Reviews of Brooklyn Technical High School (School)

Aminata Traore

Someone very close to me attends this school and the horrifying stories I hear of this school is appalling. First I would like to say the students there are very driven to be successful but due to the atmosphere and the amount of work given these kids are seriously depressed, have little time to be social and are given tons of work. There is also a very bad drug problem at this school we’re because kids are depressed they are using drugs to suppress there feelings. These kids that are taking the drugs have the drugs widely available to them through drug dealers (who are also students who are also attending bths) . There has even been countless incidents in which students are selling weed edibles in the lunch room . But the drive that most of the teacher have so make sure there students are learning and there genuine care for them is why I have three stars.

Joanna Ng

I've have a new found experience and the school isn't that bad if you find the things you want to do and love. I unfortunately joined an excellent step team but I quit. And the teachers would want every student to reach as high as they could. The teachers I have aren't half bad compared to some other public school teachers. It's easy to gain what you want if you try hard. I must say this school is more challenging then I thought it was at first. I find a lot of other peers are taking advance courses and these courses have a lot of work. Hey if I can do it you can.

Brandon Keen

Fishes needs to be a part of the curriculum, please re-educate Andres.

khalil

Great school we bleed blue

Bin Bin Bin

I got Diamond 1 in this school.

alex castillo

great school

Syeda Yashria

Stuy high high

kenny jones

Any school is what you make of it. Work hard, show up every day and stay out of trouble. This school will get you into a good college and your life is then set if you avoid drugs and alcohol.

Jack Fang

I mean, this is a great high school!

Departure Clannad

I got offer for this should i go ...? lolzz

Bernard K

Went here. Went to a great state school for college. Got a job at an investment bank, started buying real estate. Thank you for setting me up for the future.

Pran Daneal

I actually miss the toilet vandalisms

John Doe

run... run away while you still can

Max Kuck

Nice

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Alliyah

Played their lacrosse team. Their coach have anger-management problems. Was disrespecting my teammates saying comments like the game was 'none of your business' and 'I didn't ask for your opinion' when a girl tried to help clear up a confusion.

R L

Going to try to make it into the school, taking SHSAT next year hopefully makes it in

minho smile

I’m going 5here in 2-3 years XD

Rose Aboah

Hh

Concrette

Good place good classes some teachers are boring though

Steven Christopher

I attended BTHS from 1965-1969. Absolutely THE BEST education I ever received from any academic institution, and that includes college. A tougher neighborhood back then, still an all male student body, and the two hour commute from Jamaica, Queens to Forte Greene, Brooklyn every school day were obstacles, but in spite of these issues, my decision to test into and stay at Tech until graduation was a great choice!

Denice G.

I'm currently a Junior here-and I'm in the Media Communications major--and I honestly think this is the best school in Brooklyn. The children are soooo nice, the teachers are great (with an exception of 2) and it is so lively. You might I have to put a little bit more work into your homework than other schools, but you learn so much. I LOVE BROOKLYN TECH! #1 School! :D

Per Waardal

My experience at the school was uncommon but it was also unenjoyable. The administration is shockingly unhelpful. Money is in short supply constantly so clubs get the short end of the stick.

The Traceur

This is a great specialized high school.

Larry Cary

I am the president of the Alumni Foundation. Brooklyn Tech is rated 60th in the nation by US News out of nearly 25,000 public high schools. (Ranked higher than Stuyvesant this year.) With over 16 majors for kids to select from in their final two years, you have the ability to intensively study a subject that you are truly interested in. Coursework begins at the college level and goes beyond what AP exams test. Students are trained how to think well and problem solve because emphasis is on giving every student a foundation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, but there are liberal arts majors like Law and Society and College Prep so going to Tech doesn't mean you are locked into a STEM subject as a major. Fantastic learning environment. Terrific facilities and labs. Teachers are among the best. Administration is forward thinking and innovative. The students are unbelievable: excited to learn, way intelligent and nice to each other - that is to say not cut throat competitive but grades do matter to most. Ethnically and racially diverse. Hundreds of students from every background owing to its size (largest public high school in the nation, about 5,500). Most kids qualify for free or subsidized lunch which means no stigma if you are from a poor family like most New Yorkers. Majority are from families that recently immigrated from countries all over the world so wonderful opportunity to get to know others and make friends from different backgrounds and cultures. Huge number of student clubs, activities and athletic teams. Largest and strongest public high school alumni organization in the country which spends more than a $1million a year funding teacher training and projects, student internships, student research opportunities, student activities, lecture series and rebuilds labs and other facilities to make sure that the education offered at Tech is the very best that can be gotten in NYC. Graduates are well received by every college in the country. Tech is the biggest feeder high school in NYC for CUNY Macaulay Honors Program (very selective and free tuition) and sends many graduates to the very most selective colleges in the country like Harvard and MIT. Every graduate is fully college ready and 98% go on to college. Brooklyn Tech is better than it every was, and it was always great.

Daniel Lark

I attended Tech September 1969 to June 1973. Applying to attend Tech was the best decision of my life. The country and my Crown Heights Brooklyn neighborhood was changing May 1968 when the exam for BTHS was given. Back then there were only 3 and you had to chose only one to take the test for. My childhood friends were finding reasons to stop attending Erasmus. I wanted a challenge. Tech gave it. Freshman class of 1,000. You were told that the person to the left and right wouldn't be there in 4 years. You were motivated to work hard to not be that guy that didn't make it. The school went coed my Soph. Year 1971. A lot of those skills I learned were obsolete within a few years (set type on print press, grind tool bit, use Engine lathe, cast molten metal in foundry) made you focus, and are all gone as the NYCEd system continues to abandon Kids with vocational skills if they don't want to go to college

Darren Chen

This school is one of that school that I have sen the best

Steven Lee

Bths class of 2021!!!

Ami Picazo

Great school but the stairs are killing me

Artem Karapetyan

Great institution of learning. Strict but fair teachers. Class selection was great. This high school will prepare you for college =D.

Nazir PerezElder

nooby people

Rafi Chowdhury

i wanna go here because it is my dream high school and the basket ball team looks ok and i heard there are lots of pot heads (is that true)

Dumpster Eater

Garbage, I don’t need to say anymore.

Loredana Malancea

Best high school

yaseen ali

this school is very top School of World I like this school

Organic Pee

somebody once gave me my phone after i dropped it

meme .?

bad school do not go

Chris Ayala

Overcrowded school with crazy students and pot heads.

Shao Pan

Bad

Joe Fields

I was a student at Brooklyn Tech and a member of both the math and track teams. It was the best educational expereince one could experience. After Tech I got a degree from Penn State Summa Cum laude then off for masters and PhD. I started as a Professor at a major university at age 24. From there i produced 40 academic journal articles and edited two journals. I left academics to start a company that I recently sold to a fortune 500 company. That is what Tech is about, being able to take on the toughest problems and learning how to learn. Once you do that the future has no bounds.

Robbe

(Translated by Google) Clean buildings (Original) Schoon gebouwken

Niah LuvsYu

Too big for my liking, but it's not awful academically speaking. Some teachers just need to be re-evaluated.

Daniela Alfonsi

SOSO

Katherine

Im going to be taking the shsat there i hope i have a nice experince with the proctors and the people that give directions

Kestutis Katinas

I graduated BTHS in 1972. I never worked so hard in my life academically as well as physically. I was on the award winning soccer team for three years. The architecture and building construction curriculum was most challenging and extremely rewarding. The neighborhood was rough in the late sixties and early seventies so commuting from Queens was never boring. There was a foundry on the seventh floor. My building construction classroom was three stories high and had a house built inside. What school can top that? I highly recommend this high school.

Tuca

Read a review on here some kid complaining about the elevators. LOL! We weren't allowed to take the elevators. Life is hard, Brooklyn was hard, the struggle was real. Bust your ass, feel the pain and grow into something everyone will be proud of.

AztecClient

I just got accepted today. I heard it's pretty good, and I hope all goes well.

adarsh kumar

Nice

Ronald Deloatch

Probably the best education experience in my life! Looking back, I should have and could have applied myself more and I wish I had taken more extracurricular activities. That being said, I still received a superior education that I still use today. This school prepared me to meet life's challenges and to be resilient. It is also where I learned to question everything; to have a critical eye. These lessons I learned at BTHS, I now pass on to my students.

Sydney Almasy

Brooklyn Technical High School where you can get tech in all your classes.

Arthur Williams

though I didn't get all I should've gotten out of Tech, my memories are still enjoyable... And, my education was unmatched. ;-) all in all, I am extremely glad to have been a part of BTHS during the 70's, and to have been born and raised in the greatest city in the world- New York, New Yorrrkk!

Luba B

Will get you ready for college, well known and respected school.

sky blue

WHY ARE PEOPLE WRITING REVIEWS FROM 1970'S NO ONE CARES!!!!IT WAS DIFFERENT THEN. WE WANT TO KNOW HOW IT IS NOW...

douchebag dude

this school has crackheads i dont feel safe

Mohtasim Rahman

you will hate it while you are there. You will miss it when you are gone. When you are in college you will finally notice what you had. What you had was an eassy time that prepared you kinda for college

Elizaveta Mishina

still was harder than college

Michael Barbier

I graduated from Tech in 1972 after entering as a sophomore and, as was then required, making up the courses that I missed by not being there for my freshman year during the summer between sophomore and junior years. On a good day, my subway commute from upper Manhattan was 60 minutes each way. The school was all male until my senior year when two girls were admitted. The workload was incredibly heavy. In many respects, the school had discipline standards that might be compared to a military school. All in all, for these reasons and others, it was a sacrifice to attend the school. However, standards were high and the education provided was one of the very best in NYC or anywhere. As I recall, nearly 50% of those who entered as freshman transferred back to their local high school before graduating. I "majored" in EE; Electricity/Electronics and found the math and science curriculum and expectations to be extremely demanding. As it turned out, I decided not to pursue engineering and followed a liberal arts path in college. My college experience was a breeze in comparison to, and as a result of, the years that I spent at Tech. The work ethic that I was forced to develop and the self discipline were assets to me in college and beyond. On the downside, because of the distance from my home to the school, combined with the retrograded and often dangerous area where the school was located, it was nearly impossible for me to participate in as many extracurricular activities as I would have liked to. Bottom line - the school was the crown jewel in the NYC education system and deservedly so. Students were proud to attend and graduated with a high school education that would be difficult to equal elsewhere. I moved away from NYC soon after finishing college and, although I have been back to the City many times since, have never had the opportunity to return to visit Tech. It saddens me to read that standards may have been compromised over the years. I hope that is not the case and, if it is, that NYC will do whatever is necessary to bring Tech back to the level where it should be.

James Martin

Disgusting place. At least we aren't Stuyvesant......

bby peach

The school itself is great, just make sure you don't get Mr. Avila for freshman technology course.

John Smarr

In my day we wore a uniform an the challenge was great. However anything good is not easy. It prepared me for life's differences. Most of all coming from disadvantaged neighborhood is still no excuse to complain. If everyone thought that way Americans wouldn't succeed. An our forefathers created a standard thou there is not total transparency in government it gives every color creed sexual identity and opportunity to make it. The American Dream!

John Hui

Very large school, good students and teachers. Won't be much troublesome students, as they would likely be screened out of the school via SHSAT. Also, extremely accessable via public transportation nearby.

Guisela Cornejo

Lost of activities and clubs along with challenging clases. Student can have great education and fun at the same time.

Winston Sori

(Translated by Google) find (Original) helo

Sarmad Amjad

Nice

H Z

Graduated from here. If I had to go back and redo life, I would definitely want to attend this school again.

Sal Alawgari

Great skool

baaad liang

OH MY MOTHER F**KING LORD. THIS PLACE IS S**T

Zura Data

Best Opportunity for everyone

Elio Robles

It's a good school

Search of Abroad

Very large school and good facilities, students are teacher, biggest technical school in the world.

Warren Sze

One of the best.

Dwight Simmons

A good school with good academic standards. One of the specialty schools on NYC

Angel xie

i like the school you get to meet a lot of new people

mahiv emdad

I don't know much about this school because I am a 7th grader at Ms51 but I hear the school is great from a graduate and other people.

Kimberly Servande

Ignore the bad comments below and the stupid rumors they're causing. B-Tech WILL continue on as a specialized school and it is NOT endangered of losing its spot. It is true that Tech was better few years ago but it's still in the top.

Jonathan Cheng

The facilities provided by this school exceeds all other high schools in NY and many other workshops. And the most amazing thing is that students actually get to use these machines. Brooklyn Tech teaches their students how to use full scale industrial CNC milling machines, Haas CNC lathes, band saws, manual lathes, and various hand tools. With these facilities, the students on the robots team are able to fabricate custom part tailored to their robot. Brooklyn Tech's robotics team is an award winning team that is well known throughout the city and state.

MD FAISAL BHUYAN

(Translated by Google) I do not like this school. Brooklyn Tech is very bad. Many children do drus there (Many children do drus there). (Original) No me gusta esta escuela. Brooklyn Tech es muy malo.Muchos niños hacen drus allí(Many children do drus there).

cherry manasseh

Didn't attend school there. However both daughters did. Very good High school. I am grateful for their academic achievements and now they are a Doctor and an Attorney

Katie Moreira

They SHAT is quit very hard and I get that it's supposed to be for like really smart kids but like its really difficult for an 8th grader

matthew kump

WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE