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
journalist	16.6%	26
writer	16.0%	34
actor	13.0%	15
politician	12.7%	22
television actor	9.9%	9
film actor	9.3%	10
film producer	9.1%	6
computer scientist	8.0%	15
stage actor	7.5%	5
voice actor	5.9%	5
businessperson	5.6%	7
academic	5.1%	7
lawyer	4.9%	14
university professor	4.6%	41
screenwriter	3.8%	10

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
academic	12.7×	7
computer scientist	8.8×	15
biologist	6.5×	6
psychologist	5.3×	7
engineer	4.6×	7
physicist	4.1×	15
mathematician	3.6×	12
journalist	3.4×	26
university professor	3.1×	41
writer	2.5×	34
researcher	2.4×	5
film producer	2.4×	6
stage actor	2.3×	5
businessperson	2.2×	7
novelist	2.0×	11

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Columbia University	1.0%	6
Princeton University	0.9%	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	0.9%	7
Harvard University	0.7%	7
Stanford University	0.6%	5
New York University	0.5%	5
University of Pennsylvania	0.5%	5
University of California, Los Angeles	0.4%	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
Princeton University	5.6×	5
University of California, Los Angeles	5.5×	5
Columbia University	4.9×	6
University of Pennsylvania	4.3×	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4.2×	7
Stanford University	3.1×	5
New York University	2.8×	5
Harvard University	2.3×	7

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	3.0%	27
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	1.9%	12
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	1.6%	8
ACM Fellow	0.8%	5
Fellow of the American Physical Society	0.8%	8
Nobel Prize in Physics	0.7%	7
John Jay Award	0.7%	5
National Medal of Science	0.6%	7

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	44.6×	7
National Medal of Science	22.9×	7
John Jay Award	20.4×	5
Fellow of the American Physical Society	11.4×	8
ACM Fellow	8.3×	5
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	6.2×	12
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	6.2×	8
Guggenheim Fellowship	3.8×	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.