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Re: Bump
I went to Bronx Science and I think that it hurt us as much as it helped us. A lot of the teachers there were really unmotivated and couldn't care less about their students. While I had some absolutely great teachers who would bend over backwards to make sure that their students understood what was being taught and were interested in it, I also had some teachers where the classes were basically sink or swim. Because Bronx Science is a specialized high school, we ended up getting less funding than other public schools. For things like AP classes, where we got no funding at all, our Parent's Association had to pay for things like books. As a result, the school could only afford to have at most 45 or so kids in an AP class. When we applied to colleges, they would look at our transcripts and be impressed by the fact that we went to Bronx Science, but then they would wonder why we didn't take more AP's than we did. They just didn't understand that in a grade of 650 kids, about 340 of them met the criteria for taking AP's, but the school had room for only 40. Then, the colleges would get transcripts for kids from smaller schools or private schools or suburban public schools where there were more resources for kids to take AP's and be impressed by that. I remember when I first got to college, a lot of my friends were surprised that in high school we even had to apply for AP's.
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