Bronx High School of Science

New York · 201 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 5 people before a trait can appear.

All of history equally The last decade or two Recent decades The last half-century

The era pills change the weighting: "recent decades" (the default) counts someone who graduated around 2010 far more than someone from 1940.

Prominent alumni

Steven Weinberg b. 1933	Neil deGrasse Tyson b. 1958	Leon Cooper b. 1930
Roy J. Glauber b. 1925	Sheldon Glashow b. 1932	Russell A. Hulse b. 1950
Hugh David Politzer b. 1949	Marvin Minsky b. 1927	Melvin Schwartz b. 1932
Jon Favreau b. 1966	Robert Lefkowitz b. 1943	Robert Moog b. 1934

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	15.9%	34
university professor	13.2%	41
journalist	13.2%	26
politician	11.5%	22
actor	10.8%	15
computer scientist	7.3%	15
television actor	7.3%	9
film actor	7.2%	10
lawyer	6.3%	14
film producer	5.5%	6
screenwriter	5.0%	10
novelist	4.7%	11
businessperson	4.7%	7
stage actor	4.6%	5
physicist	4.5%	15

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Occupation	× the national rate	People
biologist	17.6×	6
academic	14.6×	7
psychologist	14.2×	7
physicist	14.1×	15
computer scientist	14.1×	15
mathematician	12.7×	12
university professor	7.6×	41
researcher	6.3×	5
engineer	5.6×	7
author	3.9×	8
journalist	3.7×	26
novelist	3.3×	11
writer	3.2×	34
lawyer	2.2×	14
businessperson	2.2×	7

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2.4%	7
Harvard University	2.2%	7
Columbia University	2.2%	6
Princeton University	1.9%	5
Stanford University	1.8%	5
New York University	1.6%	5
University of Pennsylvania	1.6%	5
University of California, Los Angeles	1.5%	5

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this employer as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Employer	× the national rate	People
University of California, Los Angeles	16.8×	5
University of Pennsylvania	14.3×	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	12.7×	7
Princeton University	11.3×	5
Columbia University	10.7×	6
New York University	9.2×	5
Stanford University	9.2×	5
Harvard University	5.9×	7

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	8.7%	27
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	4.5%	12
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	3.2%	8
Fellow of the American Physical Society	2.5%	8
Nobel Prize in Physics	2.2%	7
National Medal of Science	2.0%	7
ACM Fellow	1.9%	5
John Jay Award	1.7%	5

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this award as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Award	× the national rate	People
Nobel Prize in Physics	63.5×	7
John Jay Award	49.7×	5
National Medal of Science	29.0×	7
ACM Fellow	24.0×	5
Fellow of the American Physical Society	22.7×	8
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	17.1×	12
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	10.0×	8
Guggenheim Fellowship	8.9×	27

Notes for the methodologically curious. Shares and multiples use recency weighting (people who came of age recently count more, per the era pills) and shrinkage: each school gets 20 virtual alumni at national rates, so a school with 4 noted alumni can't post a 200× multiple. High-school data on Wikidata is far sparser than college data — a missing trait usually means Wikipedia editors didn't record it, not that no alumnus has it.