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Upper School Profile: 2017-18

Mark C. Hale, Head of School Greensboro Day School, founded in 1970, is an independent, nonsectarian Edward Billingslea, Upper School Director PK-12 institution established to provide the best possible college Jennifer Ford, Upper School Assistant Director/College Counselor preparation for youth of either gender without regard to race, color, creed, [email protected] or national origin. As stated in the school’s mission statement, Greensboro Tammy Alt, Director of College Counseling Day School develops the intellectual, ethical, and interpersonal foundations [email protected] students need to become constructive contributors to the world. Margaret Brown, Asst. Director of College Counseling and Student Life [email protected] Caroline Paris, College Counseling Assistant For the year 2017-18 the enrollment is approximately 785 students. The [email protected] school is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Susan Doss, Registrar and the Southern Association of Independent Schools. [email protected] The Honor Code is an important part of the culture at Greensboro Day School. To foster a community of mutual trust and respect, students and faculty sign a pledge each year not to lie, cheat, or steal, or accept the actions of those who do.

THE UPPER SCHOOL FAST FACTS skills necessary for a successful college search. Each student is assigned a college counselor in the 10th grade, and the student’s self-discovery process Enrollment in Grades 9-12: 314 is nurtured further with guidance from the counselors. Finally, in the Average class size: 12.7 11th and 12th grades, students have developed critical thinking, effective communication, self-advocacy, and relationship building skills that will enable them to seek colleges that will be good fits, and to be successful in FACULTY AND STAFF college life and beyond. 47 full-time equivalent Nationally recruited WINTER TERM 31 with master’s degrees, 3 with doctorates The Winter Term is an innovative program held in the Upper School for Full-time guidance counselor, learning resource specialist, technology eight instructional days after the Winter Break. Winter Term courses specialist provide intensive study not possible during the semester class periods, and may include travel, fieldwork, hands-on study, or service learning. CURRICULUM Students earn grades and academic credit for their Winter Term courses. 115 courses 31 advanced SPECIAL PROGRAM FEATURES 20 AP courses Laptop/iPad Program: All students in grades 1-12 use iPads and laptops 1 post-AP level throughout the curriculum. Opportunities for independent study and approved online courses Senior Project: All seniors participate in a self-designed project during the through Fuel Education®. last five weeks of the school year. Students complete 30 hours per week of fieldwork or an internship, followed by a presentation of their work. PERFORMING ARTS The student’s work in planning, executing, and presenting the project is Over 40% involved in music and/or drama performances each year evaluated by a team of teachers. Academic advising system with 1:10 teacher:student ratio ATHLETICS Student leadership/teamwork/community service opportunities through 18 80% of students participate in at least one team sport clubs, student government and service-learning programs that enhance 12 varsity girls’ and 11 varsity boys’ teams the curriculum and support the mission of Greensboro Day School. COLLEGE COUNSELING Greensboro Day School offers a College Counseling curriculum for grades 9-12. In the 9th grade, the college counseling staff connects with students through classes and other activities to establish relationships and to teach

Greensboro Day School . 5401 Lawndale Drive . Greensboro, NC 27455 . www.greensboroday.org . 336.288.8590 . (Fax) 336.282.2905 GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS # ADVANCED-LEVEL MINIMUM GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS DISCIPLINE AREA COURSES OFFERED 1.0 credit = Full year, Minimum required total: 21 credits Advanced AP/Post AP English 4 credits; 1 each in grades 9-12, English 9 required 5 2

Math 3 credits; Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II required 6 4 3 credits: Global Perspectives, U.S. History, and 1 credit from any Hist/Soc Sci course(s) in 10th-12th grades. Class of 2018: Historical Perspectives does not count History/Social Sciences toward this requirement. 0 5

Science 3 laboratory-course credits; Physics, Chemistry, Biology required 6 3

World Languages 3 credits through at least level III, at least 3 years in the Upper School 12 3

Arts (music, art, drama) 1 credit in any arts courses 3 3

Physical Education 1 credit; Health and Wellness (0.5 credit) required 0 0 Senior Project No credit; required of all seniors 0 0

ACADEMIC PROFILE – CLASS OF 2018 The class of 2018 includes 76 students. The test information listed below is based upon the students’ highest scores achieved as of June 2017.

RANGE MIDDLE 50% RANGE AVERAGE # INCLUDED

WEIGHTED AVERAGE 79-102 89-96 92.2 74

UNWEIGHTED AVERAGE 79-97 88-93 90.1 74

SAT: READING 410-750 570-680 615 66

SAT: MATH 440-800 580-720 644 66

SAT: TOTAL R + M 850-1550 1160-1380 1258 66

ACT: COMPOSITE 15-35 23-29 26 45

JUNIOR YEAR GRADE DISTRIBUTION – CLASS OF 2018

COURSE A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D/F TOTAL Algebra II 0 1 2 0 0 5 0 6 1 4 19 Arts Courses 23 16 4 3 3 2 1 0 0 0 52 Biology 1 4 4 5 2 0 1 0 0 0 17 Biology ADV 4 29 15 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 49 English 11 3 7 7 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 21 English Language AP 8 38 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 57 Precalculus 0 3 4 8 6 1 4 1 0 0 27 Precalculus ADV 0 3 0 12 4 2 0 1 0 0 22 US History 8 20 7 5 4 3 2 0 0 0 49 US History AP 0 1 8 5 7 2 2 0 0 0 25 World Language Courses 3 19 19 12 11 7 1 2 1 1 76 ACADEMIC COURSES AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) INFORMATION Greensboro Day School offers a rigorous college preparatory curriculum. All of the courses are taught at the honors level. Advanced courses are marked as (ADV), and are offered for students who show a special interest in and aptitude for achievement in a particular subject. Students must have teacher recommendations and must meet appropriate pre-requisites to enroll in ADV or Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Students who are enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) courses are required to take the College Board’s AP exam at the end of the year.

Listed below are statistics regarding AP and advanced courses taken: Number of students who took AP exams in May 2017 146 Number of AP exams taken in May 2017 372 Percentage of AP exam grades of 3, 4, or 5 71% Percentage of AP exam grades of 4 or 5 42% Number of students in Class of 2018 who have taken AP courses 71 of 76 Average number of Advanced courses taken per student in Class of 2018 6 Average number of AP courses taken per student in Class of 2018 4 ADVANCED, AP, AND POST-AP COURSES OFFERED AT GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL: WORLD LANGUAGES •ADV: French IV; French V; French VI-Language and Culture; Latin II; Latin III; ENGLISH Latin Literature: The Age of Cicero; Latin Literature: The Augustan Age; Spanish •ADV: English 9; English 10: Global Perspectives; Defining the Standard: IV; Spanish Conversation, Composition & Culture: Latinos en los Estados Unidos; Stereotypes in Literature; Words of Change: Social Change in Literature and Film; Spanish Conversation, Composition & Culture: Social Issues; Spanish V; Latin- Imaginative Composition II American and Peninsular Spanish Literature; Creative Writing: Intro to Spanish •AP: English Language; English Literature Narrative; Creative Writing: Modernism to Vanguardism •AP: French VI-Language and Culture; Latin; Spanish Language, Spanish MATHEMATICS Literature •ADV: Geometry; Algebra II; Precalculus; Intro to Calculus; Intro to Statistics •AP: Statistics; AB Calculus; BC Calculus ARTS •Post-AP: Post-AP Mathematics Opportunities •ADV: Concert Band, Chorus, String Ensemble •AP: Studio Art-Drawing, Studio Art-2D Design, Studio Art-3D Design HISTORY & SOCIAL SCIENCES •AP: History; Macro-Microeconomics; United States Government Computer Science and Politics; Psychology; World History •AP: Computer Science A (online)

SCIENCE ONLINE COURSES •ADV: Physics; Chemistry; Biology; Engineering •Students may enroll in online AP courses with the approval of their •AP: Physics C; Chemistry; Biology advisor, parent, and the Upper School Director.

NUMERICAL MARKING SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPT NOTES LETTER GRADE RANGE • Greensboro Day School uses a traditional “100-point” marking system, 97-100 A+ and reports grades and averages on the 100-point scale. 93-96 A • The passing grade is 60. 90-92 A- • Averages are calculated from numeric grades for all credit courses taken 87-89 B+ at Greensboro Day School. 83-86 B • Weighted averages (Year and Cum Avg Weighted): 10 points are added to each AP or Post-AP course grade; 5 points are added to each ADV 80-82 B- course grade in computing weighted averages. The course grades 77-79 C+ shown on the transcript do not include the weighted points. 70-76 C/C- • Greensboro Day School does not compute class rank. 60-69 D+/D/D- • Greensboro Day School notes the following semester honors on 50-59 F transcripts: Head’s List (semester unweighted average greater than 89) and Honor Roll (semester unweighted average between 85 and 89.) • If needed, grades may be equated to letter grades as indicated on the chart to the right.

As a member of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, Greensboro Day School, will report student conduct records to colleges, including, but not limited to, serious disciplinary violations, honor violations, probation, suspension and dismissal. COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE AND MATRICULATION The Class of 2017 (85 students) submitted 605 college applications, received 325 acceptances (54%), and matriculated at colleges in 3 different countries and 16 different states. Members of the Classes of 2015-2017 were offered admission to the following colleges and universities; parentheses indicate the number enrolled.

In Fordham University University of Arizona Appalachian State University (8) Franklin & Marshall College (1) University of British Columbia (Canada) (2) Furman University (4) University of California, Berkeley (1) Georgetown University (2) University of California, Davis Georgia Institute of Technology (3) University of California, Irvine Cape Fear Community College (2) Gettysburg College (1) University of California, Los Angeles (4) University of California, San Diego (4) Grinnell College University of California, Santa Barbara East (2) Hampden-Sydney College (1) University of California, Santa Cruz (12) Hampton University University of Chicago Gardner-Webb University Haverford College (1) University of Colorado at Boulder Greensboro College (3) Hobart and William Smith Colleges University of Delaware (1) Hofstra University (1) Guilford Technical Community College Howard University (1) University of Florida (8) Illinois Wesleyan University University of Georgia (2) Indiana University at Bloomington University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (3) (1) Iowa State University University of Iowa North Carolina A&T State University (1) Jacksonville University (1) University of Kansas North Carolina Central University (2) University of Kentucky North Carolina State University (19) Kenyon College University of Louisville Queens University of Charlotte (2) Lehigh University University of Maryland,College Park (1) University of North Carolina at Asheville (1) Lewis & Clark College University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (25) Liberty University (1) University of Massachusetts, of North Carolina at Charlotte (6) Loyola University Chicago University of Melbourne (Australia) University of North Carolina at Greensboro (6) Loyola University New Orleans University of Miami (1) University of North Carolina at Wilmington (4) Macalester College University of Michigan University of North Carolina School of the Arts (1) Marist College University of Mississippi (1) (5) Maryland Institute College of Art (1) University of Nebraska Western Carolina University (2) Miami University, Oxford University of Oklahoma (1) Michigan State University University of Pittsburgh (1) Millikin University (1) University of Richmond Montana State University, Bozeman University of Rochester (2) Outside North Carolina New York University (2) University of South Carolina (9) Northeastern University University of St. Andrews (Scotland) (1) Amherst College (1) Northern Arizona University University of Sydney (Australia) (1) (3) University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2) Arizona State University Oberlin College (1) University of Texas Auburn University (5) University of Toledo (1) Babson College Oklahoma State University University of Toronto (Canada) Baylor University Pennsylvania State University (1) (1) Belmont University (2) Pepperdine University University of Washington Binghamton University Piedmont College University of Wisconsin, Madison Birmingham-Southern College Presbyterian College (2) Ursinus College Boston College (1) Purdue University Vanderbilt University (3) Boston University Queen’s University (Canada) (1) Bowdoin College Villanova University (1) Brandeis University (1) Rhodes College (1) Virginia Commonwealth University Bryn Mawr College Virginia Military Institute (1) Bucknell University (1) Rochester Institute of Technology Virginia Tech (3) Carleton College Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Washington and Jefferson College Carnegie Mellon University (1) -New Brunswick Washington and Lee University Case Western Reserve University Saint Michael’s College Washington University in St. Louis (2) Centre College (1) Salisbury University Christopher Newport University Samford University Western Michigan University Clark University Santa Clara University Western University (Canada) Clemson University (3) Savannah College of Art and Design (1) Wheaton College Coastal Carolina University Sewanee: The University of the South Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) College of Charleston (1) College of William and Mary Worchester Polytechnic Institute Colorado College (2) Southern Methodist University (1) Xavier University Colarado State University (1) Southern Wesleyan University Yale University (1) Columbia College St. Olaf College (1) Stanford University (1) Cornell University (1) Stetson University Dartmouth College (2) Swarthmore College (1) Denison University DePaul University (1) Temple University (1) Texas Christian University (1) The George Washington University (1) Emerson College (1) The Ohio State University Emory & Henry College Tufts University (1) (5) University of Akron (2) University of Alabama (1)