Cardozo High: Inside the Queens Factory Where Global Teenagers Are Minted into Ivy-Ready Products
In Queens, New York, sits Benjamin N. Cardozo High School—a red-brick monument to the American conviction that meritocracy can be manufactured like plastic lawn flamingos. Named after the Supreme Court justice who once called law “a solemn farce,” the building now hosts a daily farce of its own: 3,800 teenagers trying to game the algorithm…