Bronx Science from Brooklyn
Our child was accepted to Bronx Science for next year. Does anyone know how kids from Brooklyn (Park Slope) get there? Do parents get together and hire a bus? Or is it the long subway ride only? Would love to be in touch with anyone going there now or next year.
Our child was accepted to Bronx Science for next year. Does anyone know how kids from Brooklyn (Park Slope) get there? Do parents get together and hire a bus? Or is it the long subway ride only? Would love to be in touch with anyone going there now or next year.
I am not the original forum poster: just a Bed-Stuy parent very, very happy to have a daughter who put Brooklyn Tech first on her list and who scored high enough for Bronx Science, and very close to the Stuy cutoff but put neither school on her list. Brooklyn Tech was always her (and my) first choice.
Just sayin that BxSci might have been number 3 on Galleryart’s kid’s list, after Stuy and Lehman, which I hear required a higher score than BxSci this year–first time ever. Also the poster may have anticipated better results on the so-called “regular” list but got an unacceptable choice, or no choice at all–I know several families that happened to this year and they don’t want to take a chance on a selection to be announced with the “everyone else” pool on March 23. Or maybe visions of La Guardia with no results. Our “regular” school offer was a disappointment as was La Guardia (no offer) but we got the one we wanted most. But that’s not always the way it works, as you should know.
As a Brooklyn Tech graduate (71) I think that the easiest thing to do would have been to choose the quick commute to Fort Greene. Seriously, I traveled to Tech from Howard Beach – 50 minutes / A train. The commute, often w/ other students is half the fun. Get out a subway map and figure out the best route to The Bronx. Enjoy! (“buses” are for private school wusses).
In Philly we all took a trolley and then a subway, except during the transit strike, when we walked. Uphill.
I knew kids who did a similar commute in the ’90s, and it was no big deal.
When I was in HS, I lived on LI and commuted via the LIRR to high school (in another part of LI). The commute was 1:30 each way, but was not a big deal at all.
Plus, my uncle commuted from LI to Regis on the LIRR and subway – lots of time to read on the commute.
bx sci typically has a higher cutoff than bk tech, which is next door.
why would you rank bx sci ahead of bk tech w/o doing a bare modicum of research?
that’s why we passed on bronx sci although i now think sending the kid on 80 min subway is no big deal, actually. so in hindsight i think we made a mistake.
watch your assumptions, rh, they come back at you nine times out of ten.
Agree with rf. Give it a break. Lots of parents cough up for private bus fare to public schools, particularly middle schools in Brooklyn, such as Mark Twain, which has lots of private bus traffic. I’m sure you can find a collective of Brooklyn parents to pull it off, if it doesn’t already exist. Hiring a bus is a whole lot cheaper than private school tuition, and congrats to this child who is going to get an excellent education on the public dime!
Antidope,
My guess is that Bronx Science was not the first choice of this child. When you take the test, you rank your choices and get into the first school on your list for which your score qualifies you. If they are admitted to a specialized high school (Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, plus 5 newer, smaller schools), you also find out about which school was selected for you from the “regular” list, which you also list in order amongst the 400+ high schools in NYC. And if you auditioned for La Guardia H.S. for the Performing Arts, you find out about that too. THen you get to choose from among the schools to which you were offered a seat. This is an extremely arcane, complicated process often with unanticipated results and it’s very possible that a school that takes 1.5 hours to get to via public transportation is the best choice.
When you have an 8th grade kid, come back and talk about the high school admissions process in NYC.
Galleryart,
First of all, congratulations!!!
Here’s a link from the BxSci website about bus services:
http://www.bxscience.edu/bus.jsp?rn=9429004
Apparently nothing direct from Brooklyn but I’m sure your kid could hook up with a bus in Manhattan.
The rest of you–walking 14 miles, each way, barefoot, uphill both ways? Give me a break! And as for doing homework on the train, have you ever taken the D train during rush hour?
from the parent of a new Brooklyn Tech kid! yay!
so you applied to bx science w/o thinking about the commute.
nice.