*  In looking for people like Yilmaz who scored near the cutoff, I was blown away by the number of people—in their twenties through their fifties—who remember this test-taking experience from their early teens and speak about missing a cutoff in dramatic terms. This includes former congressman and New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who says he missed Stuy by a single point. “They didn’t want me,” he told me, in a phone interview.