heard that Stuyvesant had changed to a Chinese principal, and the proportion of Chinese in the school was getting higher and higher. It turned out that it was in the past two years.

As for rebuilding the basketball team, it is not difficult to understand. New officials always want to do something, but Stuyvesant's cultural achievements have always been top-notch. Except for a few high schools in New Jersey and California, they can learn There is almost no pressure on it, so it is too difficult to start from here and improve.

Then sports is the best direction to start. After all, the foundation is poor, which means there is a lot of room for improvement.

Not to mention that schools with good cultural performance do not care about their performance in other fields. On the contrary, they all care about their performance in other fields.

A simple example, in addition to studying at Harvard and Yale, the annual rowing competition has become the focus of competition. The rowing competition between the two sides has a history of more than 150 years This event has also attracted people from all over the world. Eyes, as for Stanford and Berkeley, have always fallen in love with each other for football results, in the United States, there are countless such examples.

And basketball performance has always been a weapon for other schools to ridicule Stuyvesant High School. According to New Yorkers, Stuyvesant is a basketball desert.

In order to change this situation, Harry was entrusted with the important task, um, mainly to find talents, but obviously, this is not easy, after all, people who play well have better choices, as long as they can show their faces at all ages, it is not at all. The lack of high school requirements, as for Stuyvesant's better high school education, is not very attractive to those who are determined to enter the professional team.

To be honest, even for Zuo Li, it was the same, even if he offered a passable condition, Zuo Li was still a little hesitant.

Seemingly seeing Zuo Li's hesitation, Hibbert took the initiative to say to Harry: "Old man, we have already met, and the conditions have been stated. Give us three days to consider, because Zuo Li will sign with AND1 tomorrow. We also need to discuss the issue of contracts.”

Harry could only sigh helplessly when he heard it: "Okay, then three days. I'll contact you again in three days, and give me an answer anyway."

Harry left after speaking, and he didn't forget to buy the coffee order before he left. This was definitely enough homework, but judging from his expression, it was obvious that he had no hope of joining Zuo Li.

"Hey, this talent can still be found there." Harry was very sad, the vice-principal in charge of sports was really Stuyvesant's humblest vice-principal.

And Zuo Li didn't hide it after seeing Harry gone, and said directly, "Coach, my original plan was to apply to Oak Hill High School!"