Brooklyn Technical High School
| Brooklyn Technical High School | |
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29 Fort Greene Place Brooklyn, NY 11217 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°41′20″N 73°58′37″W / 40.68889°N 73.97694°WCoordinates: 40°41′20″N 73°58′37″W / 40.68889°N 73.97694°W |
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| Type | Public, Magnet, Specialized |
| Established | 1922 |
| Founder | Dr. Albert L. Colston |
| School board | New York City Public Schools |
| School number | 430 |
| Principal | David Newman, interim acting |
| Faculty | 227 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 5,843 |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue and white |
| Nickname | Brooklyn Tech |
| Team name | Engineers |
| Newspaper | The Survey (official) / BTHSnews (student) /The Radish (student, satirical) |
| Yearbook | The Blueprint |
| Admissions | Competitive Examination |
| Website | bths |
Brooklyn Technical High School, commonly referred to as Brooklyn Tech, and administratively designated as High School 430, is a New York City public high school that specializes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It is one of three original specialized high schools operated by the New York City Department of Education, the other two being Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science. Brooklyn Tech is considered one of the most prestigious and selective high schools in the United States. Admission to Brooklyn Tech is highly competitive, with an acceptance rate around 8%. Brooklyn Tech is noted for the large number of its graduates attending prestigious universities, such as the Ivy League universities, MIT, NYU, Johns Hopkins University, Caltech, University of Chicago and Stanford University among others, for undergraduate or graduate studies. Brooklyn Tech counts top scientists, inventors, innovators, CEOs and founders of Fortune 500 companies, high-ranking diplomats, scholars in academia, literary and media figures, professional athletes, National Medal recipients, Nobel laureates, and Olympic medalists among its alumni.
Admission to Brooklyn Tech is based exclusively on an entrance examination, known as the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), open to all eighth and ninth grade New York City students. The test covers math (word problems and computation) and verbal (reading comprehension, logical reasoning, unscrambling paragraphs) skills. Out of the approximately 30,000 students taking the entrance examination for the September 2011 admission round, (with 23,085 students listing Brooklyn Tech as a choice on their application), about 1,951 offers were made (the most out of any of the specialized high schools, partly due to its size), making for an acceptance rate of 8.5%.
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