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2020-2021 PROFILE FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION OFFICES CEEB and ACT Code: 070810
THE SCHOOL: Founded in 1890, Choate Rosemary Hall is a coeducational boarding and ALEX D. CURTIS day school for grades 9-12 and postgraduate. Through a rigorous curriculum that combines Head of School breadth of knowledge with signature immersion experiences, Choate is committed to COLLEGE COUNSELING OFFICE enrolling exceptional students from around the country and the world, preparing them T (203) 697-2528 to achieve success in higher education. F (203) 697-2672 MARCIA LANDESMAN STUDENT DIVERSITY: Choate students seek academic excellence in a community that values Director of College Counseling diversity and inclusion. Choate unites creative, passionate, and engaged young people with (203) 697-2817 [email protected] dedicated educators in a diverse but cohesive community. Our current students come to ERIC STAHURA us from 35 states plus the District of Columbia and 36 countries and regions; 39% are Senior Associate Director domestic students of color and 18% are international students. (203) 697-2699 [email protected] CURRENT ENROLLMENT* STUDENTS TIM EASH BOARDING 631 Sixth form = 12th grade; postgraduates Associate Director DAY 236 Fifth form = 11th grade (227 students) (203) 697-2013 [email protected] TOTAL ENROLLMENT 867 Fourth form = 10th grade (224 students) CLASS OF 2021 (Sixth form) 241 Third form = 9th grade (175 students) ANGELA FLYGH Associate Director * as of September 2020 (203) 697-2414 [email protected] IMPACT OF COVID-19: PLEASE REFER TO PAGE 4 OF THIS SCHOOL PROFILE. CLAIRE MINNEMAN Associate Director TRIMESTER SYSTEM: Choate operates on a trimester system. Fall term grades are available (203) 697-2666 [email protected] in late November and serve as our mid-year grades. Winter term grades are available in early MICHELLE THOMPSON-TAYLOR March. Choate’s trimester calendar allows courses to span one, two, or three terms. There Associate Director are a few exceptions of four-term courses (as outlined in the Academic Department Notes), (203) 697-2696 including those for our Science Research Program. Each academic department defines the [email protected] content and appropriate termlength of its course offerings. MO ZELAYA Associate Director DISCIPLINE REPORTING POLICY: All students are expected to answer truthfully questions (203) 697-2142 regarding disciplinary violations. When applicable, it is Choate’s practice to send a follow-up [email protected] letter, cosigned by the student’s form dean and college counselor, which describes the incident MEGAN JACKSON Receptionist/Admin. Assistant and disciplinary response. For disciplinary incidents that occur after college applications (203) 697-2816 have been submitted, students and Choate will follow the same procedure. If applicable, [email protected] subsequent incidents will be reported in the Final Report in June to the college where the SUSANNA STINNETT student matriculates. Office Coordinator/Admin. Assistant COURSE LOAD: Students are expected to carry a course load of five classes per term. With (203) 697-2324 [email protected] permission from the form dean, students may add a sixth course or may audit an elective course. Students in good academic standing may, with approval, take a course on a Pass/Fail basis (assuming all responsibilities for the class). This option is intended to encourage students to broaden their intellectual horizons.
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL 2020-2021 PROFILE 1 DIPLOMA REQUIREMENTS______ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS______To earn a diploma, a student must pass all courses required for a CUM LAUDE SOCIETY: A national honor society, Choate’s diploma, take five courses per term or its equivalent over four years chapter generally includes the top fifth of Choate’s sixth form of high school, pass all courses in the spring term of the sixth form class. Selection is based on academic excellence in a well- year, and complete Choate’s arts, athletic, community service, and balanced college preparatory program, and the character and contemporary global studies requirements. Full year courses carry integrity of each candidate. Induction takes place in May of three credits; term courses carry one credit. each year. A small, highly select group (roughly 5 percent of Requirements by department: the class) is elected into Cum Laude at the conclusion of the ARTS = 3 term courses (one in third form, one in the fourth or fifth fifth form year. form, and one in the sixth form) in two areas: music, theater, dance, or visual arts; DEANS’ LIST: A student who is taking a minimum of five full- ENGLISH = 4 years (one course each term); credit courses and who earns a GPA equal to 3.5 or higher with HPRSS/HISTORY = 1 year of World History for students that enter no grades below “B” is named to the Deans’ List for the term. Choate in the third or fourth form, and 1 year of United States History; HPRSS/RELIGION OR PHILOSOPHY = 1 term course for all students; DIRECTED STUDY: Advanced students who have exhausted the CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL STUDIES = 1 term course for students that enter courses in the regular curriculum and demonstrate talent in a Choate in the third or fourth form; LANGUAGES = 3 years or courses through the third-year level in Arabic, particular area work individually with a teacher on a focused Chinese, French, Latin, or Spanish; or the completion of the AMES program; study project that includes 8-10 hours of guided work each MATHEMATICS = Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II; week for an academic term. SCIENCE = 1 year laboratory course in physical science (physics or chemistry), and 1 year laboratory course in biology; SIGNATURE PROGRAMS: Our rich, diverse, and demanding ATHLETICS = 3 terms of athletics or 2 terms of athletics and 1 term of an academic program includes 300 courses across six academic approved alternate activity per year; departments, including a wide variety of electives, Honors, COMMUNITY SERVICE = 30 hours total for students entering in third or and advanced courses. This comprehensive curriculum fosters fourth form; 20 hours total for students entering in the fifth form; no broad exposure in all disciplines while also offering students an requirement for entering sixth form students or postgraduates opportunity to discover and pursue specific areas of interest. We offer eight Signature Programs, each of which allows GRADE POINT AVERAGE______students the opportunity to pursue a particular area of study Choate’s official grade point average (GPA) is an unweighted with greater focus. Eligibility for each Signature Program varies GPA that is displayed on the transcript. A 4.0 point system is from program to program. Program overviews, including used for the GPA calculation. Music and dance ensembles, with course requirements/descriptions, are located on separate the exception of Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, Signature Program profiles. These profiles are sent to colleges are not factored into the GPA. Courses taken Pass/Fail, Audit, as an attachment to the counselor recommendation for each No Credit are also excluded from the GPA calculation. participating student. The Signature Programs include An unofficialor weighted GPA is calculated by adding fractional the following: points to the grade values to indicate a student’s strength of • Advanced Robotics Concentration (ARC) schedule. A half point is added to each grade earned in an • Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Honors (or previous AP) class and a quarter point is added to • Arts Concentration Program each grade earned in an Advanced class.Weighted GPAs appear only on the Secondary School Report. • Capstone Program • Environmental Immersion Program (EIP) at the Kohler Interpretation of Grades and Grade Point Average Calculation A+ = 4.3 97-100% C+ = 2.3 77-79% Environmental Center (KEC) A = 4.0 93-96% C = 2.0 73-76% • John F. Kennedy ’35 Program in Government and Public A- = 3.7 90-92% C- = 1.7 70-72% Service (JFK) B+ = 3.3 87-89% D+ = 1.3 67-69% • Science Research Program (SRP) B = 3.0 83-86% D = 1.0 63-66% B- = 2.7 80-82% D- = 0.7 60-62% • Study Abroad: China, Italy, France, Jordan, Spain [Summer F = 0 0 - 59% Study Abroad includes China, France, Japan, Jordan, and Spain]
Class of 2021 Fifth Form / 11th grade Class of 2021 Fifth Form / 11th grade OfficialUNWEIGHTED GPA Distribution* (as of September 2020) WEIGHTED GPA Distribution* (as of September 2020) GPA Range # of Students % of Class Note: Choate does not rank. GPA Range # of Students % of Class 4.30 - 4.00 34 15.04% We report fifth form year GPA 4.70 - 4.25 63 27.88% 3.99 - 3.75 95 42.04% distribution only (not cumulative 4.24 - 4.00 61 26.99% 3.74 - 3.50 56 24.78% GPA) since students matriculate 3.99 - 3.75 52 23.01% 3.49 - 3.25 30 13.27% at the third, fourth, or fifthform 3.74 - 3.50 29 12.83% 3.24 - and below 11 4.87% year.This distribution does not 3.49 and below 21 9.29% Total 226 100.00% include PG students and one-year Total 226 100.00% * Choate adopted a P/D/F grading scale for the 2020 Spring term; sixth formers. * Choate adopted a P/D/F grading scale for the 2020 Spring term; therefore, Spring term grades were not calculated into students’ therefore, Spring term grades were not calculated into students’ unweighted and weighted GPAs unweighted and weighted GPAs CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL 2020-2021 PROFILE 2 CLASS OF 2020 STANDARDIZED TESTING PROFILE______2020 AP SCORES Total number of AP tests: 474 % of tests scoring 4 or 5: 78% % of tests scoring 3 and above: 93% SAT Summary Middle 50% Mean ACT Summary Middle 50% Mean ERW 650-740 693 English 33-35 33.3 NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM CLASS OF 2020 Math 650-770 704 Math 28-34 30.4 National Merit Scholarship Program: Total 1300-1510 1397 Reading 31-36 32.5 10 Finalists Students Tested: 166 Science Reasoning 28-33 30.6 11 Semifinalists Composite 30-34 31.6 25 Commended Students Tested: 114 National Hispanic Recognition Program: 3 Scholars
IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, THREE OR MORE GRADUATES HAVE ENROLLED IN THE FOLLOWING COLLEGES:
American University...... 4 Georgia Institute of Technology...... 3 Tulane University...... 13 Amherst College...... 19 Gettysburg College...... 5 Union College...... 5 Babson College...... 9 Hamilton College...... 8 United States Naval Academy...... 3 Bard College...... 5 Harvard University...... 27 University of California, Berkeley...... 7 Barnard College...... 15 Harvey Mudd College...... 3 University of California, Los Angeles...... 5 Bates College...... 18 Hobart and William Smith Colleges...... 7 University of Chicago...... 39 Bentley University...... 5 Johns Hopkins University...... 10 University of Colorado, Boulder...... 6 Boston College...... 35 Lafayette College...... 14 University of Connecticut...... 14 Boston University...... 15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology...... 6 University of Maryland, College Park...... 3 Bowdoin College...... 7 Middlebury College...... 20 University of Miami...... 5 Brown University...... 29 Muhlenberg College...... 3 University of Michigan...... 16 Bucknell University...... 8 New York University...... 47 University of Notre Dame...... 7 Carleton College...... 3 Northeastern University...... 20 University of Pennsylvania...... 28 Carnegie Mellon University...... 11 Northwestern University...... 9 University of Southern California...... 17 Case Western Reserve University...... 3 Oberlin College...... 5 University of Vermont...... 7 Chapman University...... 3 Ohio State University...... 3 University of Virginia...... 5 Claremont McKenna College...... 8 Pitzer College...... 7 Vanderbilt University...... 5 Colby College...... 12 Pomona College...... 7 Vassar College...... 3 Colgate University...... 16 Princeton University...... 13 Wake Forest University...... 3 College of the Holy Cross...... 8 Providence College...... 3 Washington and Lee University...... 4 Colorado College...... 6 Reed College...... 4 Washington University in St. Louis...... 15 Columbia University...... 41 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...... 6 Wellesley College...... 8 Connecticut College...... 7 Santa Clara University...... 4 Wesleyan University...... 6 Cornell University...... 23 Scripps College...... 6 Williams College...... 16 Dartmouth College...... 21 Skidmore College...... 8 Yale University...... 53 Denison University...... 4 Smith College...... 3 International Universities Dickinson College...... 3 Southern Methodist University...... 7 McGill University...... 3 Drexel University...... 3 St. Lawrence University...... 5 University of Edinburgh...... 4 Duke University...... 14 Stanford University...... 10 University of Oxford...... 3 Emory University...... 7 Swarthmore College...... 3 University of St Andrews...... 11 Fordham University...... 9 Syracuse University...... 13 University of Toronto...... 4 Georgetown University...... 26 Trinity College...... 9 George Washington University...... 22 Tufts University...... 16
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL 2020-2021 PROFILE 3 MISSION______
Two interwoven priorities define the Choate experience: a rigorous academic curriculum and an emphasis on the formation of character in a residential setting that allows for teachers and students to live with, and learn from, each other in important ways. The curriculum inspires students to: • Think critically and to communicate clearly • Understand various methods of intellectual inquiry and their connections to each other • Recognize the interconnections of learning • Work independently and in partnership with others • Develop a global perspective on cultural, social, political, and environmental issues • Appreciate the importance of beauty and grace in their lives • Achieve distinction in accordance with their individual interests and talents • In these ways, students are prepared to seek knowledge for its own sake and to pursue further study at the finest colleges and universities. The development of character is a responsibility that rests with every member of the community. In classrooms, on playing fields, in residential houses, students grow in confidence and self-esteem, and are instilled with such fundamental values as honesty, integrity, teamwork, generosity, and compassion toward others. Choate also fosters community involvement and service as it prepares students to assume leadership roles in an ever-changing world. As part of its commitment to character formation, the School offers regular community-wide reflections on moral and spiritual issues, as well as exposure to various religious traditions. Choate attracts intellectually gifted and motivated students from diverse backgrounds whose commitment to serious study is enhanced in this personally supportive and academically challenging setting. On a campus that inspires a particular sensitivity to beauty, teachers — who share genuine respect and affection for young people — impart an enthusiasm for life and for learning. Choate is confident that its graduates will go forth from a school that values each of them for their particular talents and enthusiasms; that affirms the importance of personal integrity and a sense of self-worth; that inspires and nourishes joy in learning and love of truth; and that provides the intellectual stimulation to generate independent thought, confident expression, and a commitment to improve the welfare of others.
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