Bronx Science is one of the city's eight elite public high schools that use a single test to determine admissions, drawing 3, 000 students from the five boroughs.

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Though he was enrolled at The Bronx High School of Science, a prestigious New York City public school, attending the school required him to make the long commute to the city's northernmost borough every day.

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