231 W. 246th Street Bronx, 10471 HORACE MANN SCHOOL 718-432-4160 School Profile 2011-12 Fax 718-432-3624 CEEB Code: 333700 Horace Mann School was founded in 1887 as a coeducational, experimental www.horacemann.org and developmental unit of Teachers College at . Horace Mann School for Boys moved to the Riverdale neighborhood of Bronx, New Thomas M. Kelly York, in 1912, and during the 1940s, severed formal ties with Teachers College Head of School and became Horace Mann School. Horace Mann School for Girls remained at Teachers College through the 1940s. Since the 1970s we have educated boys David Schiller and girls in Nursery through . Our main campus, home to the Lower, Head of Upper Division Middle and Upper Divisions, is located on 18 acres in neighborhood of Riverdale. The Nursery Division is located in . The John Dorr Nature Canh Oxelson Laboratory, our pioneering outdoor education center, is located on 275 acres in Director of College Counseling Washington, Connecticut. Since its founding, Horace Mann has changed in many 718-432-3871 ways but remains steadfastly dedicated to five core values: The Life of the Mind, [email protected] Mature Behavior, Mutual Respect, A Secure and Healthful Environment, and A E. Thomas Katzenbach Balance Between Individual Achievement and A Caring Community. Sr. Assoc. Director of College Counseling 718-432-3877 HORACE MANN SCHOOL AT A GLANCE [email protected] ##Founded in 1887 Amber N. Long ##Governed by an honor code Assoc. Director of College Counseling 718-432-3875 ##18-acre campus in the Riverdale neighborhood of Bronx, NY [email protected] ##30-minute subway ride to Midtown Manhattan ##Accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) Elizabeth Pili Assoc. DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE COUNSELING STUDENTS: FACULTY: 718-432-3885 ##Highly selective admissions ##121 teaching faculty [email protected] ##732 students in the Upper Division ##89 with advanced degrees (up to M.A.) ##47% girls, 53% boys ##32 with doctorates Barbara Billies ##34% Students of Color ##Average class size: 16 Administrative Assistant 718-432-4160 ##From 152 different ZIP Codes [email protected] ##17% on need-based financial aid

ACADEMIC PROGRAM AND DIPLOMA REQUIREMENTS: Linda Dowling Administrative Assistant ##Trimester system 718-432-4160 ##Over 175 courses offered in nine disciplines [email protected] ##21 Advanced Placement courses and 26 Honors courses ##Students limited to five major courses per trimester ##Students limited to three AP courses per trimester ##Students are required to complete a minimum of 80 hours of community service ##Study abroad opportunities ##Independent Study Program and Senior Initiative Project HORACE MANN SCHOOL AT A GLANCE TRANSCRIPT: GRADES—Class of 2012 As a matter of school policy, students are not ranked, nor is a All grades, including those earned in Advanced Placement or GPA calculated. Full credit courses are referred to as “major” Honors courses are unweighted. Although Horace Mann School subjects, and half-credit courses are called “minor” subjects. The does not compute or publish class rankings, we do publish a only subjects that have been posted on the transcript for Grade 8 grade distribution based on classes taken in all major courses for are those major subjects taught at Horace Mann that have been grades 9 through 11. The following table of statistics applies to given high school-level credit at some universities in the admis- the 172 members of the Class of 2012. sions process. These courses usually have been the first year of high school foreign language (e.g., Spanish 1) and/or mathemat- Honors (above 4.3) A+ 0% of class ics (Algebra 1). Horace Mann Summer School courses taken at Honors (4.29-4.0) A 2% of class the High School level following the end of 8th grade will be en- Honors (3.99-3.67) A- 23% of class tered on the transcript. Please note that an “x” next to a grade Very Good to Good (3.66-3.33) B+ 33% of class signifies a Summer School course. Very Good to Good (3.32-3.0) B 25% of class Very Good to Good (2.99-2.67) B- 12% of class REQUIRED GRADUATION CREDITS: Satisfactory (2.66-2.33) C+ 4% of class English 4 Satisfactory (2.32-2.0) C 1% of class Foreign Language 3 Satisfactory (1.9-1.0) C- 0% of class Mathematics 3 Passing but marginal D 0% of class History 2 Failing F 0% of class Science 2 Physical Education 4 SAT SUMMARY—Class of 2012: Computing & Communications 2 SECTION Middle 50% Range Mean Counseling & Guidance 2 Critical Reading 660-760 707 Arts 1½ Math 650-760 700

ADVANCED PLACEMENT: Writing 680-780 719 Departmental approval and strong academic standing are ACT SUMMARY—Class of 2012: required for all students who wish to enroll in an AP class. In the spring trimester of 2011, 293 students took one or more SECTION Middle 50% Mean AP exams for a total of 672 exams. There were 456 (68%) with English 31-35 32.4 scores of four or higher, and 565 (84%) with scores of three Math 29-34 31.5 or higher. AP courses are offered to juniors and seniors, and a Reading 31-34 31.6 student may take no more than three per trimester. Students are permitted to take AP exams without having taken a cor- Science Reasoning 27-33 30.1 responding AP course. Composite 30-33 31.4

COURSES OF STUDY

ENGLISH Introduction to Statistics and Physics AP French Language English 9 Probability Physics Honors AP French Literature English 10 AP Statistics Selected Topics in Physics Topics in French English 11 Senior Math Elective: Analysis of *Science Research *Greek and Latin Roots of English Senior Electives Games, Fractals, Formal Logic *Italian 1, 2, 3 AP English and Calculator Programming COMPUTER Japanese 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Math Seminar *Introduction to Computer Science Japanese Honors 3, 4, 5, 6 MATHEMATICS *Computer Science 2 AP Japanese Algebra 1 and Problem Solving SCIENCE *Senior Technology Seminar Latin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Geometry Biology *Digital Publishing *Intermediate Latin B, C, D Geometry Honors Chemistry *Web Design 1, 2 Latin Honors 3, 4, 5 Algebra 2 and Trigonometry Integrated Biology and Chemistry 1, 2 *Media and Culture Latin Epic Poetry Algebra 2 and Trigonometry Honors AP Biology *Logic Circuits and Robotics Latin Lyric Poetry Precalculus AP Chemistry AP Computer Science AB AP Latin: Epic Poetry Precalculus AB AP Environmental Science Spanish 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Precalculus BC Honors AP Physics with Calculus FOREIGN LANGUAGE Spanish Honors 2, 3, 4 Contemporary Calculus Biotechnology of Human Genetics *Introductory Chinese 1, 2, 3, 4 AP Spanish Language AP Calculus AB Topics in Biology French 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 AP Spanish Literature AP Calculus BC Honors Experiments in Physics and Pre-AP French Language Spanish Seminar Chemistry French Honors 2, 3, 4, 5 COURSES OF STUDY (continued)

HISTORY *History of Jazz HISTORY OF ART COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE The Atlantic World History *History of Opera AP Art History—The Modern *Horace Mann Orientation (HMO) United States History *Music and Technology World *Health Education AP United States History *Music Theory 1 *Introduction to Art History— *Quest AP Modern European History *Orchestra The Ancient World Introduction to Psychology AP World History String Sinfonietta *History of Contemporary Art AP Psychology Contemporary U.S. History, *Glee Club *The Art of the Film Ethics in School and Society 1960-2007 *Jazz Combo *Studies in Art History East Asian History *Steel Drum Ensemble *History of Photography PHYSICAL EDUCATION Religion in History *Chamber and Symphonic Winds *The Renaissance *Concepts of Physical Fitness/ United States Legal History Lifesports Global Conflict—History Seminar THEATRE ARTS STUDIO ART *Dance Workshop American Government and Politics Seminar in Acting *Ceramics 1, 2 *Varsity Physical Education Topics in Political Philosophy *Introduction to Classical Theatre *Advanced Ceramics 1, 2 *Adult CPR/AED and First Aid Economics—History Through *Acting and Directing Honors Ceramics *Out-of-School and Athletic the Lens *Playwriting and Production *Drawing and Painting 1, 2 Contracts AP Economics Introduction to Modern European *Advanced Drawing and Painting 2 History of India and American Theatre Honors Drawing and Painting SPECIAL POLICY ON *Performance in Major Theatre AP Studio Art ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE MUSIC and Dance Productions *Photography 1, 2 All matters of discipline are han- AP Music Theory *Stagecraft in School Advanced Photography 1, 2 dled by the Discipline Committee Music Performance Seminar *Stagecraft after School Honors Photography which is overseen by the Head of *History of Music *Theatre Design and Production *Printmaking 1, 2 the Upper School and Dean of *A Study of the History of *Dance in Historical and Cultural *Advanced Printmaking 1, 2 Student Life. All issues pertaining Film Music Perspective Honors Printmaking to discipline will be reported to *Great Music of the 20th Century *Film Studies: Screenplay, *Introduction to Sculpture colleges accordingly. *History of American Cinematography, Direction *Sculpture 2 Musical Theatre *Dance Workshop 1, 2, 3 *Advanced Sculpture 1, 2 *Video Production * half-credit courses

KEY TO HORACE MANN ENGLISH ELECTIVES 2011-2012

English 021 Metamorphosis: The Novella English 056 Literature & Film 2 English 022 Living Poets English 057 Non Fiction Writing Workshop English 023 Experimental Writing English 058 Women Writing the Future English 024 American Women’s Voices English 059 Poets of Moment English 025 Literature & Film English 060 Shakespeare Creates the Modern Personality English 026 The Art of Comedy English 061 Writing English 027 Modern Drama English 062 Born in Blood English 028 Utopia/Dystopia English 063 Renaissance Women English 029 Dickens English 064 Poetry Writing English 030 Dubliners and the Critics English 066 Chaucer English 031 The Contemporary Poetry & Poetics Project English 067 British Romanticism: English 032 Virginia Woolf English 068 Writings for Sylvia Plath English 033 Ain’t I a Woman English 069 Meet the Beats English 034 The Harlem Renaissance English 070 The Bible as Literary Text English 035 Asian and Asian American Literature English 071 American Stories English 036 Writing Nature: Writing Ourselves English 072 Thinking Writing (The Essay) English 037 Paradise Lost English 075 The Black Arts Movement English 038 Emily Dickinson English 077 Shakespeare in the Genres English 039 Dostoevsky English 080 James Joyce English 040 Creative Writing English 082 Topics in Post War African-American Literature English 041 Not Just Knaves and Wenches English 083 Man Underground English 042 Cultural Perspective English 084 Rebellion & its Discontents English 043 Always Be Closing: The Work of David Mamet English 085 Text and the City English 045 Shakespeare English 086 The Big Book: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest English 046 On Trial English 087 Writing Women Warriors English 047 New York Poets English 088 Greek Drama English 048 The Faces of Tragedy English 089 Disease, Deformity & Monstrosity in Literature English 049 Tolstoy English 090 Chaucer’s Comic Tales English 050 Thomas Hardy English 093 Dante English 051 The Iliad of Homer English 094 Shakespeare: Nature & Art English 052 The Many Faces of India English 095 Toni Morrison English 053 The Short Story English 096 The Art of Reading English 054 Madness and the Literary Imagination English 097 Gender in the Middle Ages English 055 Bad Guys, Spies, & Private Guys English 098 the Merchant of Venice Between 2007 and 2011 Horace Mann students were accepted by the following colleges and universities. An asterisk (*) by the name of an institution indicates that at least one member of the Class of 2011 currently attends that college or university.

University of Aberdeen Connecticut College Lafayette College Peabody Institute Johns Hopkins SUNY, Buffalo U Adelphi University University of Connecticut Lake Forest College University SUNY, Fredonia University of Alabama Cooper Union Le Moyne College Pennsylvania State University SUNY, Geneseo Alfred University Cornell University* Lehigh University University of Pennsylvania* SUNY, Maritime Allegheny College Dartmouth College* , CUNY University of Pittsburgh SUNY, New Paltz American University* Davidson College Lewis & Clark College Pitzer College SUNY, Stony Brook Southampton American University of Paris University of Delaware Long Island University, C.W. Post Pomona College* SUNY, Stony Brook American Intl. University in Dickinson College Loyola Marymount University Pratt Institute* Stetson University London Drake University Loyola University Maryland Princeton University* Susquehanna University Amherst College* Drew University Loyola University New Orleans Providence College University of Sussex Arizona State University Drexel University Lynn University University of Puget Sound Swarthmore College* University of Arizona Duke University* Macalester College Purchase College* Syracuse University Auburn University Earlham College Macaulay Honors College at Purdue University* University of Tampa Babson College Eckerd College CUNY* Queens College CUNY University of Texas, Austin* Bard College* Eastman School of Music University of Maine Quinnipiac University University of Toronto Barnard College* University of Edinburgh* Manhattanville College University of Redlands Trinity College* Bates College* Emerson College Mannes College of Music Reed College Tufts University* Beloit College Emily Carr University of University of Mary Washington Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute* Tulane University* Bennington College Art & Design Maryland Institute College of Art* Rhode Island School of Design* Union College Bentley University Emory University* University of Maryland, University of Rhode Island United States Air Force Academy Berklee College of Music* Eugene Lang College, College Park Rice University United State Military Academy* Binghamton University The New School University* Marymount University of Richmond* University of the Arts, London Boston College* Evergreen State College Massachusetts College of Rider University University of Oxford Boston University* University of Exeter Art & Design Rochester Institute of Technology Ursinus College Bowdoin College Fairfield University Massachusetts Institute of University of Rochester Vanderbilt University* Brandeis University * Technology Roger Williams University Vassar College University of British Columbia Franklin and Marshall College University of Massachusetts Rollins College University of Vermont* University of Bristol (UK) Furman University McGill University Rose-Hulman Institute of Villanova University Brown University* The George Washington Miami University, Oxford Technology Virginia Commonwealth University Bryn Mawr University* University of Miami* Royal Holloway, University of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & Bucknell University Georgetown University* Michigan State University London State U. Butler University Georgia Institute of Technology University of Michigan* Rutgers University* University of Virginia Cabrini College Gettysburg College Middlebury College* St. John’s University, Queens Wake Forest University University of California, Berkeley University of Glasgow University of Missouri St. Joseph’s University Washington State University University of California, Goucher College Morehouse College St. Lawrence University Washington University in Los Angeles Grinnell College* Mount Holyoke College St. Michaels College St. Louis* University of California, Guilford College Muhlenberg College San Francisco State University University of Washington Santa Barbara Hamilton College* The New School University San Jose State University Wellesley College* California Institute of Technology Hampshire College New England Conservatory University of San Francisco Wesleyan University* California Institute of the Arts Hampton University of Music* Santa Clara University Wheaton College IL California State Polytechnic Hanover College University of New Hampshire Sarah Lawrence College* Wheaton College MA* University University of Hartford The College of New Jersey* Savannah College of Art & Design Whitman College Canisius College Harvard University* * School of the Art Institute of Whittier College Carleton College* Harvey Mudd College University of North Carolina Chicago College of William & Mary Carnegie Mellon University* Haverford College Chapel Hill School of Visual Arts Williams College* Case Western Reserve University* High Point University University of North Carolina, Scripps College University of Wisconsin Cedar Crest College Hobart and William Smith Colleges Greensboro Seton Hall University The College of Wooster Champlain College Hofstra University University of North Carolina, Skidmore College Worcester Polytechnic Institute College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross Wilmington Smith College* Xavier University University of Chicago* Howard University University North Carolina School Sophie Davis School of Yale University* City College of New York Hult International Business School of the Arts* Biomed. Educ. Claremont McKenna College* Hunter College, CUNY Northeastern University University of South Carolina Clark University Indiana University Northwestern University* University of Southern California* Clark Atlanta University Iona College University of Notre Dame Southern Methodist University Clarkson University University of Iowa University of Nottingham Southern New Hampshire Cleveland Institute of Art Ithaca College Oberlin College* University Coe College James Madison University Oberlin Conservatory of Music Southern Vermont College Colby College* Johns Hopkins University* Occidental College* University of St. Andrews (UK)* Colgate University* Johnson & Wales University Oglethorpe University Spelman College University of Colorado at Boulder Juilliard School Ohio State University Stanford University* Colorado College Kalamazoo College* Ohio Wesleyan University SUNY, Albany Colorado State University University of Kent at Canterbury University of Oregon SUNY, Alfred State College Columbia University* Kenyon College* University of Oxford SUNY, Brockport Concordia University King’s College London Pace University NYC SUNY, Buffalo State College